A Review of FATECRIMES – ‘Summer Thunder’

There’s something immediate about ‘Summer Thunder’ – a sense that the moment the first guitar note lands, you’re already inside the weather system FATECRIMES have conjured: Written by Anna when she was just 15, the song carries both the urgency of youth and the weight of reflection, its lyrics personifying the elements to capture resilience, hope, and the inevitability of change.

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Anna’s guitar work feels sunlit and expansive, the chords ringing out with an almost cinematic openness. Her vocals float above them – not detached, but gliding with intent – shifting from gentle warmth to sudden surges of intensity. Kieran’s drumming isn’t just a rhythmic backbone; it’s a second voice in the arrangement, echoing like thunder, rolling in and out of the foreground. His dynamic range is a crucial part of the track’s emotional arc, tightening in moments of tension, loosening when the skies clear.

The production allows the rawness of performance to remain intact – you can feel the human hands on strings, the air in the room around the drum kit. There’s no attempt to smooth out the song’s organic edges; instead, it leans into them, letting small imperfections feed the track’s sense of life.

What makes ‘Summer Thunder’ stand out is its refusal to be boxed into a genre. There’s indie-rock grit here, certainly, but also a soulful undercurrent that draws the ear to the lyrics. The way melody and rhythm push against each other gives the track an unsettled energy – fitting for a song about weathering storms.

At its core, ‘Summer Thunder’ is about motion – the kind that moves the body and the mind. FATECRIMES have bottled something elemental here: the light before rain, the charge in the air, and the quiet certainty that the sun will return.