Alex Starling’s single, “Maybe We Lost It” touches deep emotional chords. The song artfully untangles the relationship among love, regret and nostalgia. Usual to his style, Alex begins with a captivating synth-washed projection but turns acoustic midway, allowing his voice to shine. Starling imaginatively opens the piece with soft yet mesmerising lines that convey love over loss, instantly catching the attention of the audience. His voice has an intriguing vulnerability to it which provides context and profound relativity to the song.
The power of the lyrics is kept intact by limiting the production to a great extent. The deeply touching and longing-filled Alex’s raw cinematic voice makes the chorus the most powerful part of the song while the instrumentation carefully mastered gives the song emotional balance. His capability of making simplistic lines into deeply moving ones is astonishing. While listening to the piece and during the ‘pensive silent mode’ after, a sensation of longing is felt. There are no words that need to be said about the song’s heart-touching ring – it makes you feel.
“Maybe We Lost It”, perhaps it never existed at all. Regardless, the validity of Alex Starling’s profound songwriting abilities remains unrivalled, if not stronger than it was before. He honed his craft in an alternative pop group, ‘Ou Est Le Swimming Pool’, as well as in ‘The Ghosts’, and that culminating experience shows. It is also firmly personal for Alex, or at the very least we want to believe so. These characteristics make it such an enjoyable and multifaceted piece where each listener presents a different self. Every late-night self-reflection or quiet moment makes it even easier to appreciate. If you enjoy music that evokes these kinds of feelings and are moved by a song, definitely add this to your playlist.
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