Desire’s self-titled debut is a smouldering ache — saturnine synthesized pop about heartbreak & infinite longing, late nights by the telephone & break-up letters smeared by tears. Do you think this feeling can last forever? Beautiful girls & beautiful boys borrow cars and hit the road. “I lay awake all night long,” Megan Louise sings on the sprawling, forlorn “If I Can’t Hold You”, a blue cry of regret. “Sometimes it hurts so bad/I just don’t know what to do.” Desire is melancholic pop grandeur — the soundtrack to new love that feels like the end of the world.
Johnny Jewel discovered singer Megan Louise performing at a club in Montreal. So transfixed was he by her voice that he elected to mirror his Portland Suite 304 studio and create a second recording room in Quebec. “Desire is what you find in your immediate surroundings, your relationships with the people you love,” Jewel says of the project & how it compares to other acts on the Italians Do It Better label. “It’s not outer space & it’s not your loss — it’s the way you move through the world with other people.”
Produced & Mixed By Johnny Jewel
Artwork By Johnny Jewel
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Montre Moi Ton Visage (2:37)
Mirroir Mirroir (5:18)
Don’t Call (4:35)
Dans Mes Reves (5:22)
Under Your Spell (4:59)
Colorless Sky (3:54)
If I Can’t Hold You (7:20)
Part II (7:14)
