“Far Off Summer's Night” - MAHUNA
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Mahuna doesn’t so much write songs as he exhumes memories and lets them flicker into melody. His new single “Far-Off Summer’s Night” is a perfect example: an intimate, ghostly lament lifted from his debut album Forever Is Mine—a record already praised for its lyrical tenderness and sonic weight. But here, stripped down to twilight and shadow, Mahuna reaches for something even more fragile.
The song circles around a single, devastating image: “Just a shadow it would seem / Walking with you to the stream.” It’s addressed to Mahuna’s late father, but it plays like a universal ache—that liminal moment when someone gone still feels half-present, half-possible. Recorded live to preserve the immediacy, “Far-Off Summer’s Night” doesn’t lean on studio polish. Instead, it’s all breath, hushed guitar, and lines that hang in the air like mist.
What’s striking is how he lets repetition do the heavy lifting. “The hour is late / The fireside waits” comes back again and again, like a lullaby or a mantra, but also like the way grief itself loops in our minds—unresolved, unfinished. The effect is haunting without being heavy-handed. This isn’t an overwrought ballad; it’s a quiet walk through memory, guided by someone who knows the power of restraint.
Mahuna has been praised for making his debut feel like a sonic memoir—anchored in places and moments: Paris dawns, Belfast childhoods, Monaghan fields. “Far-Off Summer’s Night” feels like a chapter from that same book, except the pages are translucent, fading as you read. There’s a sense you’re overhearing something personal, but the intimacy never feels exclusionary. If anything, it pulls you closer, makes you hold your breath in case the memory breaks.
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There’s a ghost-song quality here that recalls Nick Drake, or the hushed, folky edge of early Bon Iver. But Mahuna’s voice—both literally and lyrically—is his own. It’s Irish in its cadences, in the way it grounds the mystical in something earthy. The night sky isn’t just backdrop; it’s the only light left. The stream isn’t metaphor; it’s the place where absence and presence brush against each other for a moment.
By the time the song dissolves, you’re left with that dreamlike aftertaste—the sense that you’ve been somewhere fleeting, and that you’ll carry the echo all day. Which is exactly how Mahuna describes writing it: a dream he didn’t want to lose.
“Far-Off Summer’s Night” is one of those songs you don’t play once. You let it loop, you let it keep you company. It doesn’t tell you how to grieve, or how to heal. It just sits with you in the dark until the stars start to feel like enough light to keep going.
“Far Off Summer's Night” is available now on all major streaming platforms
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