Melbourne duo My Lovely Haunting descend further into their shadow-soaked world with โLost Again,โ the final single from their debut album Forgotten Moon. Out now, the track continues the projectโs self-crafted genre, Bladerunner Folk fuses spectral folk melodies, cinematic ambience, and the eerie emotional pull of a sci-fi fever dream. Built on the bones of an improvised first recording, reverb-drenched vocals bleed through a humming guitar amp, organ-like keys floating like ghosts in a ruined cathedral, with the finished version carrying that raw first breath of pain. The duoโs driving philosophy is embedded in the trackโs DNA, with suffering being a shared human pulse, memory as a trapdoor, and sound as a form of self-medication.
The song sinks in slowly. It opens with hazy, vaporous textures, with a drifting fog of synth-tinged atmosphere, before the vocals emerge, thick, deep, and weighted with an exhausted gravity. The refrain โLook into my eyes / Surrounded by the wolves againโ lands like a looped memory, returning again and again to the moments you thought you had outrun. The production is drenched in space, echo, and that signature analogue melancholy, moves like a prayer reverberating through an empty city.
As the track unfolds, it doesnโt chase catharsis so much as circle the ache. The drums never crash in triumph; instead, the arrangement keeps dissolving and reforming like a dream you canโt hold onto. Toward the end, Lucyโs soothing, ambient, soft, spectral, and mesmerizing vocal glides in, creating a quiet duet between despair and solace.
By the final refrain of โIโm lost again,โ the song has become a hypnotic, unsettling, intimate, and painfully recognizable spiral. With โLost Again,โ My Lovely Haunting delivers their most immersive descent yet, like wandering familiar ruins you hoped never to revisit.
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Review by: Naomi Joan