Coucou Babe immerses you instantly in a realm of hazy melodies and cool color moods when “Lavenderbees” gets going. Guitars both chime and bloom in slowly turning rosettes of tone, drums keep a steady pace with gentle accents, vocals seem to stream from a cavernous space filled with luminous fog, projecting shadows. There is a slowly undulating quality to the song, not hypnotic so much as reflecting a bittersweet reflection on someone who both breaks your heart and disappoints you and mixed with a sense of regret. It’s reminiscent of the way Chromatics’ songs have a quality that’s both cinematic and drawing out emotions that might otherwise be painful to take on all at once but when experienced through a filter of billowy sounds and drify in its uplift dissolving the edge just enough. Listen to “Lavenderbees” on Spotify and follow Coucou Babe at the links below.
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