WL//WH Video Of The Day Last Leaf Down
Surfaced in 2003 as purveyors of a Katatatonia-inflected heavy doom metal style, Switzerland five-piece group Last Leaf Down veered, with the arrival of Benjamin Schenk and Sascha Jeger in 2007, toward evolving “Bright Wide Colder” imaginations of a signature “dreamy shoegaze from the woods.”
After a seven-year hiatus, the band is ready to resume their mesmerizing atmospheric and naturalistic Post-Rock infused Shoegaze narrative through the visuals for the new single “Silence,” building anticipation for a new studio album set to be released in the Spring of 2025 via Lifeforce Records.
An immersive, stirring song about when a person finds themself alone in a discomforting silence, and an obsessive fear of reverting back to the brokenness and failure of the past takes hold,
“Silence” unfolds relentlessly weaving layers of soft yet strong, introspective and vibrant wistful guitars through maddening emotional sways, causing chilly cutting swathes to shiver and radiate above a chugging river of abrasive misty riffs, humming bass pulses and stumbling drum beats. At the same time, dreamy agonized vocals, and ghostly expanding echoes, struggle to hold on before switching to gently anxious, frightened cries, regretfully repeating “It feels like I’ve lost myself.”
In the Official Video, a man stands small against a beautiful fresh country mountainside where bright sun rays begin to pierce a dim twilight fog. He starts to run, uninhibited, through a flowery field and white dandelion tufts start to float like ethereal feathers all around himself. Then, as if it was all a dream, he disappears into a mysterious open horizon.
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