It Changes Shape With You

School of Seven Bells “Wired For Light”

“Wired For Light” imagines sleep as a state in which a person can perform a sort of psychic surgery on their unconscious mind, and actively shape their identity and perceptions by asserting conscious influence over their dreams. As suggested in the opening line, this sort of lucid dreaming requires practice and skill, and so the song is balanced between evoking this surreal, ethereal astral plane, and conveying the focus and discipline necessary to explore the deepest recesses of one’s own psyche. Despite the song’s consistent tone and textural palette, the arrangement is constantly shifting, giving the listener a sense of moving through a dark, unknown place with only a small light to illuminate a path that does not conform to a 3D understanding of space. The song is sung by two women with nearly identical voices, and when they sing in unison, they sound ever so slightly out of phase, making them seem like a slightly alien — or post-human? — guide through an extraordinarily calm adventure.

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