Leo Golo’s latest single, “Too Close,” which features the velvet vocalist ANGE, together they walk the thin edge between a tropical cocktail and a deflated balloon, and somehow, it doesn’t drop either. You wouldn’t think confusion could sound so contagious, but here we are. It’s a song that laments unrequited love but folds it inside a sunny Afrobeat riff that practically forces your feet into motion—like laughing at a funeral, only less awkward.
Here’s the thing about “Too Close”: it doesn’t chase after some grand emotional revelation. No, Leo Golo is way too sly for that. He lets the familiarity of pop—all those shimmering synths and tight rhythms—lull you into thinking you know what’s coming. But then, with a flick of an afrobeat wrist, the chorus hits and the song wraps its arms around the very emotion it warns against, with Golo coming off like the friend you definitely shouldn’t be taking love advice from… and yet, you do.
Thematically, the single is soaked in duality. It’s warm outside, but cold inside. It’s upbeat but drenched in romantic confusion. Golo uses sound and space like a painter too preoccupied with vibrant colors to care about staying inside the lines. There’s air in this track—space for your thoughts to bounce around like a rubber ball lost in a city street. It’s not a deep dive into heartbreak but more the fragmented feeling you get when you’re texting someone who’s ghosted you, only to see them pop up in your Instagram feed, smiling with someone else. Sweet but stinging.
And sure, you could dance to it. But the real question is: Can you listen to feel nothing about it…or are you, too, too close?
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