The song is unabashedly about love… the sparks you feel at first blush.
Something about the oncoming summer seems to have the whole music world buzzing with excitement and anticipation: Everywhere you turn, there sprouts another love song, and Los Angeles artist CLARA-NOVA is no exception: Her anthemic song “Electric” basks in the euphoric spark of budding love, capturing the moments that take your breath away with a refreshing indulgence of blissful alt-pop energy.
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “Electric,” the lead single off CLARA-NOVA’s forthcoming sophomore EP THE GOLDEN AGE (due out this summer)! The moniker for French-American multi-instrumentalist Sydney Wayser, CLARA-NOVA first introduced herself to the world two years ago with debut single “An Island.” She followed that up in September 2017 with the infectious, emphatically propulsive “The Illusionist” and a slew of singles that quickly led to her debut EP, THE IRON AGE, which came out just a few months ago in March 2018.
Yet despite the brevity of time between THE IRON AGE and THE GOLDEN AGE, we can already hear a difference in the material. “Electric” is CLARA-NOVA’s most buoyant track to date, propelled by dazzling synths and bubbling guitars that fill the soundscape with warmth. The song is considerably less ethereal than her other work as well; whereas most folks find themselves floating on cloud nine when they’re filled with love, the emotion seems to have the opposite effect on CLARA-NOVA, grounding her with the clarity and confidence to be her authentic, true self.
“I had just moved to Los Angeles from New York City and was living in Laurel Canyon at the time,” Sydney Wayser tells Atwood Magazine, bringing herself back to when “Electric” began. ” I remember driving around Mulholland as the sun was setting one evening, and the chorus melody popped into my head. I drove home as quickly as I could so I could get to the piano to write the rest of the song before inspiration passed me by.
“The song is unabashedly about love,” she continues. “It is about the sparks you feel at first blush. That moment that stops you in your tracks. That feeling when the wind is knocked out of your lungs because someone is so interesting and commanding that you almost forget how to speak.” While it’s surprisingly hard to hear the words “electric love” without conjuring up the spectre of BØRNS‘ massive hit single, “Electric” succeeds at feeling fresh and new – like the love it represents.
Sweet sighs, passionate flute harmonies, and vibrant, waving melodies do their part to create a heavenly ambience as CLARA-NOVA tells a tale that’s been told time and again – each time, just as special as the last. You never know when love is going to hit, but when it does, its effects are immediate and everlasting. The same can be said of this song.