Taste Test: The Bergamot lose grip on the allure of ‘L.A.’
The indie-folk duo brood on crushed dreams and impending reality with their smokey new tune.
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Dreams are often perceived as silly passing fancies. They can come and go as swiftly and severely as the wind, haunting your dreams at night or casting a shadow on the day. Spooking somewhere in between, a space constantly at war with itself, indie-folk duo The Bergamot harvest a campfire’s ashes and charred fragments of a life long burned to the ground. “L.A.” is a specter of the past, and the duo of Jillian Speece and Nathaniel Paul Hoff meander through reverberating hallways of closed doors and damned dreams that’ll only sour in time. “So she’s moving on / By the time I write this song, she’ll be gone,” they sing only in hushed whispers, their tone somber and crushed. Reality soon sets in like a bad cold, and the fever flushes their eyelids, and before they can even catch their ailing breath, the past is only what could have been. Nothing more.
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What a poetic and exacting take! I love this track as well. Makes you feel it. So well written, that I literally could feel it in my bones. Soooo good.