Mormor – Heaven’s Only Wishful

Mormor - Heaven's Only Wishful

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Mormor - Heaven's Only Wishful

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The first few bars of “Heaven’s Only Wishful”, the new single from the Canadian singer/producer MorMor, are relatively run-of-the-mill: crisp, chiming guitars and mid-tempo drums that cruise along, chilled-out and melancholy.

But when an ear-splitting shriek interrupts the groove and cuts to a breath of silence, it rings like a warning: Stay on your toes. “I'm just a poor boy, waiting for answers,” MorMor sings, assuming command. “No one heard you coming.”

The artist, whose real name is Seth Nyquist, first emerged in 2015 in the same Toronto pop scene as BADBADNOTGOOD and Charlotte Day Wilson and is now readying a debut project. “Heaven’s Only Wishful” is the first taste: Laced with clever left-turns, it’s a moody rumination on the afterlife that never quite goes as expected.

What begins as brooding indie rock blossoms into new wave synth-pop. Most surprising are the subtle echoes between human and digital sounds: When the time comes to cue another scream, a gooey, high-pitched synth playfully takes its place. And as an electric guitar revs up the energy in the final verse, MorMor ratchets up his voice to match it, hardening his velvety croon into something strained, scratchy, and distorted.

That it all works so seamlessly is a testament to his auteurist vision; MorMor wrote, recorded, and produced the song, as well as directed the companion music video (made in collaboration with Max Chandler, Pia Perez, and Sylvain Chaussee) that is similarly loaded with artful imagery: cherry blossoms, railroad tracks, MorMor on an overpass with his arms stretched out like Jesus.

The closing shot zeroes in on him sitting on a chair, singing louder and louder until he’s practically shrieking. Just like that, we’re back where we started.


Artist

Seth Nyquist (born 1992), better known as MorMor, is a Canadian indie pop singer and songwriter.

Life

Seth Nyquist was born in Toronto, where he grew up with his adoptive mother, English professor Mary Nyquist, and his sister. He was in a foster home initially and then got adopted by a Swedish family. "Mormor" is a reference to his grandmother, with ”mormor” meaning grandmother in Swedish.

Nyquist sang in the school choir and played trumpet in a band. After he finished school, Nyquist started to study sociology at Toronto's Ryerson University. He dropped out after one semester and decided to focus on his musical career instead. He took piano and vocal training.

In 2015, he released his debut EP Live for Nothing under the moniker MorMor, which was the name he used to call his late grandmother. In 2018, MorMor released the EP Heaven's Only Wishful through his own label Don't Guess.

He received, in 2019, a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for the song "Whatever Comes to Mind".

Mormor - Heaven's Only Wishful

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Lyrics

I'm just a poor boy
Waiting for answers
No one heard you coming
I watched the ashes blow away

Spent some days with runaways
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
You could kiss the lips of fate
The less we know the less it drains us

Close your eyes and see it through
Chaos comes and collects the youth

I can feel the cold air when the night comes
Heaven's only wishful
I can feel the cold air when the night comes
Heaven's only wishful

Someone said
Each night I wonder
Hoping to find meaning
To the nights getting longer
With luck I can break this feeling

Life and its horrors
Oh, there's no getting out
Don't tempt these vultures
Oh, who are circling round and round
Don't be the reason

Close your eyes and see it through
Chaos comes and collects the youth

I can feel the cold air when the night comes
Heaven's only wishful
I can feel the cold air when the night comes
Heaven's only wishful

Someone said
(Yeah, whatever)

Some say
You're the reason I, I
Feel this way
Some say
You're the reason you're the reason
You're the reason
Some say
You're the reason I, I
...

Testo

Sono solo un povero ragazzo
Aspettando risposte
Nessuno ti ha sentito arrivare
Ho visto le ceneri soffiare via

Ho passato alcuni giorni con i fuggitivi
Con le luci spente, è meno pericoloso
Potresti baciare le labbra del destino
Meno sappiamo e meno ci prosciuga

Chiudi gli occhi e guarda attraverso
Il caos arriva e raccoglie i giovani

Posso sentire l'aria fredda quando arriva la notte
L'unico desiderio del cielo
Posso sentire l'aria fredda quando arriva la notte
L'unico desiderio del cielo

Qualcuno ha detto
Ogni notte mi chiedo
Sperando di trovare un significato
Per le notti che si allungano
Con un po 'di fortuna posso rompere questa sensazione

La vita e i suoi orrori
Oh, non c'è modo di uscirne
Non tentare questi avvoltoi
Oh, che girano in tondo
Non essere la ragione

Chiudi gli occhi e guarda attraverso
Il caos arriva e raccoglie i giovani

Posso sentire l'aria fredda quando arriva la notte
L'unico desiderio del cielo
Posso sentire l'aria fredda quando arriva la notte
L'unico desiderio del cielo

Qualcuno ha detto
(Sì come ti pare)

Alcuni dicono
Sei la ragione per cui io, io
Sentiti in questo modo
Alcuni dicono
Sei la ragione sei la ragione
Tu sei la ragione
Alcuni dicono
Sei la ragione per cui io, io
...




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