Fern: Can be both dark and light, both distant and intimate, and both soothing and punishing.

Fern can be both dark and light, both distant and intimate, and both soothing and punishing. Fern premiere video for brooding new single Intersubjective. The Ocean drummer Paul Seidel released Fern’s debut album Intersubjective in September

Intersubjective is taken from Fern’s upcoming debut album which will be released through Pelagic Records on September 30.

Seidel says, «We all seem to crawl through our personal realities, constantly distracted by impulses and our own conscious. Yet all we are is just small fractions of a collective mindset, an evolving and expanding organism that seeks to determine and substantiate every information that crosses our path. We are intersubjective beings, illusions of a reality that makes sense of itself».

Away from The Ocean’s blend of prog metal and post-rock, Fern mix the atmospherics of progressive music with the eclectic approach of artists like Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode and Björk. The track Hyperreal,

«These songs are an invitation to explore human identity in this rapidly digitised world we live in. ‘It’s necessary sometimes to be still and gain experience of yourself in order to make more meaningful experiences of, and with others. Like in meditation, it’s a process of letting go off constant thought and impression in order to learn about your inner workings».

Intersubjective was written, performed, and co-produced by Seidel and produced and mixed by Jan Kerscher at Ghost City Recordings.

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