Memorable shoegaze atmospherics shine on “Fix, the debut single from Atlanta-based band Aphantasia. Emotive vocals intensify amidst layered guitars, swelling from understated dreaminess into a raucously inviting dose of distortion. The “won’t you fix me?” pleading in the chorus resonates alongside the sludgy distortion beauty and whirring sense of illumination. Per the band, their stellar debut “captures the feeling of being trapped in your own skin,” — traversing themes of “self-loathing, stagnation, and the weight of mental health struggles.”
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
The track is also featured in the genre-based, best-of Spotify compilation Emerging Dream-Pop.
