angrypeoplelikeyou's new track, "Black Flies," is a heartbreakingly flickering walk through darkened streets. This reimagination of Ben Howard's masterpiece sounds like walking at midnight, the world going all quiet, the familiar thrum of the city behind you, distant and alive as drizzle fogs all your memories into shades of nostalgia.
The song envelops you in its raw, naked intimacy from its first notes. The flamenco-influenced fingerpicking is hypnotic, gentle but forceful like raindrops tapping faintly on a still-translucent windowpane. "Black Flies" beckons on attention, a soft baritone hardly rising above a whisper, with an attention to rhythm. A sadness weaves through every breath, but underneath it, a quiet resilience, a glimmer of something hopeful, something real.
angrypeoplelikeyou take the low road, sacrificing the layers of the cinematic build for cold vulnerability. The result is a confession rather than a performance. It's the voice you might hear in the shadows of an empty subway station or from a lone figure on a park bench at first light, authentic, unrefined, and achingly human. "Black Flies" isn't only about sadness. There is grit here, an unspoken determination to every strum as if the song is moving on despite the burden. This balance between despair and defiance, between heartbreak and healing, makes it so gripping.
angrypeoplelikeyou cut through the noise of oversaturated production in a now-exhausted music environment and is a reminder that sometimes, all you need is a guitar, a voice, and the guts to be vulnerable.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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March 17, 2025
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