Moroccan singer-songwriter Meryem Aboulouafa writes dark, dreamy, and propulsive songs that pull equally from French pop, American rock, and Middle Eastern folk, creating a sound that’s wholly her own. “Deeply,” the latest single off her debut album Meryem, urges the listener to see people as complex, capable of both “hate and love, pureness and darkness.” Aboulouafa dedicates the song to people who need the reminder, “those who judge at first sight without taking the time to see the far side of the moon inside each of us.” The weight of this introspection is offset by the effortlessness of the gliding instrumental, an intermingling of cinematic strings and meandering keys that buoy her vocals, which alternately expand like fog and twist like ribbons in the wind. In the music video, she watches as strangers wander through brightly colored arches and occasionally fall into a deep pit. Her background as an interior designer is evident in the set, sleek as the inside of a Glossier store; it is eerily soothing, almost pretty enough to mask the presence of the dark abyss at its center. It’s a perfect representation of the sparring emotions bubbling beneath the surface of Aboulouafa’s music.