Across the Never, by Krister Linder

Across the Never

by Krister Linder

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Alice M. While reviewing Katatonia’s upcoming album, I noticed that half of the vocals on one of my favorite older songs of theirs, “Departer”, were from a guest. That album is from this guest, and it gives off the same kinds of vibes as that song, basically. Soothing but not naive. Favorite track: Other Skies.

noctopolice Finally! After too many years Krister Linder is back and this album has definitely been worth the waiting. As spacious as ever but with great songwriting and real emotional impact. Standouts: Other Skies, Gone and Cowboys & Snowdens. And Awake, of course! Truly a great and often stunningly beautiful album. Favorite track: Other Skies.

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1.	Awake & Dissolve 03:37	lyrics
ARISE IN THE OPEN AWAKEN AND DISSOLVE RE:ALIGN WITH THE LIGHTNING AT LAST EMPIRES FALL STAND LIKE A MOUNTAIN AND CHOOSE YOUR STAR OUR WORLD COMING UNDONE BUT NO MATTER HOW FAR WE ARE INSEPARABLE WE ARE INSEPARABLE AWAKENED AND SHAKEN AND DRAGGED OUT OF OUR DEN TO RESTORE WHAT IS BROKEN AND RADIATE AGAIN TIL THE STARS HAVE TURNED TO BLACKENED HOLES SWALLOWING ALL TIME WHOLE WE ARE INSEPARABLE WE ARE INSEPARABLE
2.	Other Skies 05:25	lyrics
INTO YOUR LABYRINTH SPIDER SCANNING ME CAMERA FOLLOW US SPYING DRONES FLY ANONYMOUS STYLE I COME FROM OTHER SKIES ACROSS THE NEVER I FEEL ANOTHER SKY BREATHING ELSEWHERE I GO TO OTHER SKIES BUT I’LL BREAK THE CHAIN OR EVERYTHING IS LOST AND I’LL MAKE IT HOME AT ANY COST INTO YOUR LABYRINTH LUCID CITY DREAMS COMPUTER WATCHING ME I’M ON RADAR MONITOR I COME FROM OTHER SKIES BEYOND THE NEVER I FEEL ANOTHER SKY PULLING ELSEWHERE I GO TO OTHER SKIES I’M READY
3.	Night Eye 04:59	lyrics
FROM CLOSE AND EXACT ATTENTION I HAVE ARRIVED AT CONCLUSIONS CURRENTLY DOING MY HEAD IN ALL INDICATING WE’RE DREAMING AND WHEN GRAVITY FAILS US WE’RE BREATHING SLOW RISING ABOVE FROM DOWN BELOW LEAVING ALL UNDERNEATH US YOUR HAND IN MINE INTO THE NIGHT EYE TWILIGHT TURN INTO DAWN CRUISING CHASING HORIZONS WE MADE IT AND WHEN GRAVITY FAILS US WE’RE BREATHING SLOW RISING ABOVE FROM DOWN BELOW LEAVING ALL BENEATH US YOUR HAND IN MINE INTO THE NIGHT EYE AND WHEN GRAVITY CLAIMS US STILL BREATHING SLOW SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO GO BELOW BUT UNTIL I FLATLINE YOUR HAND IN MINE INTO THE NIGHT EYE
4.	You Were Always 04:44	lyrics
STEEL CLOUDS MAY VERY WELL OBSCURE THE HEAVENS THEY’RE STILL JUST A TINY CRUST HIDING FOREVERS WHATEVER REMEMBER YOU WERE ALWAYS PERFECTLY DIVINE TO AVOID THE UNFORESEEN WE STALL WE’RE STALLING BUT IN TRUTH WE’RE ONLY STEPS AWAY WE LIE, WE HIDE THEN FALL TO FLY YOU WERE ALWAYS PERFECTLY DIVINE YOU WERE ALWAYS HERE
5.	Gone 06:22	lyrics
WHEN WE’RE GONE THE SUN REMAINS THE SAME WHEN WE’RE GONE THE EARTH ROTATES THE SAME YOU’RE A FIREFLY APPROACHING LIGHT OF DAY YOU’RE A SUPERSTAR BURNING TO FADE AWAY UNCERTAIN ROADS AHEAD BUT STILL THERE’S NO RETURN NO SOLACE IN THE PAST A LIFETIME TO UNLEARN IF ALL I SOUGHT WAS DREAMS JUST COVERING MY TRACKS OBVIOUSLY OBLIVIOUS THROUGH HEAVENLY HELLS AND BACK I FACE THE GREAT UNKNOWN AS STRANGE AS IT MAY SEEM THE CITY SPOKE TO ME OF CAPITOLS OF DREAMS AND LABYRINTHs OF GLASS IN GRIDS OF MILLION MIRRORS ENTIRE UNIVERSES WITHIN US IN YOUR FIRE I PURIFY MY SOUL KEEP ME CLOSE AND NEVER LET ME GO I FACE THE GREAT UNKNOWN SURRENDER TO THE FATE BESTOWED UPON MY SOUL LIKE SHACKLES OF GOLD AND EVERY WHERE I TURN THE WORLD ANTICIPATES WHEN I’M GONE
6.	The Great Surrender 07:54	lyrics
SOURCE OF ALL I AM AND ALL THAT IS I TURN TO YOU AND KNOW THAT YOU HEAR ME AS I COME FROM YOU AND YOU DWELL IN ME TOO EVERY BREATH AND BEAT I GOT FROM YOU I’M YOU MANIFEST THROUGH AND THROUGH SO HEAR ME NOW I’M READY TO SURRENDER SOMEHOW LUCIFER CALLING THE MOTHER AND SON I’M TIRED OF BEING ANGRY AND TOO WEARY TO RUN MADLY IRONIC THAT ONLY YOUR LOVE WAS GIVING ME SPACE TO CHOOSE TO REBEL AT ALL FORGIVE ME CENTURIES I’VE REHEARSED WHAT TO SAY BUT THINGS COOL DOWN ALONG THE WAY OH THE LENGTH WE GO JUST TO KEEP A GRUDGE THOUGH IT POISONS OUR SOUL THERE WERE TIMES I THOUGHT I WAS WINNING WHEN I HAD THEM ALL SPINNING SPIRALING DOWN OH SO SIMPLE THOUGH LUCIFER CALLING THE FATHER AND SON I’M TIRED OF BEING ANGRY AND I LONG TO COME HOME CRAZY IRONIC THAT ONLY YOUR LOVE WAS GIVING ME SPACE TO CHOOSE TO REBEL AT ALL SAY HOW YOU WANT IT YOU’RE ALL THAT I GOT KNOWING I’M FREE TO SUFFER OR NOT FORGIVE ME
7.	Pure Like Fire 05:53	lyrics
YOU SHAKE MY LIFE ENTIRELY YOU TURN MY HIDING INSIDE OUT LIGHT UP THE DARK FROM WITHIN ME AND MAKE YOUR BED INSIDE MY HEART WHAT IF I SIMPLIFY ALL AND EVERYTHING AND BEGIN FROM TONIGHT AND FOREVER PURE LIKE FIRE YOU COME IN WAVES AND TREMBLINGS IN WATERFALLS AND VOLCANOES I COME TO PEACE WITH EVERYTHING BY GRACE OF YOUR UNFOLDING ROSE WHAT IF WE SIMPLY LEAVE ALL AND EVERYTHING AND BEGIN FROM TONIGHT AND FOREVER PURE LIKE FIRE I BEGIN FROM TONIGHT AND FOREVER PURE PURE LIKE FIRE CLEAR LIKE STARS AND PURE LIKE FIRE
8.	Alchemy 04:41	lyrics
THE BEAUTY OF WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN IS LONG GONE FOR THE HESITANT IF I LOVE LIKE FIRE BURNS AND I FALL LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES EVEN CRY LIKE WATER FALLS WILL I RISE LIKE VAPOR THE BEAUTY BEYOND ME I SURRENDER I’M READY IF I LOVE LIKE FIRE BURNS AND I FALL LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES EVEN CRY LIKE WATER FALLS I WILL RISE LIKE VAPOR AND BEYOND THE VEIL MAYBE YOU WOULD RECOGNIZE ME IF I LOVE LIKE FIRE BURNS AND I FALL LIKE AUTUMN LEAVES EVEN CRY LIKE WATER FALLS I WILL RISE LIKE VAPOR MAYBE YOU WOULD RECOGNIZE ME
9.	Cowboys & Snowdens 05:23	lyrics
WHOSE GLASS CATHEDRAL WHOSE KEY TO KINGDOMS WHO TO BE OWNED OR ONES OWN WHO be safe WHO BE DRONED and gone WHOSE FUTURE FREEDOM WHOSE FUTURE UNDONE WHO RAISE HIS HEAD WHEN THEY BOW WHO’S THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN BRING ME A MORNING BREATHE ME YOUR FEARLESS GOLD FLOOD THE HORIZON LET THE DAY UNFOLD RELEASE YOUR PRISONERS ONCE FOR ALL whose secret magnet whose prison planet who speak in reptile tongue who’s a slave who’s a bloodline strong BRING ME A MORNING BREATHE ME YOUR DEATHLESS GOLD FLOOD THE HORIZON LET THE DAY UNFOLD RELEASE YOUR PRISONERS ONCE FOR ALL
10.	Isle of I 02:42
11.	Never Said Alien 03:46	lyrics
NO MORE LIGHTS ON THE ROAD STAY AGLOW YOU KNOW DON’T EVER LET THE COLD GET A HOLD OF YOUR SOUL YOU KNOW THE CAT IS OUT BUT THE WORLD IS OURS WE NEVER SAID ALIEN STAY AWAKE MY LOVE YOU ARE NOT ALONE YOU KNOW THE CAT IS OUT BUT THE WORLD IS OURS WE NEVER SAID ALIEN ALIEN
12.	Vine of Souls 01:30
13.	Conquer 06:45	lyrics
I FOUND YOU SNOW WAS IN THE AIR YOU REMIND ME OF STORM LIKE LIONS IN THE AIR OF ALL WONDERS INSIDE ALL THE GOLD IS LOVE WITHIN A TINY ROSE A DIAMOND RING A MONSOON AND A FIRE CAN MY HEART DENY THIS LOVE WITHIN THE KIND OF LOVE WE CONQUER IN A MONSOON WE FADE OUT HOME IS SAFE AN ISLE IN THE I SOON THE LIONS WILL SING AT SUNDOWN TO BREAKOUT TAKES A TInY LITTLE LAMB LIKE A RIOT CONSUMING DEVOURING ALL WE’VE BEEN THE KIND OF LOVE WE CONJURE IN A MONSOON I’M A FIRE SUN MOUNTAIN HERE I AM LOVE WITHIN SUMMER LIGHTS WILL TURN AROUND A MONSOON (LOVE CONQUERS ANYTHING)
14.	Across the Never 04:54	lyrics
THE TINIEST ATOM IN SUPER SUNS ORIGINAL PRIMORDIAL THE TINIEST ATOM INSIDE OUR HEARTS IDENTICAL CELESTIAL FROM BEFORE WE’RE BORN WE WERE SWORN TO THE SOURCE AND THE UNDIVIDED TO EXTEND THE TRUTH AND DESCEND INTO FORM BRINGING LOVE INTO IT REFLECTED AND MUTATED QUANTUMFOLD WE’RE DWELLING IN OUR TENDER SKIN THE LIGHT OF THE UNIFIED IN OUR EYES WILL TESTIFY IN DEAD OF NIGHT WITH MY FINAL CALL I MAKE A STAND TAKE THE VOW AS IF ON A MOUNTAIN TO RENOUNCE IT ALL HANDING OVER MY SELF TO YOUR HOLY FOUNTAIN

about

In 2009 I sold my Stockholm apartment to be able to cross the Atlantic and subject myself to a whole new existence - in a land and city where I had no past merits or advantage whatsoever. Inspired, clueless and armed only with the foolish trust of a poet I rented an apartment overlooking Lower East Side Manhattan / New York. I was consumed and driven by an absurd dream: To let go of everything, begin from nothing, fully give in to the mystery and sometime return home with an album. And today I'm excited and grateful to be able to share ACROSS THE NEVER with all of You. Now, my music may not be for everyone, but this is something I have come to fully accept and embrace over the years. And so my wish is not to convince or convert anyone into a fan or buyer. But I do pray that the spirit of my songs get to travel far and wide to reach each and every single being that could possibly appreciate it. I want it to be heard by anyone that would get some soothing or solace from it, wherever they may be, within or beyond our world. So if you think you know of someone who might enjoy and connect with my music, please don't hesitate to share it with them. Let it travel among your beloveds, flow to your people and go wherever it's meant to be.

Thank You so much for your patience and loving support over the years. With endless Love
K

credits

released February 9, 2019

Ghostfriend presents 'Across the Never' - written, produced & recorded by Krister Linder on 178 Norfolk St. #16 - L.E.S. Manhattan / New York. Mixed together with Eric Hart at Glaus Haus Studio / Los Angeles & mastered by Christofer Stannow at Cosmos Mastering / Stockholm.

'Across the Never' is released as digital download and audiovisual mashup by Razor on February 9, and as Master's Cut Double Vinyl & Deluxe Edition CD on April 12.

All Rights Reserved / Ghostfriend 2019

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