New EP Re:love by The Re:flectors dropped last month in June and the trajectory is a fun, upbeat playful release. The songs maintain a brisk backing melody while vocally reassuring us the sensations of lost and longing rendering us throughout the EP are no mistake.
Beautiful Mess is a good introductory tale that lays out the album. It’s a testimony that defines where loyalty lies when you’re truly enamored with another- and calls attention for gratification of the parts of ourselves we spend our lives trying to run and hide from. Maybe We’ll Always Have Paris follows next, and combs through symbolisms of the past. It’s confirmation, in detail, of a pronounced separation that is the lingering backdrop of all songs on the five track album. The succeeding two tracks, Petrichor and Wave, follow these same themes of symbolism- subtle strokes and abstract representations uniformly describe a reminiscing mind missing something from the past despite its defects.
The EP finishes the song that initially drew me in to begin with, No One Will Wait For You. The melody slows down and it resonates with anyone having those impossible moments and days of pure dread to join the rest of the world, while the end of the song nudges you to be reminded that everything around us is continuous, regardless of how stalled and stuck we are from moving on. From start to finish the EP doesn’t fall short of easy listening so kick back, reminisce and enjoy.
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