Ciao Lucifer’s “Do Do Do” is a song about the specific harm of caring too much, dressed in the kind of indie-pop that hits the ground running and only accelerates when the chorus lands. The Amsterdam duo wraps a counterintuitive argument inside a fizzing rush: absorbing someone else’s pain is not empathy, it is a way of taking the problem away from the person who needs to solve it. “Empathy can get the better of me,” they offer, which is either a confession or a warning depending on which side of that dynamic you have lived on.
The recording method is the argument made physical. Sunset Riders was recorded in three days with producer Simon Akkermans, nearly everything in a single take. Marnix handles the low end on a customised 10-string guitar with an extra pickup where a bassist would be, drums and vocals falling into place around it in real time. Since their Amsterdam high school days the duo have drafted songs at soundcheck and thrown them to a live crowd that same night, kept or shelved by morning. What survives that process is leaner than what careful studio attention produces.
“Do Do Do” arrives ahead of Sunset Riders, out September 25th, with Ciao Lucifer confirmed for The Great Escape and Focus Wales in May. Sometimes the kindest thing is to step back. The song knows this. It just makes stepping back sound like the best night of your life.
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