Enamoring with a catchy pop sound infused with jazz and soul savvy, “igloo” is a fantastic new track from in/of. Hypnotic synths traverse quickly into a bouncy bass pulse, while smooth vocals exude a sense of tumult using heat and cold metaphors. “Is it the temp?” they ask, beckoning in the subsequent chorus: “Let’s escape this heat wave into an igloo / Don’t melt away.” The lyrics play artfully, capturing emotional turbulence — akin to being trapped in a heat wave, and seeking relief from the mood-cooling “igloo.”
The additional vocal lead, after the first chorus, stirs in retaining the dreamy soulfulness. “Make my popsicle melt, heat too sweltering to tell,” they let out. The vocalists converge with melodic charm during the “don’t melt away” central hook, punctuated by stylish synth work that ventures enjoyably into the sating conclusion. “igloo” is a clever, hook-filled success from in/of, an ascending Asian-American band that comprises “a multi-instrumentalist, rapper, singer, & poet.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Indie Pop.
