Loaver plays with strange magic on creeping new single “Apart”

If Loaver’s voice rings a bell, you’ll find the answer to that mystery in Linnea Hall’s membership in art rock band Kluster B. As a solo artist, she brings us her new track “Apart” - a sprawling spook-synth adventure.

It's a song that lives several different lives in its four and a half minute span. Built around an interpolation from an Italian opera, it starts off with a haunted-house creep, and things twist and swell and get weirder as it goes along.

Hall stands over the song and leads you through the gloom, skilfully holding things together on her most adventurous song yet. “‘Apart’ was originally written for the Opera Festival in Brescia, Italy, in 2018,” says Hall. “The song plays with an excerpt from Arrigo Boito’s Mephistopheles, why 'he' in the end alludes to the rapture or, if one so wishes, the evil in us. Otherwise, the song is mostly a bundle of questions or reflections of the loneliness we share”.