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Amanda Bergman by Julia Mård
Amanda Bergman releases it on January 16th next year.
Amanda Bergman was at ABBA’s old Stockholm studio base Atlantis Metronome for the recording of her new album ’embraced for a second as we die’.
It’s been announced with two tracks, ‘mexico’ and ‘is this how you said you’d be gone’, which are streaming online now – the latter about, ‘the stunned stillness after sudden loss, how loss and grief sometimes rearranges your life’:
“Some relationships – even when someone has died or drifted away – can feel just as vivid, sometimes even more so, than those still present.”
For me, the inner conversations I have with my dad and grandma, for example, can feel as real as birdsong, even though they are long since gone. I’ve stopped questioning it and instead learned to use it – not unlike how I’d honour my children’s fantasies, not for their content but for their truth.
“Sometimes the body and the mind agree on a kind of truth that logic can’t touch.”
embraced for a second as we die tracklist:
common, like the end
mexico
grasp
groby
sick of time
never known like that
is this how you said you’d be gone
a mindless dark
ours is a silent sun
the moon in e minor