Nashville-based Diego Molina delivers an atmospheric pop emotion on new single “What’s That Light in Your Eyes?” — inspired by the artist’s first visit to Colombia, his home country. A brisk rhythmic element persists, showing a reggaeton infusion, while expressive guitar layers move seamlessly within Molina’s smooth vocal delivery and quaint synths.
Citing an early ’00s influence — to U2 and Enrique Iglesias, especially — Molina thoroughly succeeds with riveting emotion and a memorable soundscape on the track. He wrote, produced, and mixed the release solely on his own in his Nashville apartment — after originally writing it in Bogotá, Colombia.
“It’s a song about mystery and looking for revelation,” Molina says. “Finding it in beauty and doing whatever it takes to see it. To love it. To just behold it.” The title-touting refrain, arriving amidst tender guitar twangs and a late-night synth background shimmer, feels certainly reflective of beholding that seeking revelation — akin to a “light in your eyes.”
The track stirs in its compelling melodic drive and vibe-forward pop spell, inducing replays in its hooky soulfulness whilst audibly conveying Molina’s love for his native Colombia. “I fell in love with the spirit of Colombia – understanding that this was so deep in my DNA,” he says. “It felt like I went to heaven and back. The sound of reggaeton at 3am, the quietness of the bogota skyline, the love in the eyes of the people of Colombia.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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