So Loreless – O.M.G.

Melancholy meets 80s synth magic

"O.M.G" from the EP "Tears Fall, We've Kissed Them All" by So Loreless (the new pro­ject of Gore Gloss) is a fas­cin­at­ing track that plunges me into the mel­an­choly depths of 80s and 90s synth pop. The song exudes a calm, almost med­it­at­ive atmo­sphere, car­ried by Geoff Scott's gentle and empath­et­ic voice. The vocals are not only soft and sooth­ing, but also full of emo­tion, which per­fectly matches the mel­an­choly mood of the track.

The bass is remin­is­cent of the dis­tinct­ive sounds of "The Cure" – dark, but not oppress­ive; instead, it provides a sol­id found­a­tion on which the light, play­ful melod­ies can unfold. These bright synth melod­ies bring an almost dreamy light­ness to the song and give it a spe­cial dynam­ic that nev­er fails to sur­prise me.

I par­tic­u­larly like the subtle synth effects, which remind me of 70s space-age sci-fi. These ele­ments add an addi­tion­al lay­er of futur­ist­ic nos­tal­gia that per­fectly har­mon­ises with the retro aes­thet­ics of synth pop. It is this mix­ture of old and new that makes ‘O.M.G.’ so exciting.

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