The pandemic sent Troye Sivan back to Melbourne and a life alone. Now comes his best music yet. douglasgrnwd reports
Photo: Tim Ashton In February, Troye Sivan was hunkered down in his studio in Los Angeles refining a project that captures what has felt like the most intense period of his life. Titled In A Dream, it’s a six-track EP shaped by heartbreak, conflicted feelings about his own body image, and what happens when the comforting familiarity of a future with someone is suddenly cut short.
Sivan has remained at his childhood home in the months since, wanting to be close to family and a familiar medical system. After a brief few weeks of monitored freedom — spent mostly at the beach with his childhood friends and recording a music video for “Easy,” another new track — a spike in coronavirus cases forced the metropolitan Melbourne area back into lockdown. It’s currently in stage four. People may only leave the house to buy groceries or for one hour of permitted exercise a day.
It took writing through heartbreak for him to fully recalibrate. His eyes flit from one corner of his bedroom to another, as if he’s debating how to phrase what he’s saying: “It’s so strange because I have written about my private life a million times, but there’s something about this that hurt so much more.”
During the making of Bloom, Sivan had been in a relationship with model and actor Jacob Bixenman. Sivan acknowledged his partner as the reason for its optimistic outlook. In recent months, tabloids have speculated that the pair are no longer together after four years of dating, citing Bixenman’s recent absence from Sivan’s Instagram grid , and their separate lockdown plans. Sivan is guarded when discussing what happened.
That song began as a doleful, ruminative ballad about a relationship that lingers in the subconscious long after it’s over. But when Görres — who helmed five of the six tracks on In A Dream — heard the story, his mind went elsewhere: maximalist percussion that would fit a Wham! song and grinding synths that take precedence over Sivan’s echoing, angelic vocals and gentle guitar interludes.
Two days after we first talk, Sivan answers the phone against a backdrop of darkening grey clouds and leafless trees, a mask pulled up past his nose. “I haven’t been out today and the curfew is coming, so I want to quickly get my little exercise in. Is that okay?” He’s going to take a slow stroll through a park he hasn’t been to in a while where there are “a million” dogs. The clockwork routine of these walks is all that’s keeping him sane right now.
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