Brooklyn-based artist Jeremy Aaron maneuvers clever depictions of love within a melodic folk-rock arsenal on “I can’t find a reason.” The single references smitten feelings with the literal love sick equivalent, asking “am I happy, or is this a disease?” as sporadic pulses of strings enter the mix, melding with intrigue amidst ruminating guitar tones. “No need to take my temperature, I’m burning up I know I got a fever,” Aaron’s vocals continue, culminating in a title-touting refrain — wondering if this realization of love requires an ER trip, for its feeling is so new and daunting.
“I wrote the song in the midst of falling in love with my partner, and that moment was toward the end of the pandemic,” Aaron explains. “These images were on my mind a lot, and the lyrics were sort of reclaiming those thoughts as love and desire metaphors.” The continued references to medical equipment/prescriptions — with the “feeling’s growing in me,” resembling a tumor-like overtaking — invoke a sense of anxiety, though quickly complemented by trickling guitars and heartfelt strings that essentially soothe in informing: no, it’s just love, and it can be a “natural cure,” in re-igniting one’s energy and reason for living. “I can’t find a reason” is an affecting, melodic success from Jeremy Aaron, who elaborates more on its creative process, below:
“I was taking a class on musical arrangement with David Longstreth of the Dirty Projectors, and he compared arranging music to Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. In Ikebana, you find balance with asymmetry. That class inspired me to focus on imperfection and to build a shifting soundscape in the recording. I aimed to leave as much space as possible for each element to have its moment. The song composition was inspired by an experiment of writing a song that loops on the same four chords. I love building melodic changes on top of a very simple, repeated base.”
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