Swim Into The Abyss

Charlotte Hatherley “White”

Charlotte Hatherley sounds as though she’s describing a pleasant dream — she’s in an immaculate, luxurious, impeccably designed room with a mysterious, seductive man who acts upon his attraction to her with style, and without hesitation. The lyrics are all images and sensations, provided without context but with precise, concrete detail. The song comes across like a lucid dream, with Hatherley blissfully lost in imagination and desire, but still somehow grounded in waking life. As the song slips from a dazed riff on the verses into a light disco reverie on the choruses, it feels like dancing about in a hypnagogic state, unsure of what’s real or not, but moving about in a peaceful haze. It’s an incredibly comfortable song, and perfectly evokes a kind of abstracted infatuation.

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