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New Zealand songwriter-producer Sues Jeffery presents ‘I Love You, Still (2025 Remaster)’ — a slow-burning cinematic-pop track built on fragile vocals, lush harmonies, and rich orchestral textures. The new master deepens its immersive quality with smoother dynamics and a refined tonal profile while preserving the song’s emotional sincerity. At its heart lies the quiet torment of loving someone who has already moved on — rendered through deliberate pacing, harmonic tension, and sonic detail shaped by film-score sensibility.

Intimate yet expansive, ‘I Love You, Still’ blends pure soprano vocals with tense harmonies, foreboding strings, and the bright assertiveness of guzheng. The piano states each chord with measured clarity, while the upright bass reinforces it as a steady rhythmic backbone beneath sparse percussion. The arrangement moves between stillness and swell: tubular bells toll, backing vocals mourn, icy bells glint, and atmospheric pads shift subtly with each chord. The bridge moves to a pulse-driven section that mirrors past turmoil.

Sues Jeffery is an independent New Zealand songwriter-producer crafting off-centre cinematic pop that merges expressive songwriting with textural sound design. Working solo across writing, producing, and mastering, she builds immersive sonic worlds that balance emotional precision with experimentation, occasionally engaging live musicians for organic nuance. ‘I Love You, Still (2025 Remaster)’ marks her first appearance on major streaming platforms and introduces ATMOS — an evolving body of work spanning aching sincerity, wry irony, and dark, deranged whimsy. What connects these songs is their cinematic scope: each unfolds like a scene, translating all shades of emotion in sound.

“ATMOS is a bit like a weather system — each song’s shaped quite precisely, but they’re all as different as the weather, like a kaleidoscope of feelings: from calm to chaos, sun to storm, heartbreak to humour, ache to irony. But I’m always chasing the same goal — to capture whatever the emotion is in sound, as richly and authentically as possible.”

Listen to the track here.

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