Singer-Songwriter Aynsley Saxe Reaches New Heights with “Next Level Love”
Georgetown, Ontario singer-songwriter Aynsley Saxe is soaring once again with the release of her new single “Next Level Love,” a track that elevates her sound to luminous new heights. Following the heartfelt intimacy of “Stranger to Myself,” this latest offering carries the same authenticity while embracing passion, desire, and unrestrained joy as its guiding force.
Saxe has always combined deep roots with adventurous horizons. She first sat down at the piano at age six, wrote her first song on a New Zealand farm at eighteen, and has since carved out a career that blends folk storytelling with contemporary textures. With a background in English and Film from Western University, she writes with a storyteller’s eye, capturing moments that feel both personal and universal.
“Next Level Love” embodies what Saxe herself calls the “summits of romantic love.” Co-produced with Christian Turner at Mill Town Sound in Milton, the song opens with pulsing electric guitar that beats like a heart before lifting into a soaring chorus. “We’re lightning blinding, circuits breaking, overloading off the charts,” she sings, her voice charged with intensity. The track rises and falls like waves, carrying listeners on the same emotional tide that inspired it.
“When I wrote ‘Next Level Love,’ I was coming alive again after a period of feeling dead romantically,” Saxe says. “A spark ignited in me unexpectedly and this song materialized. It’s about the elation of finding passion that is stronger and crazier than ever before.” The lyrics capture that ignition: “You’re gasoline, I’m matches, dangerous… You take me to the edge and beyond.”
This new single builds naturally on the stripped-down honesty of “Stranger to Myself,” her first release from the forthcoming album A Thousand Stars, due in 2026. If that song was the quiet voice of renewal, “Next Level Love” is the exhale of desire, the celebration of what it feels like to fly higher than imagined. “Rising higher than ten thousand feet,” she sings, “If I step off the edge I’m taking you with me.”
The production mirrors the lyrics’ momentum, moving from intimate verses to a euphoric, layered chorus. Background vocals create an expansive, otherworldly quality, lifting the song into the skies of its own metaphor. It’s music that doesn’t just describe passion—it embodies it, reminding us that love can be both grounding and transcendent.
Fans have praised the single as heartfelt and raw, with one listener noting the “glacially smooth and profound” power of her vocals. Others point to the way her voice echoes across layers, speaking to itself in a dialogue of longing and fulfillment. These responses affirm what her audiences have long known: Aynsley Saxe’s music doesn’t just entertain, it resonates with a healing presence.
For Saxe, that sense of resonance comes from a life lived in multiple dimensions. As a musician, and Reiki teacher it’s no surprise that her songs touch on both earthly and spiritual experiences. With “Next Level Love,” she steps forward as an artist unafraid to claim both the vulnerability and the fire within her.
The accompanying music video, edited by Saxe herself, expands on the song’s elemental themes with stormy oceans, fire, and aerial vistas layered over still portraits.
“Passion can be seductive, dangerous and exciting,” she says. “I wanted to create a montage that was evocative, alluring, and slightly trepidatious.”
The result is a visual poem that mirrors the song’s intensity and beauty.
With “Next Level Love,” Aynsley Saxe invites listeners to embrace the exhilaration of passion and the courage of love that leaps into the unknown. It is a powerful step toward her upcoming album A Thousand Stars, a record that promises to chart the many constellations of the heart. In a career already marked by authenticity, this single shines as a beacon of her evolving artistry.
Hi, Aynsley ! Good to meet you! Care to introduce yourself to the readers for those not familiar with your music?
Thank you for the opportunity to connect with you and your readers! I’m a Georgetown, Ontario-based independent indie-folk singer-songwriter and I’ve been on a recording streak recently after writing an explosion of songs that poured out of me after significant life changes. These songs range from heartbreak to intense joy (it’s been a wild ride!) and I’m really excited to release them to the world. My sophomore album, A Thousand Stars, is coming out in 2026.
“Next Level Love” feels like a freefall into passion — when was the last time you truly felt like you were flying that high?
When I was shooting part of a music video recently for another song coming out in 2026 called “Deep Water” I was giddy with elation while wading into the Atlantic ocean (near Halifax). I was shouting with joy as large waves were crashing into me and I was laughing wildly like a crazy woman. I was waist deep in the ocean with my phone in my hand trying to get footage of the waves without getting my phone wet or dropping it. Because of all my hollering and whooping (I felt like a 5 year old letting loose at a birthday party) I’m pretty sure beach goers thought I was unhinged. That was a “flying high” moment I won’t forget.
As a Reiki teacher and songwriter, how do the spiritual and sensual sides of you meet in this song?
When one practices Reiki, it is about connecting with a life force energy that is greater than oneself. This energy can assist with promoting well-being on a deeper level physically, emotionally and spiritually. When I wrote “Next Level Love” I wasn’t thinking about Reiki whatsoever however both are about energy. The chorus of “Next Level Love” is about discovering higher plains of passion and desire and allowing that energy to surprise and delight. As someone who has practiced Reiki for over 25 years, I’ve noticed in the past few years that many people are becoming more open to discovering themselves as energetic beings, not just physical. In a way, Reiki and “Next Level Love” are both energetic invitations. “Next Level Love” is a nod to being open to unexpected new heights of passion and Reiki invites people to discover themselves on deeper energetic levels if they so choose.
You studied English and Film at Western — how does your storytelling background sneak into your songwriting?
As a teenager, before I knew songwriting was an option I could pursue, I was an enthusiastic poet and I would fill journals full of poems. Even though I was passionate about music, no one had told me I could write songs when I was young and I guess I never thought to ask or even consider that it was an option. From what I remember, songwriting wasn’t talked about anywhere – when I was taking piano lessons or in music class at school. I also wasn’t exposed to anyone who was making their own music so songwriting wasn’t on my radar. But I did grow up with parents who greatly encouraged reading and writing so it’s not a surprise to me that I pursued English at university as I enjoyed writing and it was something I was okay at (unlike math!). I would also often sit in my high school’s hallway between classes writing out song lyrics from bands I loved like Pink Floyd. Looking back it seems strange to me I didn’t consider songwriting at a young age because I loved writing poems and I loved playing music, but I never put the two together until I was 18.
Filmmaking was something I fell into accidentally at University as I decided on a whim to take a double major. After graduating I didn’t touch filmmaking for many years however creating and editing my own music videos recently has reignited that passion I felt in university when making short films. Music making has a rhythm and a flow that songwriters tap into intuitively, and so too there is an intuitive flow to the process of making and editing videos, whether they are music videos or otherwise. I’m thinking about my songs differently now that I’m making my own music videos and I feel like I’ve discovered an exciting new visual playground.
Your upcoming album A Thousand Stars sounds luminous already — what galaxy of emotion are you exploring next?
While “Next Level Love” is about the thrill of discovering new peaks of passion, my next song “For Keeps” is the quite the opposite and wades into the territory of grief and loss. “For Keeps” explores a romantic connection that ends due to incompatible life circumstances and the longing and devastation that follows. It was an emotional song for me to write but similar to journal writing, I think songwriting can be a way for artists to shake loose inner feelings in a kind of cathartic release. It’s not good for us to bottle up emotions, and writing songs or journaling can be a way of finding compassion and understanding for ourselves and whatever we’re going through. Songwriting can validate and honour our hearts’ journey. After all, as you said, galaxies of emotions are far and wide in the human heart.