Melissa Weikart’s L’amour se construit unfolds like a strange, slow moving dream, with piano, electronics and voice gradually slipping into one another. The track has a psychedelic quality, but it never loses its connection to the intimacy of a song. Weikart’s vocal feels close and unforced, moving through the arrangement as the production twists and expands around it. Small shifts in texture keep the piece slightly unsettled, giving its gentle pace an underlying tension. There is something beautifully imperfect in the way the track approaches love, avoiding the usual romantic gloss in favour of something more ambiguous and human. Weikart’s background in jazz, folk pop and improvisation comes through in the freedom of the arrangement, while her electronic side gives the song a more unpredictable shape. It is an intriguing meeting point between experimental pop, intimate songwriting and psychedelic sound design.
Love gets stranger when the edges are left imperfect.
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