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“So I actually think it was the first song I wrote for the album”, the Scottish, Brighton-based singer-songwriter tells BEST FIT. Her home city of Glasgow played a pivotal part in the writing of the song. “Unfortunately my friend passed away a couple of months before, so I just needed to go home for a while,” she confesses. It was at this time that Amor committed to writing the music that she wanted.
Amor has signed to New York independent label VERO Music and today shares “Meet On the Moon”, an exciting first glimpse of the direction that this shift has taken her in: “I think when something really big happens in life and you're grieving, you think ‘I’m just going to make the music I’ve always wanted to make.’ Your perspective shifts, and I had been making music that I liked, but it was a little more surface level and a little more upbeat than the music I listen to.”
Lyrically, the song is an ode to friendship and a description of someone beautiful, a character that exists apart from everyone else. “She’s brighter than the northern star / When she smiles the whole world stops.” Amor croons the opening lines, her vocals enveloped in lush reverb. “This song kind of fell out the sky,” she says. It’s an homage to my friend and the mystical, magical female archetype. The moon is a big theme, it represents the divine feminine to me.” The centrality of the moon to the writing process is not restricted to the lyrical focus, but instead through the shimmering guitar lines and the wide open spaces created by the synths. This sound is one that evokes the cosmos, leaving the listener feeling detached and amongst the stars.
The writing of “Meet On The Moon” and her forthcoming album was one in which Amor could exercise some of the grief and loss she has felt, whilst also reckoning with love and friendship. The combination creates something beautiful and so delicately explicated: “It’s definitely a journey, a chronological journey. It’s about relationships through a more complex lens as they develop through your 20s.”
The complexity of relationships is condensed in simply surmised statements of love throughout “Meet On The Moon”. As the chorus soars, Amor sings: “How she had to say goodbye / Like an eagle she was born to fly / So just look up to the sky / Like a moon she was born to shine”. The killer line, “You’ll see her soon / When you meet again on the moon”, is reserved for the very final moments of the track: “I did toy with only having the chorus once and I wasn’t sure whether to have it twice and the outro was really random where the whole song is in major and then the song is ended in a minor chord.”
But that final part takes the song somewhere different. Rather than ending with a resolution, the listener is left to feel like they’re stepping up and onto the moon waiting to see where else that will take them. “I do hope that people will listen to this album and it can bring stuff up and help process those things. That was a huge mission of mine, a goal to try and help people process themselves.”
If “Meet On The Moon” is a demonstration of the emotional depth and musical intrigue of the rest of her upcoming album, then Alex Amor’s intentions are sure to be realised.
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