On Oct. 15, contemporary folk duo Haley Heynderickx and Max Garcia Conover released “Fluorescent Light” as a single for their upcoming album dropping this Friday, What of Our Nature. This warm acoustic track is laden with straightforward commentary on consumerism and loss of humanity in our present-day social climate.
“Fluorescent Light” features simple, repetitive instrumentation: soft, spaced-out acoustic guitar alongside gentle, choppy percussion and the distinct sound of hands clapping. These plain sounds create that deeply human feeling you can only hear in acoustic folk. The personal and familiar atmosphere might make you imagine this song being played around a campfire, or sung casually by a group of friends in a cozy living room.
The overall theme of this track is the loss of a sort of deeper meaning and connection that humanity once had. Heynderickx’s rich voice runs like a smooth ribbon along the gently percussive instrumentation as she describes this abstract meaning as a light or a song that’s now absent from our lives, having been overtaken by artificiality:…