Everything, the new offering by shoegaze up and comers, Lozenge, finds the band taking their most confident step forward yet. Expanding beyond the serrated edges of their earlier material, the title track from the band’s forthcoming four-song EP leans harder into melody without sacrificing the weight that made them so compelling in the first place. Guitars swell and expand, giving the song a sense of purposeful forward motion while granting enough space for the tension to properly unfold.
The track stares directly into the void of modern existence. Collinson wrestles with the suffocating grip of capitalism and the way currency dictates every corner of daily life, framing it all against imagery of cosmic collapse and inevitable ruin. The band orbit that dread with increasing intensity before finally crossing the point of no return into something all-consuming.
"Everything is about realising how totally money is ingrained into every facet of society, and how powerless that can make you feel sometimes. I wrote this at time when I was cosmically overwhelmed by the world and felt like I could see my life flashing before me."
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