With spare guitar work and introspective, up close vocals and minimal drums SOMOH starts off “I Know You Care” on a particularly vulnerable footing. But as the song progresses the musical elements swell up, joined by a wash of synth as the emotional arc of the song intensifies before dropping back to a quieter moment and building again. It’s an elegant song about heartbreak and compassionate frustration with great nuance in its simplicity. It expresses how when you’re hurt initially it’s hard to know what to say sometimes so it’s best to just feel and sort out the words as you go. The line “I know you care/But you don’t show it well” in the last half of the song encapsulates so poignantly and succinctly an emotional complexity and nuance that goes beyond the typical love song and heartbreak tropes and gets to the reality of what it can often be like to be in a real relationship with an actual human being who may not be equipped with all the emotional intelligence to react or behave in the ways one would hope with the typically limited set of personal skills we are encouraged to learn in many cultures. SOMOH singer and songwriter Sophia Mohan’s breathy vocals and way of diving deep into that tangle of feelings with a clarity of feeling truly helps to clarify what could otherwise be purely messy. Listen to “I Know You Care” on Spotify and follow SOMOH at the links provided.
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