Taste Test: Irene Conti weaves lonesome yarn on new song, ‘Hey Man’
The folk storyteller embraces the melancholy of everyday life.
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The world relentlessly bolts right passed us without a care that we might not be capable of keeping time. The sands in the hour glass slip through loose fingertips, and it’s a sorrowful kind of existence. Italian folk singer-songwriter Irene Conti embraces such a languid state of melancholy with a new song called “Hey Man.” Her words are vividly incisive, yet her vocal seems to collapse in flaky particles cast into a thunderstorm that only seeks to wash it all away. “London is a city full of lights and hopes / Where you talk, drink and run away to forget your old life / At the end of the road there’s an old, short bridge / Many steps away from the life that you dreamed,” she takes the last remnants of her heart and crumbles them between tired hands. She’s as flighty as a bird, forever fated to live carelessly on wayward winds, but she’s also pulled to stay firmly stagnant.
“Hey Man” is lifted from Conti’s new EP, The World in Front of Me, out now.
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Best singer in the world!! <3