Wintery, atmospheric, somnambulant and soothing, How Love Bends is a whole mood.
Listeners will feel suspended in a snow globe for this album’s entire duration, surrounded by floating glitter fragments that represent our love-related hopes and dreams.
“I just wanna be adored” – me too, gurl! Doesn’t everyone? The aptly titled Come Down is your soundtrack for teary Tuesdays. City leaves us in a similar mood to The Smiths’ Asleep, pensive with exactly the right amount of pathos.
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The beseeching Ring Ring urges a romantic prospect to “figure it out” and reciprocate interest: “Can’t you be my lover in time?” Over Joy/ed sounds like the complete opposite of its title. Luxuriating in its stately pace, this standout brings the Twin Peaks soundtrack to mind.
Every single cinematic song on here is syncable (especially Everyday Fitness and Memorial, which is just begging to accompany closing credits), so it comes as no surprise that Aotearoa’s Reb Fountain is also an award-winning original score composer (for Escaping Utopia, a three-part doco about Gloriavale, NZ’s most extreme religious cult).
Elsewhere: funereal keys underscore the spoken word He Commands You To Jump Into The Sea, the strings-enhanced Drake brings high drama and Forever’s rolling cymbal crashes conjure an endless string of dumping waves.
How Love Bends is for those who choose to dance in the shadows. Think PJ Harvey meets Aldous Harding.
LABEL: THE ORCHARD
RELEASE: OUT NOW
