My Review: Loom - The Dream Is Over

 My Review:

Loom - The Dream Is Over

Kalmar is an unknown place, impervious and unbearable, like everything that is distant.

Music shrinks things which seem unreachable and, bringing them to our chests, gives us an unexpected embrace.

For twenty-seven years four young men, facing their Baltic Sea, have been rummaging through feelings, tuning them to the intention of making them visible, practicable and solemn. They employ arcs of musical intelligence that makes them have no limits to cross the water composed of particles of melancholic Shoegaze, with Postpunk which supervises the whole and sprinkles of salt that contain journeys of an elegant Alternative. And finally they layer indie Rock to leave a sense of muscularity that goes with everything, like a classic suit over sneakers.

Their latest murderous charm is The Dream Is Over, which for the old scribe is absolutely the song he gave the difficult role of representing the brightest tune of the year.

Lyrics that make tears flow from our brain to the tips of our toes: a new salt lake in which we can dive, in which we can find dreams paralyzed by a reality that opposes, oppresses, kicks to reach the goal of extinguishing even the strongest faith.

In a corollary of shimmering guitars, capable of being rhythmic and dizzying, one dances curved but reassured by Evelina Nicklasson's miraculously angelic voice that rises and plummets like her words, tattooed on the rhythmic precipices of Frederick Axelsson, the guardian of every murderous impulse, because we often come to believe that feedback and his wah-wah are sharp knives aimed at defending us from senseless gestures. But one might think instead that he is the one who actually causes them: a mystery of music, to be contemplated.

Roland Klein, Henrik Viberg and Eddie Wilmin (producer and additional musician) are the masons who raise the sound system to lead it to the sky, in a chant that reaches the emotion with virulent and melancholic splashes.

And we drown in an escape that defeats all intentions, with the Baltic Sea blessing this poignant song with a telluric current that will inhabit your ecstasy colored with Nordic and perfect tears...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

30th December 2022

https://loom2.bandcamp.com/track/the-dream-is-over

https://open.spotify.com/album/1wVr4HHOIm1vJlcbKoYIOE?si=qpE7c2_FTBaQOCmHGLPeDw