There’s a moment in life when the mind stops wrestling with permanence and lets the truth settle in the ribs: everything shifts, everyone vanishes, every bright pulse we love softens into echo. To make peace with that is its own quiet rite…some days it comes tenderly, like a soft tide against the ankle; other days it lands with the blunt report of a door shutting behind you. Yet in this uneasy accord with passing time, a strange, steady beauty takes shape, reminding us that meaning hides within the fleeting.
Redder Moon’s No One Lives Forever, off the album If You’re Falling, Dive, steps directly into that territory, letting mortality sit beside melody without sermon or spectacle. The bittersweet song from this Kansas City act moves with a slow-burning thrum—a melancholic strain of gothic new wave built on bass that thuds like a distant pulse, guitar sustain hanging in the air like fog, percussion that shivers and sighs, and synths that ripple like a mournful wind. The voice at the center carries a hush edged with warning: close, steady, sure of the storm it names. You can hear faint constellations of mid-80s reverie flickering through the arrangement: Tears For Fears, Howard Jones, Talk Talk, even the soft-glow ache of Mr. Mister. Threaded between those influences is a subtle Ultravox-like shimmer—an undercurrent of romantic tension and melodic steel that lifts the track into something more haunted, more stately. These echoes guide the song toward a kind of hymn for the beyond, channeling awareness of impermanence into motion rather than stillness.
The video, shot in black and white, deepens the sense of time-bending at the margins. We see the artist walk through manicured gardens and past a Victorian manor, and the columns of tomblike stonework, each step passing through a world that feels both present and vaguely lost. The camera drifts through archways and corridors of hedges, keeping a gentle distance, as if the lens itself is remembering rather than witnessing. Light spills softly across the frame, turning each location into a whispered recollection—an image already sliding away even as we look at it.
Watch the video for “No One Lives Forever” below:
Together, the song and its visual companion create a meditation on impermanence that doesn’t collapse into gloom. Instead, Redder Moon invite us to listen closely to the quiet hum of our hours, to the small measure of fire still carried inside the body, to the strange solace found in understanding that nothing—and no one—is permanent in the mortal world, and that this truth, approached with grace, can turn into strength.
Listen to No One Lives Forever below and order If You’re Falling, Dive here.
If You’re Falling, Dive by Redder Moon Since forming in 2019, Redder Moon has stood shoulder to shoulder with Vision Video, Urban Heat, and Rosegarden Funeral Party.
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