I Think

Deceptively simple, "I Think" was among Apollo's earliest recordings to circulate widely, and its directness is the point. The production is warm and unhurried—acoustic guitar, gentle percussion, a softness that makes space for vocal nuance over sonic spectacle. Apollo's voice here hasn't yet deployed all the range and technique he'd develop, which paradoxically makes the emotion feel more available, less mediated. The song circles around emerging romantic feeling with appropriate tentativeness—the "I think" of the title is doing real grammatical and emotional work, marking the territory between certainty and uncertainty where new feeling always lives. It's the kind of declaration you make to yourself first, testing the words before you'd ever say them to the other person. Lyrically it captures a very specific relational phase: past the question of whether you're attracted, not yet knowing what to do about it, sitting in the pleasant confusion of developing attachment. The bossa nova influence in the chord choices gives it a warmth that feels slightly out of time, like a song that existed before he recorded it. It's best heard alone, with headphones, in that state of low-grade romantic preoccupation.