The question at the center of “Omission (Now and Then)” doesn’t get answered: “Are your dreams all made up when you’re chained?” By the final stretch, it’s not even a question anymore. “All your dreams are made / When you’re chained” repeats until it calcifies into something closer to resignation than revelation. The song documents what it feels like to stop fighting.
The shoegaze production suits that refusal. Layered and slightly submerged, it creates the sonic equivalent of the glass-wall feeling the lyrics keep circling: present enough to feel, distant enough to doubt. The alt-pop instincts keep it from disappearing entirely into the atmosphere, grounding the more abstracted emotional content in melody that stays with you.
The lyric sits with blame without assigning it cleanly. “Looking for someone to blame / It might be long to explain.” That’s an honest accounting of a paralysis most songs paper over with resolution. The bridge, returning twice to “I remember the first time / On my way to tell you how I feel,” suggests the omission of the title: something never said, still unsaid, the absence the whole song keeps circling back toward.
Ten years between a first EP and a second. “Omission” sounds like someone who knows how time disappears.
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