Taste Test: looseleaf are on the verge of a nerve-trembling ‘Breakdown’
Synth-pop duo engage with pleasure and pain with a track from their new EP.
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Just as there’s always beauty and the sweet aroma of pleasure in between layers of pain, so there’s tragedy caked in the lustrous shape of a cherry blossom or a droplet of gloom beneath a lake’s sparkling surface. Operating organic gears in a synthetic soundscape, often celestial and spherical, Los Angeles duo looseleaf scrutinize the duality of life’s doubled-edged, steel-bloomed sword with a song called “Breakdown.” Anthony Marone and Wesley Edwards flex brawny beats over a lush melody that nearly always feels on the verge of breaking in half. “Hold my place / You wouldn’t want to see me breaking down,” the lyrics shape shift, swirling into the conversation of substance abuse and where exactly that falls in line with their moody storyboard. Laser-like synths zap and freeze time in a perfect 3:30 time capsule, and as they tug at your earlobes, you’re propelled on an orbit not foreign from their very own.
“Breakdown” bookends the duo’s new EP, Paper Cuts, out everywhere now.
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