In his latest release, “How?” 20-year-old Houston native Sir Taegen C’aion Harris, the soul behind Love Spells, makes his slow-burning confession as emotionally knotted as it is ethereal. “How?” is the sound of yearning draped in confusion, of moments that seem right even when wrong.
Love Spells draws you into a vulnerable, intimate realm where red flags are illuminated, then turned down, and lust plays dress-up as something heartier. It’s a song that hangs like smoke, enigmatic, mildly intoxicating, and hard to shake. Hovering over a minimalist arrangement, almost specter-like in texture, his vocalizes range from vulnerability to temptation.
There’s an exquisite tension in how he delivers each line, as if he’s entrapped in a cyclical emotional déjà vu, conscious of the threat but pulled in any way. “How?” doesn’t demand answers so much as it exposes the spiral that we, the audience, are all in when passion prevails over logic.
Love Spells describes the song as a more straightforward song, but that simplicity is precisely what blows it up so big. It’s not overwrought or entombed in metaphors. It’s honest. It’s the song you listen to alone at night, as the quiet grows a bit too loud and your mind returns to someone you should’ve let go of but didn’t. The Houston singer-songwriter has carved out a sound that feels otherworldly tender yet emotionally pointed, gentle but searing. “How?” continues that tradition, deepening the mystique he’s building with every release.
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