If the lyrics to “Haunted” can be taken even remotely at face value, Isadora Eden has transmuted a great deal of pain and anguish into a beautifully resigned melancholy. The nuance and detail in the guitar work and the impressionistic bass lines elevate the dark mood of the song in which Eden sings about a lingering emotional pain at the hands of another person. The kind of hurt that might come from the kind of emotional abuse you can bury to make it through your days but which spring up unbidden at times with an intensity that can be challenging to set aside when it happens at odd and inconvenient times. Eden speaks to that resurgent rawness of feeling and how it can leave you feeling disoriented when you haven’t had a chance to properly process the trauma of it all. And of the frustration of not being past it and blaming oneself for not having worked your way through the experiences that haunt your emotional state already. Yet in writing these lyrics in this way Eden makes it okay to not be okay and to be willing to be patient with something like the human mind and how it’s not just some technological process that has a set time or parameters or easy fixes. Is the song dream pop? Sure if Chelsea Wolfe wrote dream pop. It Has that richness of mood and attention to detail in songcraft and production that sets it apart from any easy genre categorization which is a sign of the strength of the songwriting to be found elsewhere on Eden’s forthcoming full length Forget What Makes It Glow which drops in July with a release show on July 15, 2023 at The Marquis Theater with Pink Lady Monster and Rose Variety. Listen to “Haunted” on Spotify and follow Isadora Eden at the links below.
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