With ‘Today Is For Forgetting,’ A.S. Fanning opens a window into a dim, expansive inner life: the second single from the upcoming album Take Me Back To Nowhere balances between inner dissolution and cosmic clarity. The track starts off almost buoyantly, a deceptive lightness that quickly turns into a flood of words; Fanning’s deep baritone guides us through layers of alienation, collective dissonance and a metaphysical limbo. Instrumentally, the band weaves introspective folk with psychedelic reverberation and post-wave expanses — hypnotic rhythms, floating guitars and organs overlap in dense, luminous layers, creating a sound architecture that leaves room for the breathless image of ‘an explosion of instants’. Lyrically, Fanning operates at the intersection of Le Guin and Ballard aesthetics: reality and imagination interpenetrate, time disintegrates into splintered moments, and the central consciousness struggles to simulate normality. Produced with Robbie Moore and recorded with the live band in southern Sweden, the single feels like a mind-expanding opening credits — not enlightening, but inviting. ‘Today Is For Forgetting’ functions as a hypnotic invitation to let yourself drift: a dense, cinematic prelude that continues the literary weight of Mushroom Cloud and gives it a more open, experimental depth.

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