Norwegian virtuoso Filip Dahl has returned with his latest offering — “If You Saw Me Now” — which is a masterclass in how to send music to wrestle with the hardest struggles of life. The seasoned artist lays his soul bare in the most raw, most guitar driven rock ballad imaginable, talking about his personal battles with mental health right from the beginning chord. From the first chord you are immediately carried into the deeply melancholic but beautiful atmosphere. Dahl’s exquisite fretwork shines, his playing an ebb and flow of emotion through his trademark evocative tones and sublime phrasing.
It is only by being linguistically brave that Dahl’s brave lyrics in ‘If You Saw Me Now’ get across the all consuming despair, anxiety and fear that drives those wracked with inner turmoil. The lines hit like a spiritual awakening, lines that ring strongly of his personal therapeutic process of writing the song. The veteran musician has an earnest desire to impart that, to continue on to the end of the darkness and let the pale light of hope through, and it’s clear you can feel that every time Dahl alchemizes such heavy material into an experience that is paradoxically uplifting.
With the soul stirring track, we are taken on a real literal cathartic journey from the lowest of the lowest depths to the faint flicker of inner strength inside each of us.For a long time fan, ‘If You Saw Me Now’ is a courageous creative rebirth of the legend. There’s a new depth of profound emotional heft, but Dahl’s signature melodic prog rock and blues tinged brilliance remains. The sheer raw power, musical mastery and creative peak is going to floor newbies alike from an artist nearing the end of a storied career, in bearing his soul so vulnerably, Filip Dahl has made a true artistic triumph: a musical memoir of personal battles finally overcome, of the most agonizing, he can transform into a beautifully transcendent thing through the guise of art. ” If You Saw Me Now ” is a life affirming key statement.
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