Amanda Bergman – ’embraced for a second as we die’ album review: All in perfect harmonyAmanda Bergman - 'embraced for a second as we die' 4.5On embraced for a second as we die, Amanda Bergman delivers a devastatingly beautiful exploration of life right before death. The Skinny: Drifting through the haze of a warming, swirling faintness of an echo of a song you could have sworn you’d heard before comes the weather-worn, aching but beautiful voice of Amanda Bergman on the opener from her new album, embraced for a second as we die, ‘common, like the end’. Their brilliant debut album, Sky City, was awash in future/present/past soundscapes; caught somewhere between sounds and somewhere between times. On embraced for a second as we die, Bergman returns to and expands upon the best of Sky City, moving away from the more electronic elements from the older album and replacing them with a more timeless blend of earthy, acoustic tones on guitars and pianos and drums, bass and organ. In reality, this album is really a lot like that older one, only maybe more so.