The Almost Kind

There’s a certain kind of grief to almost being enough. It rarely shows on the outside, but it builds early, like a slow tectonic shift quietly raising a mountain range between you and the rest of the world.

The Almost Kind, the fourth single from Loving Embers’ upcoming album, is about that. About being shaped by the things never said out loud, yet still absorbed. Small gestures. Unspoken tension. Being present, but never fully belonging.

“I was only allowed to be myself / when no one was around”

It doesn’t live in the memories, but in what they accidentally set in motion.

“They said I was like my mother / when I did something wrong”

Here, the band moves away from their familiar indie palette. The Almost Kind leans into fractured textures, a disoriented landscape held together by the momentum of a quietly insistent bassline.

The full album, Slow Burn, was recorded in a single week at Bagarstudion in northern Sweden, with Frithiof Stenvall as producer. The studio has wooden walls, a sleeping loft, a fireplace, and a sound to match: dry, warm, unforced.

The track was mastered by Michelle Amkoff with precision and care. The artwork is by Albin Eidhagen.

Loving Embers formed in Piteå, Sweden, in 2017. After an early EP and touring both locally and abroad, the band faded into silence during the pandemic. The Almost Kind marks their first step back. Or not back. Onward.

Out February 6.

(BD Pop/DigiNorth)