“Lovesick,” the final track from Maude Latour’s 2019 EP Starsick, is a song about a very real phenomenon that most people have experienced at some point in their lives. Using the vocabulary of a pop song and her knowledge of the way ancient Greek and Roman poets like Sappho and Virgil wrote about love as a disease to be treated, once diagnosed by doctors (perhaps figures like Hippocrates and Galen), Latour cleverly fuses suffering from being heartsick and the age old attempt to overcome it by figuring out a cure or something you can do that adheres to principles of reason and science. She describes those feelings with her vocals sitting in the mix in a way that sounds like she’s telling the listener these things in confidence with the listener sitting in for the object of that love. The song blossoms like a cherished memories of the best times of that love that sounds like might be gone and terribly missed by the end of the song. It’s a song that conveys heartsickness but it has a bit of a different feel because Latour doesn’t adhere to the usual song structures, rather the arc of the song is the arc of the course of the romance in miniature that, while it makes sense at the time is guided more by natural rhythms and intuition rather than an imposed framework. Listen to “Lovesick” on Soundcloud and watch the video for the song filmed by Fergus Campbell below.
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