The dream-alternative singer-songwriter Mikhail Daken ushered us into the shadows with the arresting single "Dissolution," his new track about falling in slow motion, enveloped in beauty and ruin. "Dissolution" is intimate and expansive, delicate and fierce. The acoustic textures plant you firmly on the ground while the electronic layers lift the song into a dreamscape that feels endless.
Embracing his otherworldly feel and neo-gothic-lined ambiance further around the edges on the EP, Daken skillfully marries smeared acoustic matches alongside roan electronic vapor to set the kind of mood that delights and haunts simultaneously. "Dissolution" is a note lingering like a whispered secret, and every lyric is as if written in the margins of a mysterious love letter.
It's an inward-looking alt-mood piece of a track, emotional but remarkably restrained. Daken does not only sing; he seduces, working you into a realm where giving in is inevitable and embraced. His voice hangs above the arrangement like a haze over a moonlit lake, fragile yet unstoppable, exacting the song's theme of gradual unspooling.
This is the soundtrack to a moment you never knew you needed. With "Dissolution," Mikhail Daken doesn't just push the boundaries of alternative music: He erases them, leaving us hanging somewhere between the quotidian and the fantastic. And honestly, it's a great place to be.
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