Irish singer/multi-instrumentalist Conor Furlong sprang back onto the music scene in late July to unveil a magnificently mellifluous, terrifically passionate and wonderfully rousing single named “Teenage Fantasies”, which was taken from his soon-to-be-released fourth full-length record, Recurring Dream, and quickly acquired a plethora of praise from a multitude of media outlets in his homeland, including this one.
Now, less than a month after dropping “Teenage Fantasies” upon the planet, Furlong, whose music is influenced by the likes of A-ha, R.E.M., Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Beach Boys, David Bowie, AIR, The Monkees, Phil Spector and Mercury Rev as well as painters and film composers such as Monet, Miro, Dali, Hundertwasser, Van Gogh and Bernard Herrmann, and who composes songs, according to the musician himself, with the aim of making “music that [he loves] and [with the] hope that you might love it too”, has just released the second single from Recurring Dream, “Your Touch”, which, like the rest of his material, was written, arranged, performed and produced by Furlong alone.
The unsurprisingly enthralling three and a half minute offering opens with an exhibition of delightfully upbeat instrumentation that precedes a superbly animated verse during which the music remains delightfully upbeat underneath typically tuneful and splendidly expressive singing as it leads the way to a marvellously lively and melodious chorus. This is succeeded by another exhibition of delightfully upbeat instrumentation that escorts the song in the direction of a second magnificently lively and melodious chorus, after which the whole thing culminates in one last exhibition of delightfully upbeat instrumentation. The end result is another magnificently mellifluous, terrifically passionate and wonderfully rousing pop/rock tune from Furlong that, like “Teenage Fantasies”, is sure to satisfy its creator’s established fans while simultaneously turning plenty of new heads in his direction.
You can investigate “Your Touch” for yourself via its official music video below.
“Your Touch” is also available to stream on Spotify and download on iTunes, along with “Teenage Fantasies”, now. Their upcoming parent compilation is due to drop in its entirety on September 17th.