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There is something eternally vintage about artist Love Mansuy's "(món-swee) side B." Each song resonates like it was written to a specific instrument. The heavy emotional lifting is done in the songwriting on the choruses. The verses ring closer to a romance/drama movie than songs. There are no features. You can hear the emphasis on catchy where a formula in structure and production is to be applied revivifying the old rules of song, a great flip in the current sounds we're living in.
Records like "Saturday" draw back to the aughts and alternative rock's dominance on the decade. Blonde guitar riffs and singular, splashy drums ripe with instrumental breakdowns anchor the laguna rhythm. Love Mansuy's youthful vocals carry like the lead vocalist of a band, giving the song that never-ending feeling. His moderate melodies follow the queues of the riffs religiously and the sound is irrefutably pleasant. And, although sounding purposefully conventional at times in structure and production, "Saturday" keeps the musical artist genre-less like all other tracks on "(món-swee) side B" do.
The same thing can be said about the record acting as the first look into this puddle of sentiment wrapped in remembering, "Tuesday Evening Flow." Crystallized chords and deep diving drums play as the backdrop to the bell ringing and ambrosial melodies falling in love, which differ heavily from "Same Way" -- a long-suffering piano-led ballad with juxtaposing verses and choruses of melody and rhythm.
Love Mansuy's "(món-swee) side B" continues to be music that breaks genre convention while getting back to it in the foundation of the music alone. The songs are tender and cared for and the subject(s) in the songwriting receive the same treatment. And I can't think of anything better to hear in love records.
Listen to "(món-swee) side B" below.
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