Irish songwriter Echo Northstar returns from an ethereal horizon, carrying with him the haunting beauty of his new single, ‘creatures’. It’s the tender ache of love slipping through fingers—a bittersweet reflection on what was and what could have been.
This wouldn’t be Echo Northstar unless it was seemingly plucked out of the clouds of a nebula. His celestial vocals float weightlessly over reverbed echoes. Layers of this ghostly beauty are held together by the pull of what surrounds it, almost ready to break free and shatter at any moment. But there’s an almost Radiohead-like bounce to ‘creatures’, with its syncopated bass groove and ‘70s-sampled drums. It grounds you, even as the melody swirls upward.
Each line drips with a fragile intimacy, “If I had somewhere to fall inside / It was all at once when you were mine,” and memories of moments when time seemed to stop become ephemeral. ‘creatures’ is about losing that star that used to shine the brightest, the one you could always rely on to guide you home. Despite its longing, ‘creatures’ never sinks into despair. It floats, suspended in Echo’s orbit, as a bittersweet exploration of love’s vastness.
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