It’s been four years since we reviewed Merpire‘s last official release, the album ‘Simulation Ride’, and the Naarm/Melbourne-based award-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer and songwriter (the nom-de-plume of Rhiannon Atkinson-Howatt) is back with a new single ‘Premonition’. Merpire’s yearning style and velvet soft vocals remains to the fore in this silky smooth track, filled with a languorous dreamy atmosphere ripe for release on Valentine’s Day. The song is built on an aquatic synth riff with a driving insistent beat and chiming guitars, expressing a charming romantic melancholy: There’s a pull in my skinTo show you where you’ve not beenIt’s all I think about Merpire says of the track: I was reading my first…