“Blending an upbringing in classical music with a present love of pop, country girl creates music to bring to life those small personal experiences which make life worth living.” So we wrote last month when sharing the project’s single, ‘your favourite girl’, released via FADER Label. Bathed in throwback nineties nostalgia, the song was rich with fondness, detailing “that pressing desire to be a main character in story,” as we put it, “however small that story might be.”
country girl has now returned with brand new track ‘i like that’, and the same spirit of earnest romance persists. The nineties aesthetic adds a fresh, wide-eyed quality to the sound, creating an ode to a significant other as voiced from the heady early days. “I like it when you smoke / How you breathe out so slow,” as one verse goes. “The way it sticks to my clothes / And drives me crazy.” Stupid tattoos, smells of shampoo, curves of ribs and scars on lips, all the small details get loving mention, as though awash in the novelty of new love, the narrator is drunk on the peculiarities of this miraculous person. “The things that make a person feel intimate to you, unique, true,” as the artist puts it. “I like to notice those things, and this song is about that.”
Watch the visualizer below, directed by Emma Callahan and edited by Maurice Goldberg, with typeface and logo by Alexandre Edenne:
‘i like that’ is out now via FADER Label and available from the usual places.