The new single from Aaron Fyfe, ‘Love That’s Lost’/’Campfires’ displays a touching and often nostalgic style of acoustic music stemming from the performer’s personal experiences of love and loss.
The first track, ‘Love That’s Lost’ has a minor and alternative country feel to it, but mostly demonstrates Fyfe’s powerful voice.
The song builds on the foundation of a strong chord structure with eerie, high-pitched distortion giving a tense and compelling ambience.
The rises and falls in the track are used sparingly and conclude in a fading out to a soft drone of feedback.
Second track ‘Campfires’ has a soft and quaint style to it, emphasised by the delicate approach to the chord sequence and light tone of the harmonics.
The mood of the song is sentimental and the lyrics “I loved you every day, somehow never enough” are enough to strike a chord with any listener.
The song begins to accumulate with percussion and vocal harmonies towards the end giving it a powerful crescendo and eventually dies down to Fyfe singing quietly over the gentle chord sequence.
‘Love That’s Lost’ and ‘Campfires’ establish Fyfe’s talents as an artist due to his wistful angle on music and is definitely Glasgow’s latest best-kept secret.
Words: Louis Jenkins
