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Snow II was mixed and produced by Berlin-based Cork musician and producer Wife and London-based Mix Engineer Neil Comber (Glass Animals, Florence & The Machine), who were drafted in to work their magic on the band’s new material.įor our 8th Voyage of Discovery newsletter, we’ve decided to mix it up a bit. “Darkness falls, The sky is white, Street lights, Inside the candle burns … And I know my love grows, Like the silence of snow” “ It’s about wanting to comfort them, but you can’t speak to them or hold them like you might have when you were in a relationship, and how sad and confusing that is.” Snow II is the version of the original the band “ always imagined it would sound like“. Inspired in part by the Simon & Garfunkel classic, I am a Rock, the song was written from the perspective of the person trying to reach an ex lover who is in that dark place, cutting themselves off from the world.” explains Caoimhe Barry. The falling snow covers the world outside, creating a disconnect that causes us to retreat indoors, just as during the dog days of a dysfunctional relationship, we pull down shutters to cut ourselves off, creating an emotional no-man’s land that keeps us outside touching distance. Snow II captures the spectral beauty of snow, as well as its unerring ability to eradicate our personal landscapes. Snow obscures familiar objects, rendering them strange and ghostly to us. “It sifts from leaden sieves, It powders all the wood, … Then stills its artisans like ghosts, Denying they have been” – Emily Dickinson The overall effect is one of soulful, unnerving intimacy.
Textured layers and subtle strands are interwoven into the song’s melodic and harmonic progression as it evolves into sensual, bass-driven bluesy RnB. The track opens with repetitive solo beat and sparse synth chords that provide the perfect open soundscape for Caoimhe Barry’s intuitive vocal, one into which she pours just the right amount of expressive nuance. While the same interwoven vocal harmonies preside, the instrumental takes on more prominence with the inclusion of pulsating synth beats – recalling the heart beating in the “womb” – and a more vocal electric guitar. The key change comes in the form of additional textures and atmospherics. In the re-worked Snow II, Wyvern Lingo have retained much of the spaciousness of the original.
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