There’s a deep, relentless ache on the coronary heart of Phosphene’s “Wandering” that pulls us shut because the Portland, Oregon dream pop duo create an area the place darkness, romance, and tender turbulence collide.

Stream: “Wandering” – Phosphene

You stated you have been slumbering, and me, I simply awakened. You stated you have been wandering, and me, I simply discovered….

Yes, the concept of falling in love en path to the afterlife sounds… poetic. Romantic, even. However Phosphene’s new track isn’t considered one of euphoric ecstasy, and it doesn’t essentially have a happily-ever-after ending. Moderately, there’s a deep, relentless ache on the coronary heart of “Wandering” – a mixture of uncooked concern and desperation radiating by way of heat sounds and tender beats; the sense of flailing round within the darkness, looking for an anchor of some variety to information us, soothe our souls, and inform us all the pieces going to be okay.

You stated you have been questioning
and I can’t replay
One thing that when struck concern
One thing crystal clear

You stated you have been slumbering
and me, I simply awakened
You stated you have been wandering
and me, I simply discovered

Atwood Journal is proud to be premiering “Wandering,” the third and last single taken off Phosphene’s third full-length album, Transmute (out September 15, 2023). Following earlier singles “Jigsaw” and “Black Sheep,” the enchanting “Wandering” is an enthralling, emotionally charged show of Phosphene’s simple skills as an ever-evolving entity, all the time pushing themselves as songwriters and aural architects.

The Portland, Oregon-based duo of Rachel Frankel (guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist) and Matt Hemmerich (drummer and guitarist) create a deeply intimate, gently atmospheric world of hypnotic surprise, mixing brooding guitars and syncopated drums with lilting strings and an entrancing vocal efficiency that, as one, invite us deep right into a world of fantasy, interior reckoning, and self-discovery:

Say you gained’t come again,
it’s you that makes this place (house once more)
Say you gained’t,
I’ll by no means love once more (as soon as once more)
Gown on up in black,
I’ll convey you a parade (right here once more)
Don’t resuscitate
I’ll by no means, I’ll by no means love once more

“‘Wandering’ tells the story of an individual who falls for somebody they cross paths with on their option to the afterlife,” the band inform Atwood Journal. “The tune was sonically impressed by an amalgam of jangle pop, Dying Cab for Cutie, and Digicam Obscura. It additionally marks a primary for our band, as we included digital string preparations to increase [our] sound.”

“Lyrically, I had a area day with this idea,” Hemmerich shares. “In America, we view dying by way of such a grim lens and permit it to stoke our worst imaginations. I wished to write down an anecdote the place that fright actively prevents the narrator from totally embracing their finish. It clouds their imaginative and prescient a lot that they imagine their infatuation with a whole stranger is one way or the other love. That concern of loneliness, particularly in romance, can result in acts of desperation. There’s a little bit of humor in there, although, and the track is buoyed all through by Rachel’s melody and the shimmering instrumental.”

Whereas in concept, the track’s visceral, aching lyrics and its propulsive music might sound at odds, the 2 go hand-in-hand to create a listening expertise crammed with rigidity. “I’ve all the time been interested by arranging, and this track’s vivid and open environment was conducive to lacing in some enjoyable Wall of Sound strings. It put me in a special headspace, having to assume and write as extra of a traditional composer,” Rachel Frankel provides.

You stated I used to be posturing
and I can’t repay
this debt that introduced me right here
I would like you, my expensive

As if I used to be pondering
It’s true, I gained’t get up
Will you retain me firm
earlier than we each black out?

“Wandering” is an intense reflection on our shared humanity: That temporality we so typically attempt to ignore, moderately than acknowledge and (dare I counsel it?) embrace as a key piece of the expertise. It’s a mild big carrying a heavy weight; a track that, whereas existential in nature, involves us like a well-known buddy: Able to consolation, pacify, and ease our frightened minds. Stream Phosphene’s newest single solely on Atwood Journal, and keep tuned for the band’s forthcoming third studio album.

Transmute is out September 15, 2023!

I’m aching, dwelled on all the times
that I made you chortle at me, I wrote
Don’t wake me, inform all of them the methods
that I light again into

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