The Pleasant Dread of Korda Korder’s “You Still Turn Me Inside Out.”

There’s a specific kind of pleasant dread in the opening moments of Korda Korder’s new single, “You Still Turn Me Inside Out,” like standing at the entrance of a cathedral you know is haunted by something benevolent. The East Sussex outfit calls this a gothic lament, and they aren’t wrong, but it’s a lamentation born from awe, not sorrow. Guitars fall like silver rain through a haze of synths that feel both celestial and deeply subterranean. It is an architecture of sound.

The track documents that peculiar, totalizing state of a connection so profound your own emotional geography gets redrawn. That lyric, “it’s like outside inside,” feels unnervingly accurate. For a moment, it brought to mind those old celestial navigation charts, the planispheres, where the vast, incomprehensible cosmos is flattened onto a piece of paper you can hold in your hands. This song does the reverse; it takes an internal feeling and explodes it into a swirling, private universe where time is a suggestion and sleep is unnecessary.

The Pleasant Dread of Korda Korder's "You Still Turn Me Inside Out."
The Pleasant Dread of Korda Korder’s “You Still Turn Me Inside Out.”

This isn’t the turbulent churn of new love; it’s the quiet, world-altering gravity of a long-established one. The escalating chant of “higher and higher” is less a frantic cry and more a statement of fact, a slow, spiritual levitation. The song doesn’t so much tell a story as it holds a single, complex feeling up to the light, turning it over and over until every facet gleams with a strange, beautiful light.

What Korda Korder has crafted here is a confession masquerading as a dream. It’s an admission that another person can become the very mechanism through which you perceive reality. So what happens, I wonder, on the day after? What do you do with all that leftover sky?

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