Tor Lundvall Beautiful Illusions Vinyl LP Clear Blue Colour 2022

1. Their Souls
2. Forever Rain
3. Drowning
4. Blessings Counted
5. Love Song
6. Four Bluebirds
7. Lonely Boy
8. Two Windows

New York painter and musician Tor Lundvall initially envisioned his 14th album as an entirely instrumental affair, 'inspired by memories of sitting in a church or cathedral watching the shifting sunlight through stained glass'. Although he ultimately chose to wreath the majority of the tracks with hushed, poetic vocals, his original muse still resonates. These are certainly songs of shadowplay and vaulted skies, the quiet grandeur of dusk deepening on the horizon. Lundvall characterizes the lyrical subject matter, too, in ways both specific and surreal, exploring 'the doubts, the anxieties and even the bleak fantasies the mind spirals into during moments of isolation, separation and distance'.