Super Love Breaks Genre Boundaries and Celebrates Individuality on Their Latest Album 'Sounds of Seance'

New York City alternative rock duo Super Love is making a statement with their sophomore album, Sounds of Seance. This genre-defying collection celebrates individuality, creative freedom, and the courage to embrace life's uncertainties. Released through 88th Street Records, the ten-track project blends rock, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and R&B, showcasing the band's refusal to settle into a single musical identity.

Formed in 2019 by lead vocalist Constance Watkins and multi-instrumentalist Jared Watkins, Super Love has developed what they call an “autonomous indie” sound. Their latest release expands on that philosophy, delivering an ambitious musical journey centered on empowerment, connection, and self-discovery.

The opening track, “You and Me,” introduces the album's rebellious optimism through Motown-inspired pop, encouraging listeners to stand together against doubt and expectations. “Let's Be Rockstars” follows with glam-punk attitude and a celebration of individuality. Meanwhile, “Vibes” shifts into alternative hip-hop territory with a message about trusting your instincts and pursuing unconventional ideas.

The album's versatility shines on “Feel the Rhythm,” an R&B-inspired celebration of urban energy, and “Walking Disaster,” which embraces theatrical cabaret jazz to introduce a dangerously captivating character.

Elsewhere, “Bored” explores loneliness through alternative techno-rock, while “The Real Me” combines Latin-inspired rhythms and cabaret influences to examine the freedom found in authentic self-expression.

“The Moon” introduces a more reflective perspective on embracing change, while “Tell Me” confronts emotional exhaustion through progressive rock-pop arrangements. A closing orchestral edition of “Bored” offers another interpretation of the album's more introspective material.

Sounds of Seance is particularly interesting for its commitment to musical unpredictability without abandoning its central message. Rather than treating genres as boundaries, Super Love uses them as different vehicles for storytelling.

With their second album, Super Love encourages listeners to reject limitations, embrace uncertainty, and recognize the power of being unapologetically themselves.

Sounds of Seance moves between rock, hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and pop without committing to one particular sound. How do you decide which musical direction best serves each song, and what keeps the album feeling cohesive despite those shifts?

Sounds of Seance is a concept album in disguise. We are deeply inspired by the Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”and Queen’s “Night at the Opera”. We have our process where we jam and write, and we get so into it that what we want emerges and we carefully set it up into the story we want to tell. If we feel like our idea shares ideas with jazz, the song goes there. And if the idea has another vibe, it takes us there instead.

You've described your music as “autonomous indie.” What does that philosophy mean to Super Love, and how has it evolved between your debut album and Sounds of Seance?

Autonomous Indie is about artists making what we want the way we want it because the results are fire. When they talk about catching lightning in a bottle,that’s what we’re hoping to find more of. Autonomy is the currency of the future. It means free to guide yourself. It means making what you feel instead of as directed. It makes it easier to fill it with soul and heart instead of typically making commissioned art. The indie part just describes that our music is not the nominal music industry product, which we also enjoy! We’re empowered to make “autonomous indie” music and art, and so we do it now, early.

“The Real Me” explores the contrast between conforming to expectations and embracing your authentic identity. How much of that story reflects your own experiences as artists navigating the music industry?

“The Real Me” 100% comes from our experience. And neither of us think we’re alone on this. The lyrics are about having to be two different ways in a day: the work one that conforms, and the other one afterward that makes it’s own choices. It’s more relevant than ever in music industry. As an artist, it’s common to sign a deal and make the music under the new client’s direction.

But even in music, industry so easily makes the you not the “real you.” But “The Real Me” offers an alternate idea: I sing my heart. I draw a crowd. I’m the real me.

“Walking Disaster” introduces a theatrical, almost cinematic character through cabaret jazz. What inspired that particular story, and do you find yourselves approaching songwriting differently when creating fictional characters?

If you’re looking for dirt on someone, then I’m sorry to disappoint you. The “Walking Disaster” is me. And in case it’s you too, don’t worry: It’s not only you. Also the song stands as a warning that some people just don’t change, even though you seem to be talking about them anyway. Did someone blow you a curse? Did it light your fuse? And on the fictional character question, fictional characters are based on something real. We’re writing from the heart, there is no need to make up something fictional. It’s all real.

As a duo, you bring together Constance's vocals and Jared's multi-instrumental approach. How does your creative partnership work behind the scenes, and what did making your second album teach you about each other's artistic instincts?

Jared also sings on many of the tracks including “Let’s Be Rockstars”, “Tell Me”, etc. and Constance plays keys and guitar. Our behind the scenes approach is to take something and check if it sounds good. If there’s heat, we add it to something else hot. If we get fire, we keep working on it. We each keep a ideas written down about either lyrics or music, and sometimes those ideas just sit there. But sometimes, the idea’s time has arrived and it flies out where we catch it in a bottle. Thanks for the lovely interview!