Somnia by Swimming Bell (Perpetual Doom)

Swimming Bell
Somnia
Perpetual Doom

Let’s start with the bad news. Swimming Bell’s latest album is only five songs long. It’s not enough. I yearn for more, and you will understand once you wrap your consciousness around these songs.

Katie Schottland composes music so freeing that you feel like you are in suspended animation, floating into some visceral meditative state guided by the art of the senses. Derived from modern indie folk, it does not purposefully feel like that. These songs are designed to get lost into; to feel the soft wrap of the snare, the way percussion accentuates the sound design within the room.

“Meet My Shadow” is the perfect example of how Scchottland layers her voice to provide infinite depth under a comforting canopy of beautiful instrumentation. This is an example of what each song accomplishes. Somnia makes me want summer nights to come on strong and let this album serenade me like the stars in the sky.

Somnia is exactly what we need to break free of the harsh tension and stress consumed within society. Schottland elaborates, “Given all the stress and tension in the world, I wanted to make a feeling of escape – something hypnotic and transportive.”

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