“Dipped in Gold” (LO-FI LE-VI song) – Queen City Sounds and Art

LOFI_LEVI2_crop — LO-FI LE-VI, photo courtesy the artist

“Dipped in Gold” is a love song that begins in the round the way someone deeply in the throes of the emotion revisits the sense memories and visions reinforcing the feelings scroll through one’s thoughts. The image of “your name dipped in gold, the crown in your toes, lips and your nose, the gap in your smile” and being “too scared to sing songs because they’re all about you” and other turns of phrase uttered in awe of the beloved are actually touching. LO-FI LE-VI (born Levi Dronkert) has it bad and the fixation on his loved one comes off not obsessive or creepy so much as tender and earnest. The minimal guitar, bells and the unprocessed vocals are unvarnished yet convey a lushness that often requires more production to accomplish and what production there is lets those organic elements shine. Listen to “Dipped in Gold” on Soundcloud and follow Lo-FI LE-VI at the links below.