Taste Test: Laveda transport back to the 1980s with their glittering song, ‘L’
The shoegaze duo offer up an apt dissection of today’s generation through an ’80s filter.
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“I think most young people really do want to be loved properly,” muses shoegaze conjurer Ali Genevich. One-half of Laveda, alongside Jake Brooks, Genevich’s observation seeps into the duo’s song, “L.” It rises and falls in ’80s synth bubbles, confetti splashing to the surface, and more than anything, it evokes the vulnerability of what it was like coming of age during the Sixteen Candles and Breakfast Club era. The pair fashion their lyrics with emotive, effervescent glitter, sucked into rhythmic waves like a sledgehammer at a carnival. But it’s not with much pretense; it simply exists as a time capsule, an apt filter they then apply to analyzing today’s generation of Tinder hookups and Black Mirror. Their growing pains are everyone’s pains.
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