I’m a fan, I’m in. I admit, I’d kinda lose track of it while I was listening, but I don’t think I attribute that to the music lacking anything. Whenever I did tune in a little more, I was impressed and interested. Enough that I just added each album to my main playlist in their entirety, even if I couldn’t quite remember the individual song. Something about it is deeply compelling, something about it convinces me that I like it even when I wasn’t really listening. Something about it convinces me that I’m only going to like it more. I was nervous at first that I’d be put off by his constant falsetto, but honestly it fits. That’s kinda my main takeaway here, is that everything fits. Y’know? I’m gonna start it off at an A, but I’m really feeling this one, I think this could rise to an A+ at least, that’s how good I’m feeling.
Also, this isn’t really relevant to my feelings on Novo Amor as an artist at all, but it’s a funny story. Well, it’s not really a story. It’s a funny happening. What happened was, the very first Novo Amor song I listened to, Silvery (with Lowswimmer), immediately stood out to me, I pretty immediately loved it. It still might be my favorite Novo Amor track, but there’s a moment in it that on my very first listen caught my attention. At 3:03, there’s a little electric guitar lick that sets up the horn section to give an answering melody, and it’s great. The guitar calls, the horns responds, it sounds super nice. Then at 3:11, the horn response finishes and it feels so much like it’s time for the guitar to call again before the horn gives its next response. So I’m listening, right, waiting to hear the guitar come back in, and it never does. The horns keep going the last 40 seconds of the song and the guitar never comes back in. At that 3:11 mark, the song is itching for that guitar to come back in, I can feel it, it wants it, so bad, and it doesn’t come. And I think, okay, maybe it’s just an extended horn bit, the guitar will come back later. But again, no, it doesn’t, not at all. So then I listen to the song through again and I’m thinking, maybe it’s in my head, maybe I just heard it a particular way that time. But no, I want it so bad. I want that guitar to call again, I can feel it hiding in the song and it will not come out. It’s like, part of me is so frustrated because the song isn’t how I feel like it ought to have been, because it feels like it’s missing that one piece. Part of me thinks it’s awesome in the sense that the song was able to evoke such strong feeling from me, that it was able to create such tension that I felt such a strong pull toward this sound that wasn’t there. Both parts agree that it’s noteworthy, and both parts agree it’s kinda funny.
But yeah, moral of the story, I’m a fan, Novo Amor rocks. Go team
Novo Amor complete, now listening to: Stolen Jars
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