Concert Review: Novo Amor Makes Life Feel Like Water In NYC
Have you ever gone underwater? Whether you did this at the pool or the ocean, there is something peaceful and meditative about that choice. Yet, there is also something strangely beautiful to how the surrounding waters encase you with its warmth so that, when you leave it, you feel colder without it. For Novo Amor, each relationship is a choice go underwater, which is why when they end, they leave you searching for their warmth again.
Cramped on the rockwood stage, Novo Amor’s mini-orchestra impressed the Spotify fan club. Playing his first show in U.S., he was coyly excited, and absorbing every moment of his set with dry wit and no shoes. The torrential rains had left him in socks, but he was smiling at seeing seeing a crowd left in happy tears. Novo Amor’s music feels like an ocean of sound coming over you with its gorgeous, prodigious nature. Yet, Novo Amor’s voice is like clear, blue drops of rain into an ocean.
Novo Amor’s vocality is small, fragile, and melancholic. Yet, I say all those words in humility, and absolutely moved as to how he can turn such “negative” words into art through his voice. He sounds like he is breaking. Still, that “breakage” is comparable to light coming through the cracks of a thick, dark wall. Somehow, Novo Amor lightens the sullen of your day by acknowledging it was sullen. Tracks like, “Birthplace” and “Repeat Until Death,” moved hearts as if they were mannequins being placed on display, while, ironically, singing to feeling negatively stifled by life.
Perhaps, people’s worst nightmare is to know that they have been used and manipulated by a relationship, but I am not talking in terms of a person. Instead, Novo Amor’s lyrics sings to both love and society, and the feeling that norms and undercutting pressures move you around your life like a mannequin. Hence, his voice, verses, and stringed melodies take refuge in the picturesque moments of a life bombarded by routines. For More Information On Novo Amor Click Here.
