Bruno Santos finds beauty in the endless return of ‘{ Persistent } Loop’

At the emotional centre of Bruno Santos’ ‘Reverse <|> Symmetry’ sits ‘{ Persistent } Loop’, a track that quietly explains the album as a whole. If the record is a hall of mirrors, this song is the moment you stop walking and realise you’re staring directly at yourself.

‘{ Persistent } Loop’ unfolds like a thought you’ve had too many times to count. It circles, pulling you back into the same emotional gravity over and over again. There’s something deeply hypnotic about the way the song moves, in that slow, almost meditative drift that happens when your mind is stuck replaying a memory you never resolved. You can hear it in the way the guitars rise and fall, in how the rhythm seems to breathe instead of march forward, and especially in the voice, which sounds like it’s speaking from inside the echo of its own past.

What makes the track so powerful is its restraint. Santos allows the unease to linger. The layered vocal treatments feel like different versions of the same self trying to process the same wound. That multi-voiced effect gives the song a strange three-dimensional quality, as if the emotion is being viewed from several points in time at once.

Within the wider world of ‘Reverse <|> Symmetry’, ‘{ Persistent } Loop’ acts as a kind of emotional anchor. While the album moves through shifting languages, moods, and mirrored structures, this song keeps pulling everything back to the same question: how do we live with the parts of ourselves that never quite let go?

It’s rare to hear a track that feels this psychologically honest without becoming melodramatic. Bruno Santos manages to capture the ache of going nowhere while still making it sound beautiful.