“The Time” by Brisa Roché & IX is clearly steeped in electronic club music with the expert production in the synths and beats organized in the kinds of chapters you’d set up in Ableton Live or another platform for composing and performing modern electronic music. But the aesthetics of the song are reminiscent of the charm of lo-fi pop music but with a feel like something more intimate than the average bedroom pop song you’re likely to hear now that the format has gone from underground to live in large concert halls and even stadiums. And that delicacy of feeling suits a song about wanting to return to a time in a relationship not when things seemed new or other such clichés but to a place in life summed up nicely in the line “How I long for the time when we took the time.” You know, when things don’t seem rushed when you make space for each other and can give the relationship and the special bond you feel the time and energy it deserves. There is an air of nostalgia but it’s not the variety that mourns a past that will never be again but an expression for a fondness for a time that can be again if the people involved can find a way to prioritize what they have together. It can be a challenge given the demands of modern life and trying to live as an adult but Brisa Roché & IX suggest that knowing it’s possible means it can happen again given the will to make it so. Listen to “The Time” on YouTube, look for the forthcoming album BRMD from which the track is taken and connect with the Dutch duo at the links below.
Brisa Roché & IX on Apple Music
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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