Desire, in its wildest form, is both compass and chaos. It anchors with the weight of want, a gravitational pull toward something (or someone) utterly consuming. Yet in the same breath, it casts us adrift in confusion, doubt, and delirium. It is the sweet vertigo of recognition tangled with the terror of losing yourself. One moment offers clarity like lightning; the next, everything blurs. To desire deeply is to live on a fault line, where certainty trembles and identity dissolves. It is a sublime instability, a beautiful bewilderment, where longing becomes both lighthouse and storm.
Hamburg’s Joy Forever wax philosophical on this precious, precocious state with Two Minds Collide, a humid collision of synth haze and emotional static, channeling the fragile fever of deep attachment through gauzy guitar trails and vocals that hover.
Less a love song than a séance for shared obsession, Two Minds Collide captures that wild seesaw of desire and disorientation; the kind that anchors and unmoors in the same moment. Think the spectral stomp of Skying-era Horrors, the oceanic ache of Slowdive, or the overcast romanticism of DIIV, but filtered through a lens cracked just enough to let in the weird. It’s a track steeped in contradictions: close yet cavernous, tender yet trembling, straddling the tightrope between comfort and collapse. It is heavy on the pathos and the reverb.
The video, directed by Philipp Hartinger, doubles down on the surreal: vintage cars drifting through half-familiar streets, masked figures strut and stutter through dream logic, and symbols linger like wisps of Marlboro smoke. A stylish riddle, perfect for a band edging toward their strangest self yet.
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Listen to Two Minds Collide below. You can order the single here.
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