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Over the past year or so, Orlando-based sibling duo and JOVM mainstays The Lovelines — Tessa D (vocals) and Todd Goings (multi-instrumentalist, songwriting and production) — have released material from their forthcoming full-length debut, single-by-single.
I’ve managed to write about three of the album’s singles:
- “May Be Love,” a slow-burning torch song-like take on trip hop and neo-soul built around shimmering pedal steel and congo-led percussion paired with Tessa D’s soulful vocal expressing an aching longing for love — and to be loved.
- “What Kind of Fool Would Want to Fall in Love?” a breezy pop song built around a looped, shimmering, finger plucked acoustic guitar melody and percussive percussion paired with Tessa D’s soulful crooning. On one level, the song views love with a healthy cynicism — but as the band’s Todd Goings explains, “What Kind of Fool Would Want to Fall in Love is a portrait of the fool in love. Do only fools fall in love or does love make us fools?“
- “Low Fidelity” is a decidedly jazz pop/pop jazz take on their firmly established trip hop-inspired sound that’s rooted in their penchant for incredibly catchy hooks, dusty, old-school inspired production paired with Tessa D’s soulful crooning.
The duo’s latest single “Darlin'” is a slow-burning torch song that that’s subtly one-part neo-soul, one-part old school pop-meets trip-hop rooted around a dusty, lo-fi-like production featuring twinkling Rhodes, boom bap-like drumming and a supple baseline serving as a lush bed for Tessa D’s soulful and yearning crooning.