A euphoric sprawling ensemble of lovely acoustic melodies alongside enchanting pitter-pattering subtle touches make the opening of ‘Lover’s City’ as radiantly perfect as you could imagine. The song just evokes feelings of togetherness, eternal love, and an undying bond that’s cut off far too soon. It’s able to bring out the pain and anguish at seeing that fall apart. That hauntingly beautiful repetition of the central line, ‘Don’t let me fade away’ only grows in anthemic resonance in your mind as it itself starts to find itself drowned out by the overarching arrangement comprised of intricate and swelling string work accompanied with blistering guitar melodies.
There’s buckets of emotion behind this project, immediately evident by just how profusely expressive the song is in its melodic sensibilities and the sheer power of that central chorus line. But it’s also so meticulously pieced together that you find yourself in sheer awe at the grandiosity of the entire arrangement, an experience that necessitates a proper speaker to really marvel at.