A big, sweeping bliss of dazzling post-punk is typically what Makthaverskan do without flaw, and it would probably still be just as effect if they kept on that course in perpetuity. “Louis”, the second single from the Gothenburg band’s new album, Glass and Bones, doesn’t indicate that they’re content with staying in that same place, however, as their wheel gets reinvented in an atypical pop redesign of that likeness. Decelerated in momentum, and instead, for the subtlety of chiming keys juxtaposed with shuttering percussions, concentrating their energy into its center doesn’t necessarily mean that Maja Milner can be held to it. “I’m scared to live a life / Not knowing how to breathe out / The air thick as clouds,” she sings. “Hold it in / Don’t let it out.” If this is what Makthaverskan sound like when they’ve allowed themselves to become compressed, it only reveals more sparkle within.

Makthaverskan’s Glass and Bones will be released April 3rd on Welfare Sounds.