The listening experience behind ‘Flowers’ is rather magical and haunting, a slice of vaporous dark-pop wrapped in luscious fuzziness and malleable, lamentous vocals, the sort of tone that completely captures one’s attention, a tone that’s drenched in quiet melancholia and celestial epicness. Marking Marry Me Emelie!’s latest offering, the record further advances the London-based duo’s creative journey, following up on last year’s EP ‘The Distance Makes The Mountain Blue’.
We appreciate the unconventional music that emerges from Marry Me Emelie’s creative allure. ‘Flowers’ feels nostalgic and otherworldly, but also familiar and welcoming at the same time. It’s a track that invites a quiet collective catharsis, a perfect recipe for aural escapism, if you ask us. Ella Bruccoleri’s charming vocals resonate like a bold fever dream, ethereal and slightly moody. Together with Yoan Segot, the talented songstress and BBC actress has built an artistic project like no other.
Delving deeper into the meaningful ethos that propels the single, we are told: “A slow funeral elegy told from inside the moment. Sparse electric guitar, dark velvet vocals, near-silence. The lyric circles a single image, flowers placed in the hand, returning to it like a ritual until it breaks.” One of our favourite moments in the record is Bruccoleri’s harmonies-heavy main hook, with ‘Flowers’ being repeated like some sort of evocative prayer.
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