My Review: IAMTHESHADOW - So long, Lost

 

Iamtheshadow - So long, Lost

An inevitable form of seduction gravitates in the womb of a musician so pregnant with explorations, specifications, mental advances into the realm of mystery and its tangles, educating his compositional growth to reach the highest depths, conquering the listener and rendering them speechless.

Pedro Code with his IAMTHESHADOW (which includes the moving and talented Vitor J. Moreira) relies this time on the search for new sounds, focusing with analogue synths and analogue rhythm machines to electrify his visual perimeter in a different way.

The performance confirms his rising talent, while the shadowy areas (typical and essential) are further hypnotised and frozen in this ballroom where the protagonist struggles to survive.

The result is a wave that descends from the Serra de Sintra to connect the description of mental struggles to the impoverished surroundings.

Pedro sings with a lump in his throat, digging into his sensual low register, making friends with synthesizers to lull us with long sound waves.

The new look, with an attitude that projects the band towards a more robust muscular form, definitively confirms the need not to rest on their laurels: the song surpasses the long history of the Lisbon band and positions itself as an indicator for the new album to be released in 2026.

Old Writer is also struck by the lyrics: a mourning that encompasses people, faith, dreams, pain and struggles.

There is no surrender, but rather an honest and sweet sadness that underlines the inevitable human decline. Pedro forces us to close our eyes and alert our conscience so that it does not fall dormant.

This single resembles the only serious Christmas gift we could receive this year: where what is celebrated is something real, concrete, terribly human.

We dance with our backs bent but drunk with joy: the duo never ceases to amaze us and to lead us forward into the realm of pain that teaches us how to live...

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld 

Salford

19 - 12 - 2025

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Q9avdByMeDaD1ayzpLrhC?si=8xMM-HojTBKRJOBs_3RYBQ

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/so-long-lost/1860986751?i=1860986758