Opening with a falsetto vocal layered over ambient sounds, Morning Light starts with a lonely, introspective atmosphere. Textural flourishes create a sound that surrounds you – drums kick, and a pair of guitars unravel, with one pitched towards each channel. And then Lüne drops into the break — a chunky mash of drums and thick, organic feeling bass.
The overall feeling I get from Morning Light is one of picking through debris and flora, whether in moving through the world, on a hike through the wilderness, or through the heart. There is a beautiful clash at the core of the song, between emotive vocals and rich instrumentation, and more brutalist production techniques.
That tension is perhaps deliberate. An attempt to capture the friction that exists within the human experience, between hope and despair, loneliness and comfort. Describing the song, Lüne said:
“I wrote this track when I was feeling lost and down. The world around me was all grey. This track is an appeal, a journey trough finding the lost colors.”
That sense of colour, and the search for hope and beauty, comes through strongly on Morning Light. Check it out below.