Award-winning indie-folk duo The Bergamot unveil a lovably expansive piano ballad with “Tides,” the lead single from their upcoming album, Before This Is Over. Produced by Matt Wiggins, the track draws from a deeply personal loss regarding Nathaniel Paul’s late father, building into a heartbreaking, orchestral folk-pop exploration of love and mortality. It has us firmly anticipating the full-length, thematically exploring “love, loss, mortality, and human connection.”
Beautiful piano work opens the track, ethereal and glistening in its graceful progression. “She is unlike the others, a queen undiscovered, in need of a crown,” the vocals unveil thereafter, emitting a powerful duet that melds lushly caressing tonal prowess with heavy emotional weight. “Oh my god, don’t forget me,” a pleading vocal segment follows, as does a retrospective “we fell in love quick, it was too perfect…” allure as subdued rhythms usher in. The vocal layering and folk-pop emotiveness reminds fondly of Sufjan Stevens in its heartfelt, serene production.
A title-touting segment dazzles around midpoint, its “then we’ll both drown” envisioning of the tide’s pull moving into further pleas not to forget. The second half of the track then stirs in its vibrant instrumentation, where the pianos assume a glowing, prancing resonance alongside guitar twangs. “Don’t forget me, not right now,” the haunting multi-vocal entrancement returns for an impactful conclusion, and a heartbreaking “we used to be lovers, now she’s another face in the crowd” melancholy. The Bergamot deliver another memorably affecting showcase in songwriting with “Tides.”
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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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