Distant Memories Swell

Esben and the Witch “Marine Fields Grow”

“Marine Fields Grow” is slight and airy, but it has an intense gravity to it. It’s the kind of song that reaches out and pulls you into its sad, weary, romantic emotional zone. The vocals sound pained and impossibly sad as they echo within these circular, hypnotic melodic patterns. It sounds like she’s singing around a void, or singing to something that is no longer there. It’s horrible to realize when something or someone is gone, and that you suddenly need to restructure the way you live to avoid falling into this hole that cannot be filled. Other songs are about moving on from that loss, but this one feels like it’s only about the pain of realizing that it’s there in the first place.

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