With fans ranging from Bon Iver to The War On Drugs, critically acclaimed Amason member – multiple Swedish Grammy winner and festival headliner, farmer, record label boss & singer-songwriter Amanda Bergman – known for her grand voice – is back with her first solo album in over 8 years titled “Your Hand Forever Checking On My Fever“
Amanda Bergman’s second album release has become a constant companion on my turntable. It’s a soothing, soul-stirring, endless lullaby; a spellbinding set of sweet serenades that envelop the ears while warming the heart and nourishing the soul. Calm yet cathartic, charming yet charged, “Your Hands Forever Checking on My Fever” is a breathtakingly beautiful triumph of the human spirit. It’s at once tender and dramatic – an infectiously catchy, all-consuming collection of radiant reveries, intimate inner reckonings, and vulnerable reflections on life and death, purpose and place – what it means to live, and what it means to live well.
Amanda Bergman has described music as “the answer to life,” and this album certainly feels like the full-bodied realization of that philosophical statement. From the smoky, scintillating seduction of album opener “Wild Geese, Wild Love” and the heartrending romantic ache of “I Love Him Til I Love Him Right,” to the exhilarating propulsion of “Day 2000 Awake,” the cinematic, ethereal exhale of “My Hands in the Water,” the gentle, tranquil ebb and flow of “The World Is Tired of You” and beyond, Bergman unpacks life itself – the world around us, as well as her very own existence – through songs filled with light, love, and an intimate, undeniable sense of awe.
Like a waking dream or a fantasy fulfilled, “Your Hands Forever Checking on My Fever” feels otherworldly, yet comforting. It’s the musical blanket we didn’t know we needed.
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