Taste Test: CRONICLE & her lover are just a bunch of ‘Fools’
Alt-pop newcomer struggles with cracks in a relationship and if she should move on with a new song.
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Love can make you do some damn reckless things. Your mind and your heart are at odds, the coarse rope between tugging both apart and together, a duality we all must wrangle and contain. Lovesick and flustered, moody alt-pop newcomer CRONICLE (real name Melanie Mohlkert) finds it impossible to severe ties to a lover who she knows is just no good for her. With “Fools,” a delicately balanced ode, packed with spooky rhythms and footprints, Mohlkert wades hip-deep into the coldness, and even as her skin ices over, she ventures further into the poisonous territory. “After the words that fell / From our lips when they weren’t moving / I don’t know if it is possible / To be a fool again…,” she coos, her voice fading in the very last stanza. Such an eerie statement lingers as a ghost in the air, forever marking the listener, too, with questions about love and loss.
“Fools” follows CRONICLE’s debut single, “Head Up and High,” released last year.
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