Last month, Russian indie quartet Willows released their debut EP Take Care. Though the album only has four tracks, they all showcase a careful balance between dream pop and post-punk, with impassioned vocals and memorable melodies. Our favorite from the EP has to be the fantastically upbeat, pop punk “Kiss,” a track that frontman Roman Solonovich explains is about “the feelings and emotions when you first fall in love.” In that sense, the instrumentals and vocals are brilliantly euphoric but, in its mile-a-minute tempo, also tinged with a unique, starry-eyed anxiety, as if attempting to evoke the feeling of butterflies in the stomach, the quickening of breath, an elevated heartbeat. The chorus softens, the choral oohs and ahhs peppered in between Solonovich’s croon all adding to the aura of modern romanticism.
Take Care is out now.
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