09/06/2026
Hyggelig anmeldelse av ProgAtom’s singel.
På engelsk:
"In Every Heartbeat" begins as a confidence on the piano before taking over the whole room: ProgAtom makes love a symphonic force, unpredictable and impossible to maintain at low volume. ”
At first, almost nothing. A few piano notes, a breath, the impression that the piece still hesitates to reveal what it feels. ProgAtom's "In Every Heartbeat" is born in this fragility, that of emotions that we approach with caution because they could already be larger than we imagine.
Written by keyboardist Arild Sveum, the title tells the natural growth of love, its warmth, its transformations and this ability it has to gradually change the perception of the world. However, ProgAtom does not approach it as a ballad frozen in sweetness. The Norwegian group prefers to follow its real movement: first intimate, then more and more intense, until the feeling overflows its first form.
The musical construction thus becomes the narrative itself. The piano opens a close, almost domestic space, where each chord still seems to belong to only two people. Tore Christer Storlid's voice enters this restraint without forcing the drama, letting the words find their weight before the rest of the group begins to move the horizon. Then Mattis Sørum's guitars win in presence, Åsmund Mjelva's bass thickens the ground and Rune Ulen's drums give the song a new impetus. Confidence becomes landscape.
This transition from ballad to symphonic rock works because it does not look like a simple contrast exercise. ProgAtom does not stick a spectacular explosion on a delicate introduction: the group makes each step of enlargement felt. The arrangements are gaining height, the atmospheric textures let in more tension and Arild Sveum's keyboards gradually cease to be the only refuge of the piece to become one of the engines of its magnitude.
Progressive rock finds a particularly fair use here. It does not serve to exhibit technical complexity, but to translate the variations of a loving state. Love never advances along a perfectly regular line. It can be peaceful and then suddenly dizzying, reassuring then confusing, bright without losing its shar på e of danger. "In Every Heartbeat" espouses this instability by its changes in dynamics and its dramatic dimension.
However, the production retains a real melodic readability. ProgAtom, active since 2012, has this taste for ambitious architectures that remain accessible at the first contact. The symphonic and atmospheric references enrich the piece without suffocating its pop heart. The chorus is not just an instrumental summit: it gives the feeling a shareable, almost collective form, as if what began in intimacy could now be taken up by an entire room.
The title extends a trajectory already drawn on the albums "Sagittarius A" and "Spiral", then on singles such as "Under the Olive Trees" and "I Can Smell the Hay". ProgAtom continues this search for a melodic rock capable of combining emotional depth, soundscapes and narrative ambition. "In Every Heartbeat" also announces "Iconic Pictures", a future album of which he suggests a more cinematic writing.
What touches most remains the way the group refuses to reduce love to a simple euphoria. Its warmth is present, but it coexists with unpredictability and intensity. Loving also means accepting that something is beyond our control, that the relationship forces us to evolve and that no version of oneself remains perfectly intact after letting the other in.
ProgAtom thus signs a progressive, wide and sincerely romantic piece, where music not only accompanies the subject: it makes it grow before our eyes. The piano first whispers what symphonic rock ends up declaring to heaven.
Some feelings begin in silence. It only takes a few beats for them to become impossible to hide.
« « In Every Heartbeat » commence comme une confidence au piano avant de prendre toute la pièce : ProgAtom y fait de l’amour une force symphonique, imprévisible et impossible à maintenir à faible volume. » Au départ, presque rien. Quelques notes de piano, une respiration, l’impression q...
