Now It’s Forever

Holy “Premonition / ◯ / It Shines Through”

Every sound in this track is bright and vivid, and neatly placed in the pocket of the drums, which are crisp and prominent in the mix. Every sound, that is, except for Hannes Ferm’s voice, which conveys a lovely melody but is otherwise entirely incomprehensible. This isn’t your standard mumble or the usual bury-the-voice-in-the-mix shoegaze thing. Ferm’s vocal is loud and clear, but smeared and slurred almost as though he’s deliberately trying to make it funny. It amuses me, anyway. It’s like a falsetto pushed into abstraction, or like a plaintive psychedelic ballad sung by the Swedish Chef.

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