Taste Test: East of My Youth are covered head-to-toe ‘By Blue’
The synth-pop duo brood heavily on life’s many changes with their first song of 2019.
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Change is like stumbling upon a shiny nickel on the pavement. Once you flick away the grime and the dirt, you’ll likely uncover a shimmering slice of hope. Sure, five cents will get you literally nothing ⏤ thanks economy! ⏤ but it’s a metaphor. You can always trust change to come washing over you when you least expect it, and the only option any of us really have is to just embrace it and cherish the good. Icelandic synth-pop duo East of My Youth ⏤ of Thelma and Herdís Stefánsdóttir ⏤ bathe their whole beings in a truly sublime, forthy fountain of enlightenment in the dazzling form of their new single. “By Blue,” which gurgles with sticky synth bubbles, emits a sugar-high reminiscent of Lana Del Rey’s haziest dreamscapes, sweeping from image to image like a spectral who’s forever-doomed to walk this earth for eternity. “Everything surrounds us by the color blue / This world was never made me and you,” slips from their grasp and goes bobbing down the stream from which all their thoughts and eloquent songcraft comes.
“By Blue” is the duo’s first single of 2019.
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