Doris datwaYโs latest single, โRomance and Flowers,โ arrived June 30, 2025, with its lush and dreamy dive into memory, heartbreak, and fleeting beauty. Written out of the embers of a love affair that carried him across Switzerland and Italy before closing in Verona, the song is the perfume after a summer night. Recorded in Arnhem and featuring guitarist Vitor Lince, who plays with precision and soul, the track gives you folk, jazz, indie, and Latin tinges alongside Dorisโ signature pop-lounge style. What could be described as bedroom-pop with a French tinged glow, it feels more like a diary entry wrapped in velvet tones.
The song opens with sparkling guitar riffs that shimmer against steady, thumping beats, creating an almost cinematic backdrop. As the track unfolds, horns rise lazily, blooming into the mix with a kind of golden-hour glow. They donโt rush but stretch out, like sunlight spilling across cobblestones in Verona, lending the song a laidback but bittersweet pulse.
The singer enters with his thick, hushed voice, singing softly, as if afraid the words themselves might dissolve if spoken too clearly. The voice comes with a slight blur, which helps manufacture the sensation of drifting in and out of a dream. Itโs not just about remembering love but about remembering how it felt to be inside it, fuzzy, heightened, and intoxicating.
Through the lyrics, we find that love has been perceived as something fragile, where โflowers,โ symbols of beauty are conveyed as that of impermanence, delicate, easily bruised, and destined to wilt. Doris leans into this tension, as the music embodies the sweetness and the ache.
By the time the track fades, angelic female harmonies appear, floating like ghosts of memory, soft and haunting. โRomance and Flowersโ by Doris datwaY just lets us sit inside the memory, in all its dreamy, aching tenderness.
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Review by: Naomi Joan