Sarnilo’s latest single, Autumn, doesn’t try to match the weather in Eswatini — and it doesn’t need to. While the country moves deeper into its winter chill, the Mbabane-born singer is caught in her own emotional season, one where everything is falling and nothing feels permanent.
Released on April 18, the track has quietly circulated through streaming platforms, picking up listeners who find comfort in its softness. There’s no rush, no radio hook, no demand for attention. It simply arrives and sits with you, like grief often does.
Autumn is a conversation with the dead. Sarnilo reaches out to her late father through whispered vocals and bare instrumentals, repeating the line “There’s no distance between us, so you know where I’ve been.” It’s part yearning, part anchor. That phrase becomes her way of closing a gap that can never fully be closed.
The soundscape, built by producer Tru Hitz, is sparse and intentional. Samketi N. Dlamini wrote the lyrics with the kind of honesty that doesn’t try to impress. Sibusiso G. Maseko and Siyabonga Sindelo helped shape the composition, while Sakhile Mkhonta’s mixing lets each word breathe. Nothing feels rushed or overwritten.
Shot by Tinashe, the video adds to the atmosphere. Sarnilo doesn’t act out the song; she moves through it, as if living inside a memory. There are no dramatic gestures — just stillness, silence, and the heaviness of remembering.
Watch Sarnilo’s Autumn lyric visualizer below
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