Los Angeles-based band Shadow Sides compel with a laid-back rock dreaminess on new single “We Say Love But We Don’t Mean It.” Hypnotic guitar swirls and a sludgy bass line converge with a hushed vocal entrancement, complemented by spacey synth tones rounding the one-minute mark; the synth element appears sporadically throughout, standing out particularly well as it adorns the title-touting vocal segment past the mid-point. The consistently lush vocal tone and atmospheric guitar/synth interweaving make for a captivating production throughout the memorable “We Say Love But We Don’t Mean It.”
Shadow Sides elaborate on the track’s inspirations:
When you meet someone and start falling for them, but there’s one seemingly insurmountable problem that you both know probably cannot be overcome. So you protect your heart. It’s about a relationship that was amazing but fraught with problems leading to saying “I love you” but then breaking up and not truly putting each other first.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
