The keen reader will remember Swedish project Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends from a number of previous articles published on our blog. We last wrote about him in June this year, celebrating ‘The Hag’ as “a nugget of new-wave-inspired flair”, in some sense quite different from the project’s usual catalogue. Today, Alien Friend returns with a new version of ‘Love Will Prevail’, a track originally released in 2021.
From a sonic standpoint, ‘Love Will Prevail (No. 2)’ follows in the footsteps of its original version, although it’s clear that the Swedish troubadour does improve the mix and the overall flow, even changing sections and rewriting some of the arrangements. It all appears to work, with the new record feeling more solid and grounded, the perfect match for Alien Friend’s charming, melodic vocals. What ultimately matters is that the track is more consistent with the vision behind the entire project.
Delving deeper into the meaningful ethos that propels the record, Alien Friend explains: “The lyrics partly came to me in a nightmare. I dreamt my late brother – dead for many years – called me on the phone, confessing he’d killed an ‘important person’, before he himself got sick and died. The rest of the story came to me in fragments and snapshots (memories, news on the telly, images of war) rather than in a chronological fashion.”
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