The Utah-born musician takes the vocal skill and passion of a Holly Dodson or a Kate Bush, mixes it with a dash of Italo, and a hint of the brooding sounds of Carpenter Brut to deliver a masterclass in electropop.
One of the most difficult things to get right about this sound is to reference the past without being in debt to it. The Path does that in spades, not only in the subject matter of the lyrics but also the crispness and warmth of the production and arrangement.
Synth-pop shapeshifter Whitney Mower, a.k.a. They/Live, has already shared two transfixing tracks off her forthcoming Violet Coda EP—the glossy “To Know Your Love” and the spacey “Another Body”—and today she shares another.
“To Know Your Love (Part II)” pairs Mower’s angelic vocals with careful bass and guitar parts, soothing synths, and pensive electronic percussion—plus a gorgeous saxophone solo courtesy of Lawrence Pi.
13 years after leaving the Mormon church, Whitney Mower is finding her voice, channeling her late mother, and fighting the patriarchy.
Whitney Mower, the Los Angeles singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist behind self-described “womb pop” project They / Live, is on a quest to channel her late mother—one synthesizer note at a time.
Los Angeles singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Whitney Mower has said before that she’s always chasing “a nostalgic essence” and “a certain tone of synth” as They/Live, but a new acoustic cut proves that she doesn’t actually need synthesizers to achieve the dystopian, ethereal glow that defined her debut album, Ablation.