Eternal Embers

by Meltt

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EclecticMusicLover My gosh, "Eternal Embers" is one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard! Literally every track is superb, and it most definitely ranks among the best albums of 2023. Favorite track: Within You, Within Me.

Christopher Smolen Even better as a body of work than "Swim Slowly". There are some incredible pieces of music on this album. Best enjoyed on a good quality stereo system with a subwoofer. Favorite track: The Absent Sea.

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1.	Into the Blue 03:31	lyrics	buy track
Time’s on the hunt Out by my shore More years we have lost to the closing jaws All of our fears We’ll all go through One breath I’ll dive into the blue Into the blue Don’t follow me Cause I can’t see At all My soul it won’t Fall into sleep Wandering through all of these ancient needs All of our fears We must go through One breath I’ll dive into the blue Into the blue Don’t follow me Cause I can’t see At all One life To make count Seas rise I might not make it out My fears I’ll soon see Cause one day The ocean will swallow me Don’t follow me No More
2.	Only in Your Eyes 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Floating down This river of time In currents that we’re bound I’ve come to find That only in your eyes Sunlight The current’s strong Our presence won’t last for long For now Somehow Moments move right through you Your light The night Could not hope to hide you Only in your eyes Only in your eyes For now Driftin’ out To the oceans’ embrace Well did I make it count? The moments we chased But only in your eyes Horizons alight The sun goes low As I cling to the fading glow For now Somehow Moments move right through you Your light The night Could not hope to hide you Only in your eyes Sun begins to rise For now For now Sun
3.	Within You, Within Me 03:18	lyrics	buy track
If you think you know yourself Well you don’t You don’t You’re too afraid to lose control To let go And just float All of these dreams Within you Within me Somehow I feel Part of you Is part of me If you try to find yourself On your own Well you won’t But if you learn to love yourself When you’re low Well maybe there’s hope All of these dreams Within you Within me Somehow I feel Part of you Is part of me Deep underwater Your emotions Call to you Go where the wind blows All of this time spent hesitating Down by the water Across the ocean I should go Go where the tides pull All of our lives to rearrange them With you I feel I find myself I let go And we float All of these dreams Within you Within me Somehow I feel Part of you Is part of me
4.	Do You Ever Wonder? 03:51	lyrics	buy track
It’s okay to do as you feel Did you ever wonder how we came to be? It’s okay if others don’t see Do you ever wonder what we’re made to be? Soon our lives will go on by but Everyday’s a chance to find a better way Running through our own dreams Looking for some meaning But getting weak So much more I wanna know But wasting all my time I throw my years away Feel I’m moving slowly Need to set my mind free And live today Always on my mind It’s okay To wander, be free Did you ever wonder how we came to be? It’s okay if they don’t agree Do you ever wonder what we’re made to be? Soon our lives will go on by but Everyday’s a chance to find a better way (Running out of time) Running through our own dreams Looking for some meaning But getting weak (Running out of time) So much more I wanna know But wasting all my time I throw my years away (Running out of time) Feel I’m moving slowly Need to set my mind free And live today Running out of time Always on my mind
5.	The Absent Sea 05:06	lyrics	buy track
Wall of haze evolving Wake me up State of mind’s revolving Check my pulse Flow of entropy Let it bleed Sing my melody To the absent sea Now Silence You might attract your common sense So long Our woven paths sing endless songs Waking desolation Breathless plains Anguished isolation Feeding flames Feral energy What’s left of me Sing my melody To the empty sea Now Silence You might attract your common sense So long Our woven paths sing endless songs Always awake But never home All that I know Heads for oblivion Floating in sound Eternal drone All that we know Sings for oblivion Our meridian Is soaked in the blood Of a swollen sun Floating in sound Eternal drone All that we know Sings for oblivion
6.	It Could Grow Anywhere 03:23	lyrics	buy track
When I first logged in I couldn’t imagine You’d be the one I’d take out My heart raced up Hindsight Wasn’t focused All I could notice You were the one stand-out In my eye I don’t believe it With love there comes a feeling Something I can’t convey Unsure if we could transcend Love we had until the end Was my concern Didn’t want to offend You’re more than just a good friend Not sparked inside a cafe Love made from a display Was it for real? Something about it Didn’t feel valid It threw me into my own doubts My heart was sure ‘cause I had a feeling That love don’t need a reason It could grow anywhere In life Once you find it Go with the moment With time might eventually see I know that we can transcend Love we have until the end That’s what I’ve learned There’s no need to defend Nothing we need to mend Not sparked inside a friends place Love made from a display Seems meant to be
7.	(Hummingbird in the Garden) 01:47		buy track
8.	Blossoms 03:25	lyrics	buy track
Somehow Out in the forest now A feeling forever inside In-effable A glow Ancient senses exposed My view Is blooming now Flora and fauna won’t you open my mind? Uncover what’s been making me feel so blind I’ll try to hold Onto the Earth When all of these blossoms rise up from the dirt Over the ocean floor See vastness so endless Expand Something flowing through A truth Past reflections regrew My view Is floating up Flora and fauna won’t you open my mind? Uncover what’s been making me feel so blind I’ll try to hold Onto the Earth When all of these blossoms rise up from the dirt Flora and fauna won’t you open my eyes? Pull back the curtain on the world I can’t find ‘Cause I won’t go Into the dirt ‘Til all of these blossoms rise up from the Earth
9.	Your Melody 03:19	lyrics	buy track
Please explain Is my whole life in vain? If I can’t break What’s going wrong Odysseys Through these stormy seas Couldn’t shake me from this song Are we on the right path? Surrounded by a fire Time will get the last laugh And play with our desires And I can see your melody Walking down the line to find it winds In ways you can’t control through space and time I can see your melody Please refrain Wish I could cease your pain But it’s frozen Deep in your song Atrophy in ruthless degrees Was your future all along Right path? Surrounded by a fire Time will get the last laugh And play with our desires And I can see your melody Walking down the line to find it winds In ways you can’t control through space and time I can see your melody I see you in between light and sound Fought your destiny until you drowned I see you in this thread of conscious flow Thought you’d find relief but now I know
10.	Aphantasian Dreams 04:29		buy track
11.	The Fire 04:41		buy track
12.	Soak My Head 03:06	lyrics	buy track
Overhead Uneasiness I won’t address It feels to me My life is falling in my screen But the mind can mend Haziness and focus blend Know it’s here to stay I need something to break away Soak my head in ocean breeze Receive Psyche symmetry Sunk my head in open seas Relieve Cleanse how I perceive This won’t remain The balance is a fragile game Really can’t describe The reason that I’m so inclined I need some air Not see what they all have to share When I live this way Can’t help but feel I’ve gone astray Soak my head in ocean breeze Receive Psyche symmetry Sunk my head in open seas Relieve Cleanse how I perceive Dunk my head inside my dreams Refresh From all my bitterness Douse my mind so I can breathe Reflect What it means to be
13.	When the Smoke Abates 04:04		buy track
14.	Another Quiet Sunday (Keep Moving On) 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Some, someday We’ll meet Again For now I have to Keep moving on (Keep moving on) Time has come For me Again Still I have to Keep moving on (Keep moving on) And always comes the fall A wave to change it all And now’s my time to go To rejoin with them all Keep moving on Some, someday We’ll meet Again For now I have to Keep moving on (Keep moving on) (Keep moving on)

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Life cycles through birth, death, and rebirth. Flames reduce objects to dust only for the wind to sweep them into the ether in another eternal form altogether. Meltt’s music resembles this natural sequence. The hum of distorted guitars dissolves into bright melodies carried by shimmering synths and soaring vocals. The Vancouver based band—Chris Smith [lead vocals, guitar, bass, keys], Jamie Turner [drums, percussion], James Porter [guitar, keys, bass, vocals], and Ian Winkler [bass, keys, guitar]—enable rock, alternative, and psychedelia to coexist in one creative ecosystem held together by airtight instrumentation and deft songcraft. All of these elements blaze brightly on the group’s second full-length offering, Eternal Embers.

"Into The Blue" was inspired by the documentary Jago: A life Underwater, about Indonesian freedivers. There’s a scene where Jago is scared about diving to the sea floor for the first time, he does so and the pressure is so intense that his eardrums burst but after that he “unlocks” the sea floor and feels he can go anywhere. The imagery of the freediving and pressure of all the water and pulse synth of the intro feels like a heartbeat and as the song goes on going deeper and deeper until the bridge at the end is rushing to the surface.

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released September 22, 2023

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