Amanda Bergman has shared beautiful new song ‘Poor Symmetry’.

The songwriter’s incoming album ‘Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever’ is out on June 7th, composed over a number of months, and even years, in some instances.

Take her song ‘Poor Symmetry’. Out now, it’s a fine preview of the project as a whole – at times minimalist, at others fulsome, the arrangement swings around her gossamer vocal.

A hypnotic offering, ‘Poor Symmetry’ was sculpted on a remote Swedish island, before being left on the back-burner. Songs have a habit of locating the correct space in your life, however, with Amanda returning to ‘Poor Symmetry’ and bringing it to fruition.

She comments…

Written on the Swedish Island Gotland, we recorded a demo of it as were about to catch the ferry. After that I forgot about it for a long time. We tried to re-record it and we did some other versions, but we ended up using this demo despite its imperfections.

The song itself is written in a time period where a lot of my closer friends were going through big separations. It’s fascinating how we in our westernised culture spend such an enormous amount of energy connecting to one single partner, most often trying to master the impossible art of trying to meet another person’s full pallet of needs and wishes whilst still trying to be completely self-preservative and true to oneself. Almost always a person becomes a complete stranger to their former partner. Some more than others have a skill/weakness to move on very quickly and sometimes that looks quite terrible from the outside – it’s like cheating in a game. And you can’t decide whether it’s something very life-affirming or simply moral decay.

Tune in now.