The album "Lettres d’amour" consists of music put together over a continuous period of 9 years (2016-2025), during which Oláh and Caserotto worked intimately with two sound engineers, Linus Andersson (SE) and Baptiste Germser (FR), frequently visiting the studios Elementstudion in Gothenburg and Studio Atelier 18 in Paris. The collaboration contributed to a model of album recording in which the process has been given time to allow the music to mature before release. The result is a slow-grown music, which has carefully taken form, starting with free improvisations transformed into written compositions, thoughtfully arranged and ultimately produced into 10 individual titles.
The album "Lettres d’amour" is a tribute to love - big and intangible, eternal and inexhaustible. Rooted within the long tradition of serenades, performed throughout the centuries by troubadours accompanying their voices with a lute (or later, the guitar), Oláh and Caserotto take the historic storytelling format into the 21th century. Passing their serenades through a jumble of cables and pedals, provides their unique and individual sound, as well as allows the songs to exist in the liminal space between the celestial and the grounded.
The duo Lovers take the musical hymns out of the floating air, they bring them back to earth, and plant them – like the feral seeds of Baudelaire. In their newly shaped form, the songs capture the multiplicity of love; the grittiness just as much as the grace, the foul as well as the fine; letting harmony and dissonance sound together in complex and evocative unisons. The poetic duality is present throughout the album but is particularly striking during the track “Beautiful things.” Exploring the beauty in failure and submission, Oláh and Caserotto commence from chaotic celestial harmonies, gradually installing an arid landscape of sub-bases and glitches, serving as a backdrop for the monotone melody. Each verse brings us further into the scenery as the single and initially ominous voice gradually multiplies, developing into a comforting cushion of harmony, underlining the insisting message: “Giving in, is the most beautiful thing.”
The last words of the album are delivered in the classical undying format of atraditional popsong. The last phrase reads: “…I love you still, and I always will” – it’s sentimentality in its purest form, a final gentle caress, which rocks us comfortably into a nostalgic state where we can choose to linger or rather, once the album has struck its final note, hit the repeat button and plunge back into the intricate universe created by the multifaceted duo signed Lovers.
