Loreen pulls back from intensity on her new release Coming Close. This isn’t built on a big drop or payoff. It’s her voice that leads it.
The track starts almost bare, just a thin synth sitting underneath. When she comes in, every small shift in her delivery comes through. The arrangement stays thin enough to keep that noticeable.
When the pulse arrives, it moves with her. The mix never overshadows the vocal; they push forward together, and the euphoria builds out of that. The track leads you there, but not all at once.
The line “I feel you coming close” repeats until it stops behaving like a hook. It circles without resolving. The song isn’t building toward the thing, it’s staying inside it.
Written alongside Andrew Jackson (Halsey, Dua Lipa, Avicii), Joe Housley and Charlie Martin, it follows the darker dancefloor intensity of Wildfire, the album’s title track, and sits in deliberate contrast to it.
Loreen says: “Even in a world that can feel distorted, there is something true rising underneath it all. For me, Coming Close is about learning to see beyond that distortion, and realising that everything around us is alive, connected, and rooted in love. It’s a collective awakening, something subtle but powerful and you can feel it getting closer and closer.”
It enacts the waiting, the part before whatever is coming actually arrives.
By the time it cuts, everything it built has nowhere to go.
Loreen’s new album WILDFIRE is out now.
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