“Summer Song” combines the flowery highs of nostalgia with that strange stagnancy that you feel when you return to the place you call home. The artful lo-fi pop tune from Canada based Diry Dev oscillates between moody and atmospheric production with quick-fire vocal delivery to add that layer of narrative depth where it needs to be. It’s about lazing around, enjoying the good and the bad of where you are in life. That contrast, the difference between the happiness that you see and the sheer depths of melancholy as well, highlights how change often leaves some off much worse than others.
There’s something strangely quaint yet keenly endearing about Dirty Dev’s “Summer Song”. It’s keenly littered with a plaintive yet wistful storytelling core that makes it all the more powerful.