I was scared to fight someone like you.
I was scared to realize my mistakes.
That you’d lie to anyone.
And die to anyone
Tymbro, the solo project of Gianpiero Timbro, seems drawn to the charged space between composition and design, where a song can behave like a room with constantly changing proportions. On Skin, he joins Dear Company, the Rome-based duo of guitarist and composer Martino Cappelli and vocalist Elisa Pambianchi, for a piece of restrained electro-pop that treats intimacy as a fragile arrangement, made tender by the threat of collapse.
The track moves with a careful economy. Its electronics are spare but alert, leaving enough air around Pambianchi’s voice for each phrase to feel exposed without turning theatrical. Cappelli’s presence gives the music a quiet pressure, a sense of shape forming at the edges, while Timbro’s background in ambient, post-rock, and audiovisual work can be heard in the way the arrangement prefers suggestion to excess. The result is sleek and uneasy, polished without becoming sealed off from feeling.
Skin is preoccupied with the strange cruelty of closeness: the way desire can become surveillance, the way fear can dress itself as caution, the way a person can reach out while already preparing to withdraw. Its emotional drama is compact, almost clinical, yet the track never feels cold. Dear Company’s affinity with dark pop and cinematic restraint gives the song a bruised elegance, with traces of Chromatics, London Grammar, Beach House, Daughter, and TR/ST present as points of reference rather than a borrowed wardrobe.
Simone Serafini’s black-and-white video sharpens the song’s private unease. Following a couple (including Giovanni Santolla of The Spoiled) through rooms, exteriors, glances, and separations, it borrows something from the clipped seduction of 1990s advertising (think: David Lynch’s perfume commercials) while stripping away the promise of glamour. Bodies share space, then fail to inhabit it together. The editing stresses distance as much as contact, letting attraction curdle into misrecognition.
“We wanted Skin to feel intimate but unstable, like a moment of connection constantly slipping away,” says the artist.
Tymbro and Dear Company have made a small, precise drama out of touch and retreat, where the skin is both threshold and barricade, and where the most painful distance is measured in inches.
Watch the video for Skin below:
Skin is out May 28 via Pop-up Records. Pre-save here.
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