In “Borrowed Time,” the new single from Bomethius, singer-songwriter Jonathan Hodges teams up with his sister, Caroline, for a haunting dive into the nightmares of internal monologue. The siblings’ voices drift and blend atop a dreamy meld of delicate guitars, eerie synths, and a keening trumpet that together conjure the dread of a faraway siren
In “Borrowed Time,” the new single from Bomethius, singer-songwriter Jonathan Hodges teams up with his sister, Caroline, for a haunting dive into the nightmares of internal monologue. The siblings’ voices drift and blend atop a dreamy meld of delicate guitars, eerie synths, and a keening trumpet that together conjure the dread of a faraway siren drawing closer. Prodded along by the lumbering plucks of an upright, the verses audit the barbed insults, doubts, and accusations that sink their teeth into the mind over years of pernicious relationships and self-loathing. Like an elegy for wounded souls, the duet closes with the spectral strains of Caroline’s scatting refrain — “you’re fine” — and is a promising sign of the things to come from Bomethius in the new year.