Something is intoxicating in a song that bends time, space, and sound into a swirling dreamscape. The new track of Loving Backwards, "Nothing But Air," lifted from their debut album, "Rubbish Twilights," is a mesmerizing five-minute path between an-out-out illusion and disillusionment.
The project led by Or Izekson, whose diversity of influences runs deep and extreme props for creating an example with the sound bordering between vintage psychedelic rock and their own fresh, filling a musical infinity, such an experience is both familiar yet a strange mystical new sonic world. "Nothing But Air" is no different. Its hazy, layered guitars, hypnotic rhythms, and ethereal vocals thrum into a space between perception and what is real or what is something else entirely.
The song wraps around you from its opening note, lifting you through a swell of reverb-drenched chords and a soulful and distant groove. The instrumentation is lush but never overbearing, giving the song's central intent, the disparity between how we perceive the world and how it is. The result is a meditation in sound that stays with you long.
Loving Backwards doesn't simply wiggle sounds out of the air as they shape whole environments. "Nothing But Air" has a cinematic quality, making it easy to see it soundtracking a late-night drive, a dream sequence, or a funky state between waking up and falling asleep. It's a song that begs to float, get lost, and consent to its gravity-defying pull.
With "Rubbish Twilights," Loving Backwards shows they're more than just another group kicking about in the well-trod psych-rock. They're sonic illusionists, composing sound scrapes that pry open and hold the mind. "Nothing But Air" is a dizzying invitation into their world, in which reality is subjective and music is the sole constant.
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Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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March 06, 2025
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