Scottish-raised singer-songwriter Alex Amor makes the kind of music that washes in like the tide, gauzy, slow-burning alt-pop built from clouds of keyboards, heavily treated guitars and multitracked vocals that blur together into something that sounds, on first listen, like one beautiful wash of sound. Sit with it a little longer and the layers start to reveal themselves. It’s worth the patience.
New single ‘Meet On The Moon’ is all shimmering guitars, soft-focus synths and lulling melodies that drift between verse and chorus so fluidly you barely notice the join. If you’re reaching for comparisons, Cigarettes After Sex’s hazy atmospherics, and The Marías are in there too, that same sense of something nostalgic and slightly submerged.
At its core, the song is a tribute to a close friend Amor lost. She wrote it during a month back in Glasgow, producing herself for the first time.
The song, she says, is “about a friend who completely embodied the mystical, magical woman archetype I sing about in the lyrics. A few months before I wrote it, she passed away. I found myself thinking about her magnetism - the magnitude of her spirit, the force of her nature - and how, in some strange way, Earth felt too small to contain her”.
If you’re at Liverpool Sound City this week, Amor is performing there and definitely worth your time.
🎧 Watch the video for ‘Meet On The Moon’ below