Philly slowcore balladeers Nyxy Nyx have been leaving their creative faucets open, filling up the tub with a rewarding discography since the mid-aughts. Ears to Feed covered their recent split with the similarly prolific lo-fi rockers Bad History Month at the tail end of last year, and we are premiering their brand new single “I Love You So Much” today.
The tune is taken from Nyxy Nyx’s brand new split EP with Sun Organ and Sandcastle entitled Made For This Life, out on February 14 via Blight Records. While it’s not necessarily something that you would play for your Valentine, the song co-written by Nyxy Nyx’s Brian Reichart and Sun Organ’s Tim Jordan is a downtempo stunner that unfolds piercing feelings of intense longing in its brief two-minute runtime.
With an eerie mellotron and strummed out acoustic guitar chords that creak below Reichart’s hushed double-tracked vocals, the song feels like it should be the length of an entire lovelorn walk through a dreary countryside. Once the song starts, it makes the listener feel as though they have walked into a musical movement that has been in progress for minutes already and could potentially last forever.
“Trying here to catch my breath / Just so I can tell you that I love you so much,” Reichart sings, with a timeless sentiment of how love can leave us bewildered and permanently flustered. If we are not kidding ourselves, do we really want anything more than to tell our crushes that we “just want to put my arms around” them? As he states his intent in the song’s chorus, Reichart makes no mistake that he’s out for the real thing.