Still fresh off of the release of their debut album Sky City in January, emotive chill-pop five-piece Amason round off their year with the enchanting ‘Yellow Moon’. With layers of delicately twinkling strings, quietly jubilant keyboard hooks (happily reminiscent of Future Island’s exuberant synths) and Amanda Bergman’s winsome vocals, Amason have captured the sensation of being adrift in your thoughts, contemplating some grand, serene and aching love that, ultimately, causes more harm than good.
Posited to a lover who takes her for granted, before complaining that her heart is not enough, Bergman sings of inconstant things; all with the knowing pain of muted heartbreak and the hushed, tentative promise of new beginnings; “Trying to fight the flicker and / the shiver in the dream” speaks of the slow dissolve of a love merely posing as true, whilst “Don’t make your love define me” is her resolute defiance at her lover’s wilful neglect, pointed and powerful no matter how gently she delivers it.
Amason have created a sweetly absorbing sound, one that keens softly at the torment of a lost love, and asks us to nurse our wounds proudly. We think of past romances, and, through this, we quietly fade, under the pale light of the yellow moon.
Words by Tom Grantham
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