New EP out now!
Available on all major platforms.
Biography
Flicker and Fall was created by Per Lindblom (guitars, basses, keyboards) and Johan Wallén (keyboards) who have played together in various bands since childhood and played together with Hux Nettermalm (drums) in the nineties band EGG (or ÄGG). Johan, Hux and Petronella Nettermalm (vocals and cello) are former bandmates in the art rock band Paatos.
Flicker and Fall plays a blend of art pop, folk, jazz, progressive rock and kraut rock.
Personnel
The music of Flicker and Fall is composed and produced by Per Lindblom and Johan Wallén.
Personnel on "The Lost EP"
Per Lindblom: Acoustic and electric guitars, electric bass, double bass, piano, Hammond M3, Rhodes electric piano, Mellotron M400, reed organ, synthesizers, melodica, cornet, glockenspiel, backing vocals
Johan Wallén: Piano, Mellotron M400, Hammond M3, synthesizers, backing vocals
Petronella Nettermalm: Lead and backing vocals, cello
Hux Nettermalm: Drums
Mixed by Per Lindblom and Johan Wallén. Mastered by Per Lindblom. Stockholm 2023
Lyrics
LOST
(Lindblom)
There is still
some time to kill,
to find anyone.
So find anybody out there
and be gone.
I saved your life
like you saved mine.
But I’m like everyone.
I’m not here to say it’s over, but it is.
And you try to lose yourself
in the moment.
But it’s hard to lose yourself and still
survive as one you think upon
when the day is done
and you’re sleeping calmly
on your pillow.
I hold on to the smallest things,
the random offerings.
Though I know it doesn’t really matter.
The sun is bright
and I’m alive.
I’m not here to cry.
I’m not here to say I’m sorry,
though I am.
And you try to lose yourself
in the moment.
But it’s hard to lose yourself and still
survive as one you think upon
when the day is done
and you’re sleeping calmly
on your pillow.
CIRCLES
(Lindblom)
I believe in circles,
both viscous and virtuous.
They begin, start to spin now.
It seems it always comes in clusters.
The good and bad alike
attracts more of its own kind.
I pledge my allegiance
to cause and consequence.
All you do comes back
at you somehow.
And one lie always leads to another.
One to cover up the first.
Continue till the bubble bursts.
All that you do will come back to you.
You can make the motion change.
You can make the circle end,
or set it off to spin again.
I believe in circles,
both viscous and virtuous.
They begin or stop spinning now.
NAILS
(Lindblom)
I am not broken.
I am not gone.
I’m not the one you trampled upon.
I linger.
I remain.
But I am not the same.
Like water I’m always
changing my shape.
A crack in the wall,
I make my escape.
I linger.
I remain.
But I am not the same.
It’s a new day in an old world.
A new page has been turned.
But there’re still scars in the places
where we drove in the nails.
The words that were spoken
were sharp at both ends.
We drove them into each other,
like nails in a fence.
There they linger.
They remain.
And we can’t fully mend.
It’s a new day in an old world.
A new page has been turned.
But there’re still scars in the places
where we drove in the nails.
LOST AGAIN
(Lindblom)
If I was lost
and you were not
with me anymore,
I would try to find somebody
just like you...
