Melo Green

"In the kaleidoscopic world of Melo Green, every song is bound to lead you to a dozen others.

Take “One Year Stand,” a sizzling lament about the demise of a relationship. The vocals enter in a dense, plaintive stack, much like the prophetic chorus that opens Prince’s “7.” The first verse contains a wry reference to Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” the line “you are the apple of my eye” subverted to mean its opposite. (“You’ll never be more than/ the apple of my eye, a metaphor for love.”) Its churning, guitar-drenched conclusion was inspired by the looping outro of “Strawberry Letter 23” — the original Shuggie Otis version, not the more famous Quincy Jones-produced joint by the Johnson Brothers." -Amelia. A. Mason with WBUR's the ARTery

Full article here:
www.wbur.org/news/2024/11/25/melo-green-sound-on