I’m in a bad place,
days are passing me by
I thought I didn’t deserve this
I’m scared I’m running out of time
Six Impossible Things, the brainchild of Nicky Fodritto and Lorenzo Di Girolamo, balances its songs on a fragile thread between recollection and immediacy. Their new single, Nevermore, finds that thread stretched taut, quivering with a sorrow that is quiet but unyielding. The words speak plainly: passing days, suffocating regret, fading dreams that haunt, apologies that fail, and winters so cold they turn the house itself into a lock. And then that soft resignation: “sleep is the only solace I can find.”
The song’s form carries the opposite weather, the warm hush of a Sunday morning. Gentle guitars brush against one another, a rhythm sways like breath. The drums do not press but rather guide, steady as the tick of passing hours. The voice is subdued, fragile, resigned…more a presence than a performance. What you hear is lament wrapped in velvet, despair delivered through restraint.
Its origins date back to a period of forced solitude. “We were in the middle of the pandemic and I spent months alone in my bedroom reading books and listening to music,” says Di Girolamo. “I was still living in my parents’ house at the time and I had a lot of free time because, obviously, we weren’t allowed to work. I came up with a bunch of ideas in that period and Nevermore was the one that has been stuck in my head all this time. So we decided to start working on it in the summer of 2024 and now it is finally out in the world. I think the best way to describe the mood of this song is: dream pop for those currently having some very dark dreams.”
That phrase lingers. Dream pop is often imagined as a music of bright haze, yet here the dream is troubled, the bed unslept in, the body restless. The band’s melancholy is sharpened, not dissolved, by melody. You’ll find kindred spirits in Cocteau Twins, the Jesus and Mary Chain, The Veldt and Slowdive, but with a melancholic twist.
The video, directed by Helio Gomes, is a sunlit collage of the band performing together. It is a striking counterpoint to the song’s heavy air: friendship in motion, camaraderie gathered under open skies. It gives an impression of lives interwoven, even as the lyrics dwell on solitude.
Watch the video for “Nevermore” below:
Six Impossible Things have traveled steadily since their first EP, I Tried to Run Away from Here (2019). Each release has refined their sound while deepening their sense of atmosphere. With Nevermore, they draw from years of silence, pages read in closed rooms, and winter months that pressed inward. The result is a song that feels both hushed and immense, a record of despair transmuted into fragile beauty.
Their music tells us: despair is real, silence is heavy, yet melody can carry it…if only for the length of a song.
Listen to Nevermore below and order the single here.
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