Setting the tone with luscious vocal textures and an immersive, arpeggiated melody, Lonesome Ocean open Love Makes War with intrigue and atmospheric vocals, telling the story of a break up.
The opus expands into a dream-pop meets folk-rock hybrid soundscape, with intricate detailing and a narrative touching on the human condition and “dealing with heartache and the passage of time.”
Expanding on the meaning of the track, Lonesome Ocean confesses that Love Makes War is about “the desire to run home when things get hard, only [to] realize that everything has changed and that home is no longer the place it was.”
We appreciate the poetic nuance of the piece, which is fully produced and recorded by Lonesome Ocean, who is also known as artist Kyle Breese. The vibrant soundscape is dimensional, and Lonesome Ocean‘s brand of emotive story telling is immersive and descriptive, with a charismatic delivery.
Lonesome Ocean cites indie-folk music including Christian Lee Hutson, Phoebe Bridgers, Big Thief, Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes as his influences, as well as “being outside, lost in thought, and daydreaming”, so it is clear that the rising artist from Nashville is creating a sound of his own!
We have added Love Makes War to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream the wider discography of Lonesome Ocean, including I-40 W and Hazy Day!