Less –"Instead of Making Love (Say Hello)"

There is something raw and quietly cinematic about Less. The artist born in Naples has a knack for taking life's static — the noise, the ache, the ash of growing up — and folding it into sound. Her latest single, "Instead of Making Love (Say Hello)," captures one era closing and another forthcoming slightly displaced. The song was recorded entirely with analog machines at Kapow Vintage Studio in Florence, leaving it with a satisfying hum of something like an old radio crackling away in a dark kitchen — warm, not perfect, and alive.

Here is Less at 22 somewhere in between the innocence of the past and the confident woman becoming. The song dances around textures from the early 2000s — slick but a bit frayed like denim faded from too many summers — while her voice carries irony and vulnerability in equal portions. There’s jest in the phrasing, heartbreak in the undertone, and the insinuation that she's closing the door on something more than just a partner — a version of herself?

Born in Naples and raised between Fano and Scandicci, Less inhaled leather and concrete throughout her childhood. As a daughter of artisans, she developed her resilience in the buildings she helped create long before her first guitar. At twelve, she turned to songwriting as a method of survival; by fourteen, it had become a form of storytelling. Her melodies evoke the journey of rediscovery — queerness, loss, isolation — while encapsulating the grit of a girl who kept singing whether or not anyone was listening.

"Instead of Making Love (Say Hello)" isn't just a single; it's a manifesto. A line in analog tape. A reminder that authenticity needs presence, not polish. As Less continues to climb from the underground scene in Florence, to Europe's festival stages, her music is the evidence that you can still hear the heartbeat in the static.