L’RESORTS, “We Don’t Make Love”

Kitsch and heartache combine in the poppy and surprising “We Don’t Make Love” from Milwaukee supergroup L’Resorts. Gentle slide guitar accents evoke the dreamy haze of a summer vacation, while a marimba spine and cozy harmonies soften the forlorn lyrics like a Vaseline lens. Still, when they sing “Look at me I’m dying/But we don’t make love”, the melody’s nontraditional resolve hits with the sting of an acid-tongued power ballad. L’Resorts meld these heavy emotions with 60s pop airiness to make an upbeat take on a downer of a relationship.

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