Earlier in the month we previewed Everythingness, the new album by atmos bloom forthcoming via Spirit Goth that not only sees the London duo position themselves as one of the most exciting recent products of the contemporary shoegaze revival, but also play with the implications of working within a style that will always have some element of retrospection. “There’s an inherently nostalgic sensibility to this style of music, but Tilda Gratton and Curtis Paterson craft something caught between reflection and forward motion,” we wrote, “charting the sometimes difficult space between youth and adulthood, looking to push life in new directions while pining for the old days too.”
After lead single ‘Everything’, which wrestled with “the impossible task of trying to be everything all at once, balancing all that life throws at you whilst trying to find yourself and your place amidst it all,” as the band themselves put it, atmos bloom have now returned with brand new track ‘Closer’. Attempting to move beyond the conundrum of its predecessor, the single finds Gratton and Paterson looking for contentment in the present and the constant change it represents. Something achieved with a woozy, almost ethereal sound that sits on a knife edge between lucidity and dreams, sanding the edges off of reality in order to consider it more fully.
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