Daffo - "Absence Makes the Heart Grow"
Photo by Nolan Knight We first discovered Daffo with their holiday song "Winter Hat," which was one of our favorite holiday songs of 2024. Now they're back with "Absence Makes the Heart Grow," which is our first taste of their non-holiday sound. This new song is a fast paced alt-rock song that combines the sound of many of our 90's favorites with modern pop music. It's filled with jangly guitars and a ridiculously catchy chorus. The guitars drive the song forward and are the part that is going to hook you in. They're as jangly as they are crunchy, and Gabi Gamberg's vocals will make you want to stay. This is quite simply a fantastic song, and one of my favorite singles of 2025. Gabi Gamberg says of their latest single: “ I wrote the song at the end of a relationship, and in my pain, I felt as though the cliche about distance making the heart grow fonder was a sham. It made everything harder, the waves of emotion that accompanied reuniting and se...