Some Spirit, the latest venture spearheaded by Jonny Diina, brings us a song of defiance and personal resilience, of finding focus and ambition, via his latest single, “Make It Anyway.” A stirring single which beautifully balances the electronic sublimity of darkwave with the heavier guitar energies of gothic rock proper, intense yet accessible.
The track unfolds as if a sonic representation of the imagined cover artwork — shafts of sunlight gradually finding their way through the canopy of a dark forest, just as the deft fragments of music dance and merge while battling through their dark and ever-present backdrop. There is beauty here, certainly, but it is beauty tempered by melancholy and atmosphere.
From the somber elegance of the opening notes, which evoke Frédéric Chopin’s piano nocturnes, the song slowly evolves, adding skittering electronic beats and drifting keyboard washes, to its. at first, sparse, creative canvas territory, and finally becoming soaked in shimmering, cinematic guitar lines, each layer the natural next step, each tone and texture adding to this brilliant blend of light and shade.
What makes “Make It Anyway” so compelling is its balance: its attractive opposites – fragility and force, stillness and movement, grace and grandeur. Some Spirit understands that atmosphere is not simply decoration but emotional and sonic architecture, and here they construct something genuinely beguiling.
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