London-based ANDRO opens up in his achingly heartfelt and soul-stirring music “Pure,” an R&B-laced pop power-ballad that leans into connection and intimacy as if for the very first time.
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“Never been afraid of dropping, however this time I received my coronary heart in knots,” UK artist ANDRO sings in a brooding second of trustworthy reflection.
“Was holding all my choices open, however now I really feel I’m dropping contact.” Launched October 28, “Pure” is just elegant: An achingly heartfelt, fantastically bittersweet, and soul-stirring power-ballad all about these first moments we be taught to let somebody in after being closed off for thus lengthy. The Liverpool-born, London-based pop-soul artist leans into connection and intimacy prefer it’s his very first time, drenching the ears in a sizzling R&B laced soundscape replete with buoyant, reverb-heavy keyboards, layers upon layers of enchanting harmonies, and naturally, his personal glistening, golden vocals.
“‘Pure’ is each a lament and a celebration,” ANDRO tells Atwood Journal. “I met somebody late 2021 and we each linked fairly spontaneously and fantastically, once I was going via profession and dwelling transitions, which is at all times scary. We had been each having a lot battle between; making room for one another and the challenges that include a romantic relationship and pushing each our careers as artists. I genuinely thought staying single and impartial and never taking a danger on love would someway be higher. However I spotted that it’s doable to keep up each, particularly in such a fickle business as the humanities. Its necessary to make these connections which are a bit bit extra private than simply pals.”
By no means been afraid of dropping, however this time I received my coronary heart in knots.
Was holding all my choices open, however now I really feel I’m dropping contact.
Now I hear the place my artwork goes, I don’t know if I received room for you.
I’m making an attempt simply to water my very own backyard, however I see it bloom for 2.
“I didn’t wish to quit on one thing that felt like a pure attraction to me and so I positively discovered the choice inside my battle to make room for that particular person so we may develop collectively while additionally rising my profession. And taking the danger in love, as I feel we should always at all times do. Nevertheless the opposite particular person may by no means sit inside their confidence of figuring out (or wanting) it may work. And so the refrain of the music is unquestionably the celebration a part of my battle: A declaration of how a lot I really feel for them in the course of the good and the dangerous, and that I’m selecting to not run away simply because outdoors circumstances are overwhelming.”
I’m being trustworthy. I’m feeling one thing for you.
In so many moments.
And I don’t really feel like giving up, I’m feeling one thing for you.
My coronary heart is ignited. And it feels pure.
“The second verse of ‘Pure’ was rewritten a number of months after the primary verse, which highlights the plain stage of insecurity and uncertainty that at all times occurs in a relationship,” he continues. “The primary line; ‘When your eyes lay on my physique, Typically it makes me really feel insane’ has double that means. One being my very own insecurities about elements of my physique and the way that made me really feel once they checked out me bare, however the different optimistic aspect to that, is the sexual chemistry we had. It additionally strikes into the territory of vulnerability each bodily and emotional, which I feel is at all times an attention-grabbing matter, particularly in queer relationships, we could be so extremely open and communicative however when it’s your first time being confronted with how actual communication ought to and could be, it’s scary. Not figuring out precisely what the opposite particular person is considering on a regular basis, no thoughts video games, and so forth. And so, I made the choice to be courageous and put within the “work” as we had been clearly one another’s confidant throughout powerful moments.”
“I interpret the center eight part and the ultimate refrain to be a remaining plea of not wanting to surrender, simply because it’s going to be arduous work – and that I’m falling in love.”
I wanna hear all of the ideas you’re considering, however I don’t wanna play thoughts video games.
Now I see the place my coronary heart is falling, I’m courageous sufficient to make a name.
You could have been my solely supply of consolation, at a time I believed I misplaced all of it.
Spoiler alert: “Pure” doesn’t have a cheerful ending – no less than, not in a Disney “happily-ever-after” fairytale sense.
“Ultimately, the opposite particular person didn’t wish to make room, and selected themselves and their profession,” ANDRO says. But when we consider a cheerful ending as a finale the place our protagonist has grown and emotionally matured, studying one thing new and helpful that they’ll take with them and construct upon sooner or later, then “Pure” in, truth, euphoric.
ANDRO’s first providing of the yr can also be the lead single off his forthcoming three-track sophomore EP Battle, which follows final summer time’s four-track debut EP Mortal. Paying homage to “Man within the Mirror”-era Michael Jackson (and to a lesser extent, “Observe You Observe Me” period Genesis), with its pulsing guitars and smoldering, larger-than-life drums, “Pure” is straightforward and enjoyable to fall for. Previously a member of Mercury Prize-nominated band Jungle, ANDRO is rapidly cementing himself as a powerhouse vocalist and an equally proficient lyricist; evidently, we are able to’t wait to reel via the fervor of Battle upon its launch.
For now, we’ll be crying our eyes out to “Pure.”
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