New Music: &Tilly – In Circles

Prague is home to some wonderful art and buildings from all eras, as well as being the abode of one half of Czech/German duo &Tilly. Baroque, gothic, and modern live side by side in this city, which is surely an inspiration for the atmospheric dark dreampop of In Circles.

The song is an ethereal waltz through time and sound. Vocalist Tilly brings a haunting yet vibrant presence to bear on arrangement that has nods to the mystic tones of Enya or classic Enigma, but fused with a brooding cinematic ambience that wouldn’t be out of place on a Sopor Aeternus ode to the passing of youth and love.

Reveals Tilly about In Circles, ”I loved the song from the start. And the start was actually happening in a circle of three, me, Vii, and Yan. One evening, we played, and the words, partly written already, came out absolutely naturally into the piano melody. And the whole was imperfect but already ethereal in its imperfection… and then the song slept. For more than a year, the song just slept in the drawer until I rediscovered it, and we finished it because it felt like it had to be finished.”

“And I was told it is a bit longer and not really appealing to an average person, so it probably won’t be received that well. But I love it anyway, and I hope you will too. Sad and true and poetically tangled, In Circles is about the circle of life and that that circle is not that awesome and shiny and with a happy ending, it always ends the same – with an end. It’s still worth walking that circular road, I think.”

In Circles is available to download on Bandcamp. The track and more music from &Tilly can be heard on Apple Music, Deezer, and YouTube Music. For further streaming options and to be among the first to know about new music from &Tilly, be sure to follow them on Instagram or Facebook.