Uruguayan singer/songwriter Juan Wauters teams up with the soft spoken Frankie Cosmos on “Modus Operandi,” the second single off of Wauters’ forthcoming album, Wandering Rebel. “Modus Operandi” is a gentle and oddly comforting musing about NYC transplant culture and is accompanied by a fantastic music video where the two roam around large, tourist driven areas in their respective cities (Frankie Cosmos in NYC and Wauters in Montevideo, Uruguay).
The song opens with beautiful acoustics accompanied by a classical string section as Cosmos questions where everyone has gone, singing,
“I was walking down 14th street / Couldn’t help to wonder where’s / everyone gone / The streets are empty out here / Everywhere I go, I hear it’s the end of the / season for the NYC”
Wauters then responds to her cosmopolitan reflections with the repeated chorus as the acoustics, bass, drums, and strings all build into an almost cinematic sound.
“See, it might be just my opinion, but it’s / happened time and time again / that when it gets rough out here / people that have options go back to their suburbs / to them, it was some kind of Disney world / some kind of commodity”
Cosmos’ and Wauters’ vocals blend fluidly in the final chorus. The production allows the instrumentation room to breathe, giving a breezy sense of solace throughout the social commentary of “Modus Operandi.” The music video has elements of cinema that really complement the song’s story. As a fan of the two, this single blew me away.
watch the music video for “Modus Operandi” here:
listen to “modus operandi” on Spotify:
Sidney Parish
Sidney lives in New Orleans, LA, where she attended Loyola University New Orleans and graduated with a degree in Music Industry Studies. Since then, she has found herself enjoying Artist Management, A&R, and Music Coordination.
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