Watch: Ang Low - "Life Goes Down" [Premiere]
“Life Goes Down”, the new single from Brooklyn-based laptop-soul singer Ang Low, is an effortless three minutes of sweetly tuneful RnB ultramodernism; a rich blanket of synthetic and organic sounds that hang in the song’s warm air like glints of sunlight.
Low’s melodies are of a gorgeously airy variety, casually lovely in a fashion reminiscent of Stevie Wonder or John Legend or a more smoothed-out David Ruffin, lending earnest grace to lines like “You’ll be my favorite song when my life goes down”. Built upon chattering hi-hats, a gauzy thump of bass drum and gently swelling organs, there is a buoyant quality to “Life Goes Down” that is utterly infectious. At its core, the song is an afternoon spell of free-floating major key kindness that begs to be repeated, listened to over and over till the track’s fine, studio-shaped details – pointillist flecks of guitar, vocoder harmonies, short glimpses of carefully arrayed percussion, sun glimmers of bell tones – reveal “Life Goes Down” for what it truly is: a casual spring-time symphony, a marvel of optimistic melody.
Watch the bright and charming accompanying video below, which features Low himself.
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