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Multiple Love

Released May 7th 2012

Sometimes it’s the simple things in life that can make you the happiest. Sometimes it’s the simplest of things that are the most beautiful. I give you exhibit A: Paper Aeroplanes new single Multiple Love.

One piano, one vocal. When it comes to simple music there’s not much less you can have really. The sound here, however, is far from simple, it is simply stunning. A tale told over a million times before in a million and one different ways but so often not as touching as this. Multiple Love doesn’t use gimmicks, not unless you call harmonies a gimmick, and I surely don’t. It doesn’t use overly complicated chord structures or complex time signatures. There’s nothing arrogant about this, everything, even the production feels sparse and open. It’s so intimate to listen to that everything around seems to stop and I really felt that this was something private. That moment you lift a glass to a wall to hear what someone is saying (yes I have, and no it doesn’t, work that is), imagine though that you heard something really private and intimate. You wouldn’t feel one hundred percent comfortable but equally I bet you wouldn’t stop listening.

Simple sounds, stunning vocals, secret listening and sad sentiments all combine here to produce something maddeningly good. This will certainly be the first of many appearances on Popped for Paper Aeroplanes I assure you.

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