Songfacts®:

• "Street by Street" is a melancholic, folk-influenced ballad about heartbreak and moving on. Laufey sings about reclaiming a city from its memories of an ex.
• Released independently on April 6, 2020, as her debut single, the song's folk-tinged vulnerability resonated with listeners on social media, catching the ears of artists like Billie Eilish and Willow Smith. "Street by Street" was especially popular in Laufrey's home country of Iceland, where it climbed to the top of the Radio chart.
• "Street by Street" is the opening track on Laufey's debut EP, Typical Of Me, a collection of songs crafted during her Berklee College of Music days. Many of the songs were written in her college dorm room. American Songwriter named it among the Best Albums of 2021, calling it "a daydream of an album."