{"id":50615,"date":"2019-06-16T11:27:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T10:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=50615"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:19:36","slug":"unintended-strangers-meet-across-the-internet-and-make-beautiful-music-together-with-cross-world-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/06\/unintended-strangers-meet-across-the-internet-and-make-beautiful-music-together-with-cross-world-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Strangers Meet Across The Internet And Make Beautiful Music Together With Cross World Collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet has definitely taken a hold of most of our lives, and ultimately it’s up to us to decide if we’re going to let it rule our lives, or embrace it and let it work for us. The latter is certainly the case for Unintended Strangers, an indie\/folk duo comprising Robert Griffin in the US, and Chloe Danz, of New Zealand, who after a chance meeting online back in November 2017 decided to join forces as a musical project.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

They discovered they had a musical chemistry, and a shared love of acoustic, pared back and honest music, so although still living in their respective countries, they started making music together, via emails, home recordings, voice notes and Skype.<\/p>\n

Moving on they set on a new challenge: with each taking to a local studio, Unintentional Strangers started recording and sending tracks back and forth, until they had put together a complete body of work. Their debut single, ‘Beautiful Disaster’, was released on December 7, 2018, with their self titled first EP out on January 25 this year.<\/p>\n

‘Nothing Is Forever’, from their EP, is a gentle folky track, featuring acoustic guitar, violin, and Chloe’s crisp clear vocals, supported by Robert. There’s a vibe of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper singing ‘Shallow’ – it’s a deeply emotive track, which tears at your heart strings as they sing of making the best of it, because nothing is forever – it’s a picture of a doomed relationship – there’s been hurt on both sides, but they’re going to give it a go “just for one night”. The violin adds even more melancholy to the track, and if you weren’t bawling already you will be when you reach the last third of the song, when the violin trembles and – as much as it’s possible for an instrument to do so – actually sounds like it’s crying.<\/p>\n