Thals is a half-Columbian, half-Spanish musician who channels indie and skate culture to make aggressively honest scratchy pop music. Lo2Hi sees that sound land in the form of a weightless shoe-gaze melody, bristling with angsty nervousness and stubborn hopefulness.
That sound makes sense when you reflect on the fact that Lo2Hi is channeling the swinging anxiety that comes as you fall in love… The lows and highs you only experience when you begin to place your happiness in the hands and at the mercy of another person. I love the moment here where the song melts into the bridge, evoking the weightless, listless feeling that falling in love conjures.
Lo2Hi arrives in a flurry, and it feels like the excitement and rush of both a heart stopping conversation with a crush and a jaunt on a skateboard all at once. Check out the video below, which has me really missing London as I near my first anniversary of enforced working from home: