Opening with layered instrumentation, Cold Warm Green Blue unfolds like a collage. Percussion and guitars are roughly assembled with overlapping edges. From this textured picture emerges Olive Wreath’s gently processed vocal. Like a forgotten photograph fluttering out of a well thumbed paperback, it lands in our laps. It feels like a memory we had forgotten, yet one that instantly puts us back in a previously forgotten emotional state.
Based in London, Olive Wreath creates pop music through a combination of folk instrumentation and electronic production. Here on Cold Warm Green Blue, she depicts the experience of growing up against a background of shifting relationship dynamics and an emerging identity, as she describes:
‘I made my debut single cold warm green blue to express feelings of getting older and relationships changing in the context of an LGBT identity — like you're wandering through woods at night and a concert's fading through a mile away.’
The result is a song that quivers with a kind of nervous emotion — it is fragile and vulnerable, and yet wearing a layer of abstraction as a form of protection. The result is beautiful and intimate, a series of Polaroid-like snapshots of someone growing up, scattered across a bedspread, raising as many questions as they answer.
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