Jack Horton’s single “Never Know Why” is a love song that starts in silence and ends in symphony

The most memorable songs, on occasion, result from quiet simplicity and then blossom into something stunning. And that’s the experience Jack Horton aims to give the listener with “Never Know Why,” featuring Vesper Stockwell, a track off his EP Imperfections. This is a master class in emotional storytelling, and “Never Know Why” opens with a stripped-down, almost whispered intimacy. The roughened honesty of Horton’s voice rings throughout, as if he were baring his soul through a page of a personal letter.

Following her is Vesper Stockwell, whose voice is positively luminous, piercing the hush with a lucidity that is in equal measure earthly and otherworldly. Both of them have voices that crash together in harmony, like two spirits talking through something that can’t be explained. The production matches the song’s theme with just the right touch of restraint. Something that begins as a stripped-down duet gradually blossoms into a cinematic, melodic texture. A whole symphony ascends in the final moments not to overpower, but to carry the song into an emotional crescendo that lasts long after the last note has been silenced. It’s a change that feels earned, not contrived, and that dynamic arc is what makes the song punch.

Horton knows when to hold back and when to pour it out. He does not attempt to define love. Instead, he embraces the mystery of it. It’s about that profound human ache, the magnetic draw to someone that reason can’t quite reach. Vesper adds a spiritual sort of heft to his vocals, as if she’s responding to him from the other side of some invisible abyss. “Never Know Why” is a moment that aches and ultimately soars. Jack Horton continues to demonstrate that imperfections aren’t unsightliness and injuries aren’t defects, they’re where the truth resides. And sometimes the truest songs are the ones that don’t even bother to explain, they just let you feel what it’s like.