Losing + Glassy Eyes

The Swedish synth-pop phenomenon Kites second 7" since signing at DAIS in 2023, finds the duo of Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Hutchinson Berg for new heights of romantic desolation and baroque splendor. They describe the A Side, "Losing," as a "six-minute empty call for emotional response." Delightful piano and angulated voice echo in a vaulted hall before gradually developing into a widescreen anthem of synths, drums, and rising vocals that describe the steady killing of life and love: "It's deadly quiet in your old heart/Are you there? / I see dark skies on the rise / And daylight shows no remorse / And I realize it is my life / But it's losing all meaning." Swedish dark music icons Anna von Hausswolff and Henric de la Cour join the choir as the song cascades toward an ominous horizon. The B Side, "Glassy Eyes" features Kite's mastery of the gloomy, sweeping balladry. Hushed Church organ lifts and anchores Stenemo's devastated confession that wavers between resilience and defeat. The band describes the song as a reckoning with "the privileged and existential fear of passionately drifting through life," as opposed to "the longing to connect deeply with others and the desire for experiences that stir the soul before facing the last moments." Like a hymn, the emotion thickens as it deepens, approaches both darkness and divinity: "Deep as I go, nothing to find / Oh catatonia, I won't cry / Nothing can grow, everything dies / Behind my glassy eyes."

Number of Discs: 1

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