New Music Review - ‘Kiss Like This’ by Coast Arcade
Kiss Like This was released on the 10th November 2023.
Coast Arcade, the sweeties of New Zealand indie pop-rock have come back with their face melting track, Kiss Like This after hitting the ground running with their debut EP, Next to Me, released earlier in 2023.
Kiss Like This brings through this wind of bubbly, more pop-like punch from Coast Arcade, something that steers slightly away from what we are used to from the band and in all honesty, it’s nice to hear that they’re able to adapt to new moments with ease, ensuring that they discover themselves musically, allowing them to evolve in new light.
Bella and Thom, who are the two remaining original individuals from Coast Arcade, are this wildly dynamic duo who come together to ensure that what they play, and produce is unique to them in all releases, which sets Coast Arcade apart from the crowd. Kiss Like This takes this full force front seat mode of heat, throwing it to the world and essentially saying, “this is what we have to offer you, you can you like it, or you can love it” and I think that tells quite a story when a musical group can do this without physically saying those words out loud, but more so, demonstrates it.
Kiss Like This doesn’t overcomplicate things. Coast Arcade know what works for them and what doesn’t, without throwing this big challenge for listeners into the mix. Kiss Like This is an easy song to follow along with, they cast out those catchy hooks that you will be singing indefinitely. At the gym? You’ll be singing “I wish we could Kiss Like This…” constantly. Driving? The same. Asleep? Oh, this is when that will all come to you and you will be dealing with that earworm, even in your dreams.
In order to delve deeper into the work that Coast Arcade do, they have played around with slightly different genres and tweaked things that have clearly worked for them in the past and maybe put some that haven’t on the backburner. It is evident that through Kiss Like This, the maturity has risen. Whether that be through age or growth throughout the industry, Coast Arcade are on the track to make it into the international music scene and here at Welcome to the Gig, I could not be prouder to be on this journey with them and you should be, too.
Kiss Like This can be streamed on all good platforms for your entertainment right now, so I wouldn’t sleep on taking a listen to this punchy tune.
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Next to Me Review - WTTG