Faker lets transformation bloom into something unsettling on “Nightmare's Coming Back”

 

Faker’s “Nightmare’s Coming Back” is an interesting take on emotional change, using surreal, horror-like plant life to speak of a very personal change. The song seems to let strange images carry the emotional weight, creating a sense of growth and decay being strangely connected, rather than explaining every feeling directly. “Nightmare's Coming Back” is more interested in chronicling the disorientation that ensues when someone becomes unrecognizable than it is in dispensing easy answers. Faker plays that uncertainty, making it haunting and giving the song a psychologically vivid and intriguingly dark feel.