SINGLE REVIEW: GLIMTVIS - HIBERNATE

Checking on one of the star acts of this years Buckle & Boots, our Danish friends Glimtvis, the first act to play full sets on both Main and Paddock stage in the same year and just in time to capture their new single "Hibernate". Anyone who caught their sets would have been impressed with the sheer joy with which they played and any one that checked out "The Nashville Confessions" would have also been well impressed with their recorded output and this single is no exception.

A subtle opening of soothing vocals over a fiddle, guitar, and percussion leads us immediately into a quite intimate situation. We find a couple not necessarily with their correct partners enjoying a moments peace and solitude. It's a touching if slightly doomed portrait as time is always ticking....

Rikke takes the opening two lines on her own, the ones full of hope, with Rasmus joining in for the second more grounded in reality half.

"Hope this night will never end

That morning never comes again

When I wake I know I have to let you go

Hide my heart away and just don’t let it show"

The chorus bursts into life with a big drum intro, and stirring guitar. It possibly looses some of the intimacy of those heartfelt lyrics, but the tale of the doomed lovers is robust enough to stand up to it

"Sleeping wrapped in your arms

Can I hibernate with you?

Feeling safe but knowing

Though you’re right here, you’re not mine

Wanna stay but baby

I can’t hibernate with you

Hard to breathe without you

But feeling safe ain't feeling fine"

The second verse once more captures the intimate moments where they can stay hidden away from the real world together

"Pull me close when dreams get real

What my head knows not to feel

But to stay forever–a crazy wish come true

In this world made up for only me and you"

The final realism hits home in the bridge as morning comes.

"Ah ah ah–When the sun hits the window frame

I feel you slipping away

Ahah ah– the spell is broken, but we’re still the same

And you won’t stay"

The final chorus is split in two - the first half, with the band sound pared back is once more quiet and intimate, built around an acoustic guitar before the second half ramps up the volume once more.

Ending with the same vocals "Oooh's" that brought us in, adds a nice symmetry to proceedings.

Glimtvis - not just for Buckle & Boots!!!