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Electronic/dark-synthpop duo Miracle (aka Steve Moore & Daniel O’Sullivan) have released another track from “The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon”, their third full-length album and first new release in over eight years.
Featuring guest vocals from English musician Rose Keeler-Schaffeler (KEEL HER), “Fluid Window” channels a sleek, nocturnal form of synthpop that balances gothic atmosphere with emotional intimacy as the voices of O’Sullivan and Keeler-Schaffeler intertwine. With shades of vintage Depeche Mode in its shadowy melodicism, the track transforms themes of digital connection and alienation into something hypnotic, seductive, and deeply human.
“Fluid Window grew out of thinking about how much of our emotional and sensory lives now pass through screens and devices,” explains O’Sullivan. “I was drawn to images of windows, reflections, portals, light and concealment, the desire to be constantly connected while also removed from lived experience. There’s something seductive about it; the sense that technology can both heighten and flatten our capacity to feel.”
Accompanying the single is a 1980s anime-inspired video (watch below). Featuring animations by Syahrindra W that mirrors the song’s themes of longing, technology, and emotional dislocation through cyber-romantic imagery…
“The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon” arrives June 26 via Relapse Records and finds Miracle at their most distilled and uncompromising.
Miracle once again unites two artists with rich musical histories across electronic, experimental, and progressive music: Steve Moore, one half of progressive synth-rock duo Zombi and composer of acclaimed contemporary horror soundtracks including “The Guest” and “Mayhem”; alongside vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Daniel O’Sullivan, known for his work with experimental/avant-garde acts Ulver, Grumbling Fur, Æthenor, Sunn O))), Guapo, Mothlite, and This Is Not This Heat.
Mixed by Moore and mastered by James Plotkin (Pelican, Sunn O))), Isis), the album unfolds as a ten-part song cycle exploring illusion and embodiment, ecstasy and annihilation, devotion and domination, the ancient and the algorithmic. The “electric daemon” functions as both inner familiar and externalized intelligence: the soul within the machine, and the machine within the soul. Rather than asking whether technology is becoming sentient, the record poses a more unsettling question… are we becoming its living likeness?
“The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon” tracklisting:
1. Ambrosia
2. Consolamentum Day
3. Fluid Window
4. PVC Vest
5. Eternalize
6. The Charnel Pit
7. Time is the Fire
8. The Eye
9. The Cross
10. Cities of the Interior
“The Living Likeness of My Electric Daemon” is out June 26 via Relapse Records. Pre-order on Relapse.com.
