Trauma Glowโs latest single, โmillion in one,โ created in collaboration with Vienna-based artist Sakura Katsuura Chow, is a daring step for the Austrian alternative outfit. Since their 2023 debut, the band has carved a niche across Europe with their shoegaze-rooted sound, constantly twisting it with eclectic influences. Here, they take that hazy foundation and lace it with acoustic textures, pop immediacy, and even a hint of country. Recorded in Vienna and mixed in Chicago by Zac Montez, the single sits at the crossroads of memory and modernity, as an intimate meditation wrapped in a post-digital haze.
From the opening bars, โmillion in oneโ engulfs the listener in shimmering fuzz and hard-hitting drums, as it steps into a dream where every sound lingers just out of reach. The gentle, blurred vocals float through the haze. This softened delivery gives the lyrics power as if theyโre whispered confessions caught between walls of noise.
He opens the song with the line, โI write another day and the years fly by,โ which recognizes the way time is slipping, persisting in the helpless march forward. Meanwhile, the repeated mantra of โBig house, I wanna live in a big houseโ carries a dual edge. Itโs both aspirational and unsettling, reflecting the tension between yearning for stability and being swallowed by material, dreamy illusions. And when the lyric shifts to โFor now, I wrote you another romance, and itโs in Times New Roman,โ it grounds the dream in mundane detail, suggesting that lifeโs grand hopes are often typed out in the same flat font as daily routine, conveying how unrealistic these wishes are.
This single is at once nostalgic and forward-facing, intimate and vast. With โmillion in one,โ Trauma Glow brings to you a fragment of messy and luminous consciousness.
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Review by: Naomi Joan