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CHINWE OH LOVE

Listening to Chinwe’s second single ‘Oh Love’ is like swimming through warm, fragrant syrup. With lofi layers of melotron, inviting synth chords, and trickling guitar notes, the whole track slowly glides forwards, accommodating Chinwe’s velvety vocals. Speaking about the new release, this London-based newcomer says: "I wrote Oh Love the week after a breakup. No one was really to blame, so I guess I started feeling disillusioned with love itself. The song's about being in a place where you're still attached to someone and even though you don't want to go back, you can't work out how to move forward without them, so you're just kind of stuck in an abyss." With its sleepy nature, this track certainly does evoke that fleeting moment between dreaming and waking; where the lines between fantasy and reality blur into one half-conscious realm. In short, ‘Oh Love’ is a somnambulist soul gem. - Hannah Thacker

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