O’O’s Aquamarine is a rich and soulful piece of music, combining dense, textural ambient artistry with the duo’s ever-present pop sensibility. Setting the tone ahead of the release of their debut LP Touche later this year, triumphant crescendos give way to passages of momentary bliss, foregrounding Victoria’s warm, playful vocals.
lyrics
Pain is creeping, seeping
Words are sleeping, weeping
Through her liquid thoughts
Bubbling shaming noughts
And nullifying crosses
Can only count her losses
Alone, well out of earshot
Recounting the unwritten plot
Re-enacting the lovey dovey dove
And her useless drowning love.
Sudden springs of spite swelled up
Soon waves of rage welled up
Now helpless
She soaks in pain, in vain, and sinks
Brain drain...
Then washed up by a tidal bore
Waking up on a lonely shore of rippling sand,
Hungover, Hangover
Aquamarine blues are over
Sang over and over
And oversang
credits
from Aquamarine,
released March 3, 2022
Written, composed, produced & interpreted by O’o (Victoria Suter & Mathieu Daubigné)
Madcamp dance music from the Netherlands that is alternately impish and mysterious, vocal clips and synth blips intermindling. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 29, 2023
