Wishful Thinking
I’ve always thought of an artist as someone who can articulate an often overshared feeling that ordinary people may not always know how to express, translating it into art. This idea is explored in “Wishful Thinking”, the latest single by Alfresco Love Sounds. As human beings, we feel constantly. We have ideas, impulses, and behaviours. As artists, we carry the responsibility of telling our stories and lived experiences, with the understanding that others may recognise their own truth in our words and melodies. As the title suggests, Alfresco Love Sounds convey a desire for their art to move people. Listening to the single, this comes through clearly. It feels as though there is a constant desire for sound, and art more broadly, to find resonance in someone else, somewhere else, despite the surrounding chaos. As the band sings, referring to the figure of the artist: “We’re all commanders of wishful thinking, now our sanity’s surely blinking, and sinking and shrinking.” In a time when connection and a shared sense of community increasingly feel left behind, encountering artists who still create not only for themselves but for others feels rare. Alfresco Love Sounds remind us not only of the importance of the personal creative process, but also of how essential sharing and caring remain, even within the exaggerated individualism of today.