โThe Crowโ finds Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends circling back to the dusky Americana feel they explored on No Sweets for E, while hinting at the more folky, experimental paths promised for their upcoming 2026 album. The Stockholm project has long juggled power pop, folk, and indie rock with a wry, poetic streak, but here they lean into something darker and more cinematic. They bring a slow-burning character study where loneliness stalks the edges like, well, a crow picking at the remains.
The track builds from a hush, as strings swell in dramatic, almost film-score arcs while the percussion adds a steady, rustling momentum, like boots on gravel approaching a reckoning. You can taste the bolero in the rhythm, in its slow, insistent pulse that tightens the mood. The lead vocal comes in, measured and introspective, delivered reflectively and somberly. He sings of a time when โyouโ didnโt know him, of sadness and distance, sketching images that feel stark and wintry.
Behind him, the backing vocals croon and echo his lines, sometimes wailing in the distance, sometimes wrapping around the melody.. At emotional peaks, strings flare and an English horn colours the arrangement, adding a dramatic, almost Old World ache that nudges the song beyond standard Americana into something more theatrical and European. Subtle organ and careful production choices keep everything glued together, lifting the tension without clutter.
Lyrically, the vision of a crow eating from the dead pushes past romantic melancholia into something harsher and more existential. By the time โThe Crowโ lands, it feels like a slow, deliberate descent into a landscape of isolation that somehow, in its honesty, becomes oddly comforting. Find the shoulder of โThe Crowโ by Arn-Identified Flying Objects and Alien Friends on Spotify, to feel like you are not alone in this feeling.
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Review by: Naomi Joan