WATCH: Malta’s Favourite Alternative Maltese Duo Release New Nostalgic Love Song Perfect For Those Colder Nights
Maltese duo The Shh have one of the longest and most decorated musical histories in Malta, having the pioneer the local alternative music scene with Beangrowers back in the 90s. Two decades later, they’re back with a love song that sounds straight from the era that birthed them.
The song, True Love Will Let You Go, follows the duo’s new direction which is echoed in their other songs like Too Young. The use of more electronic, 80s sounds fuse with that signature sweet nostalgia of youth that the duo are so famous for . Just in case the track needed a little bit more of a nostalgic punch, the track was mastered by none other than Yasmin Kuymizakis, of YEWS (and more recently Ġiżimina) fame.
The Shh emerged as a new side-project between Schranz and Galea, in their own words, “in secret, from a place in between the city of Paris and the island of Malta.”
Their debut album All Things With Love was released in 2013 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Benelux, and Japan, where they actually went on tour later. The title track of their album also features in the 2016 Canadian Film Happily Ever After. Another track, Summer, was also chosen to provide the music to a 2015 ROXY ad that will make you wish you could get out of the house and go see the world.
While True Love With Let You Go is by no means a wintery song, it’s this beautiful contrast that makes it perfect to snuggle up to on a cold winter night.
The visuals of the music video – the work of Chris Mallia from Brodu – also echo that warmness which the lyrics bring to mind.
If you were planning on having a quick karaoke session to the song – and God knows it’s the perfect song to do so – here are the lyrics:
When I awoke I was lying on this luxurious soul
Where I know this fragrance of flowers
Don’t you know I’m falling down to earth
If you follow, stand tall
With our true true love I know we’ll never fall
Don’t you know
True love will let you go
True love will let you go
True love will let you know
True love will let you go
True love will let you know
True love will let you go
You never know if you’re open with your heart and it would show
When you go there’s fragrance of flowers
The track – and others by The Shh – can be downloaded now on the band’s BandCamp profile at an awesome name-your-price rate.