Swedish progressive band Wolverine have released the latest single, ‘This World And All Its Dazzling Lights’, taken from their comeback album, Anomalies. The album – their first in a decade – will be released on 6 February via Music Theories Recordings. Watch the video to the new song HERE.
‘This World And All Its Dazzling Lights’ carries an elegant, effortless beauty — a warmth that unfurls around the listener in luminous layers. As Stefan Zell sings, “How we came to be, how we came to see, This world and all its dazzling lights, Splashing through a wave of time across the sky, A sense of beaming light inside of me,” the music sweeps you upward, spiralling toward the sky as though lifted by its own radiant tide. The song however hides a darker lyrical narrative as it twists and winds beneath the current.
Talking about the song Zell says. “This is a really special song to me. I think it’s one of the best songs we’ve written, although, at the same time, I think it will challenge many of our fans. I loved the way the vocal melodies and the lyrics just came to me back when we wrote it. It was all a very fluid experience, much like the song itself.”
Co-songwriter and drummer Marcus Losbjer adds, “A song that means different things for different people, positive or negative. For me, it is about the society we live in today with filter bubbles, fake news and information/impression overload in general.”
It’s been a decade since the Söderhamn quintet last released a full album, 2016’s Machina Viva, and four years since their last EP, 2021’s A Darkened Sun, raised hopes that they were back with a vengeance.
Now, singer Stefan Zell is brimming with enthusiasm, fired up by the knowledge that his band – the Machina Viva line-up of Jonas Jonsson (guitar), Thomas Jansson (bass), Marcus Losbjer (drums), and Per Henriksson (keyboards) are to release a bold new album.
The first song taken from the album was ‘A Perfect Alignment’ – which is the first part of a trilogy of songs on the album, alongside ‘Circuits’ and the album’s opening track ‘A sudden demise’.
Throughout their career, Wolverine have always carried a similar dark emotional heft to their fellow countrymen Katatonia, driven by a sonic wall of sound. Lyrically too, Zell’s lyrics pack a powerful emotional punch, and on Anomalies he’s at his peak, drawing on those years of exasperation.
Wolverine’s trials and tribulations to get to Anomalies have given Zell plenty of subject matter, as has his own personal life. “I look at all our songs as small snippets of a diary. If you look back through the catalogue, it’s my life as a writer. It’s so amazing to have these snippets of time documented in this way. But I really feel that there are a lot more questions asked about life, ageing, and values. It’s nothing we even thought about when we were in our 20s. It evolves.”
Track listing
1. A Sudden Demise
2. My Solitary Foe
3. Circuits
4. Nightfall
5. This World And All Its Dazzling Lights
6. Automaton
7. A Perfect Alignment
8. Losing Game
9. Scarlet Tide
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