ALBUM // Croatian Amor – Isa

Post by Kristoffer

In a fragmented, dystopian & post-human cityscape, synthetic love songs, melodies and poems unfold. Recurring biblical references gives the album a religious bent, something to serve as a vessel for hope in a dark age. As a recurring image – and a central Christian symbol – water stands in for the holy in the lyrics; it is both chaotic and life-giving – an element that can drown you (you can comfort me, when the waves are rushing in), but also one that refracts beauty from a stirred surface. Nausea is the result of traveling on water; becoming sea-sick. Vomiting into the water.

With miracles, paradise birds, the title Isa, and the song titles Eden 1.1 & 1.2, the album inscribes itself in a tradition of spiritual dance music. The album calls for larger common understandings and sensations, and music, much like religion, becomes an imagined space to connect with something larger than the single club-goer.

We often call prophets and visionaries “ahead of their time,” detached in some important sense from the realities inherent to their place in the historical timeline. On Isa, we are similarly alienated from the present moment. Instead we are transported forward, where there is a hope to connect to something more in sync with the mindset of Croatian Amor.

Science fiction writing, serving as an alternative to a time where airplanes colour the sky black.

Buy Isa here.