Creeping in like a midnight fever dream Arizona singer KREGG strikes a surprisingly raw nerve on his single Away From Here as dark rhythmic verses give way to a towering wave of heavy melodic guitars. The song opens with an ominous acoustic bounce that almost feels like a nocturnal storytelling session and then slams into a massive wall of sound that catches you completely off guard. You can hear every bit of passion poured into the recording process and that contrast between shadowy folk poetry and exploded stadium energy makes the track instantly electrifying.
Those verse couplets roll past like surreal cinema stills where images of a wounded beauty dressed in white collide with bleak hospital halls and mechanical nightmares. KREGG delivers these lines with an eerie understated composure that brings to mind the dark narrative style of Paul Simon if he were backed by a heavy alternative rhythm section. The acoustic guitar keeps time like a ticking clock in a dark room and the bassline hums right beneath the surface to build a relentless tension that demands your full attention while setting up the explosive release of the chorus.
