Nightosphere are a self-described ‘newborn’ three-piece out of Kansas City, Missouri. After years of friendship, the trio decided to start jamming together, with Claire Delaney and Brittany Sawtelle trading guitar/vocals and bass duties between songs, and Dekota (hop) Trogdon on drums. What emerged is a style which draws on slowcore, shoegaze and dream pop influences, a shadowy sound which juxtaposes a sense of space with intricate detail, as well as fragility and weight. Debut single ‘Foxfire’ introduced the aesthetic, a stark and creeping piece prone to spikes of intensity, the vocals delivered with reverent foreboding as though offered to the night sky.
Today we’re delighted to share the second Nightosphere single, ‘Faim Dévorante’. A song more fierce and taut than the previous track, at least initially, its intro snapping to life with real purpose in the kind of mean-eyed clarity you might expect from earlier Pedro the Lion. But the energy breaks to leave something more expansive if no less foreboding, as though the energy hasn’t dissipated so much as dispersed across a wide sweep of space. The vocals arrive within this charged quiet, crooned gently but masking some underlying tension, the consuming hunger alluded to in the title perhaps, every aspect of the track pulled by the latent force within its structure, waiting for a spark to ignite the blaze.
Watched a spider crawl down your arm
While you fixed your sharp eye on me
Everything you have you took from someone else
But you say you still feel emptyDon’t look at me
when you’re thirsty
Don’t look at me
when you’re hungry
Artwork by Laura Benson, photo by Lindsey Yoneda