Today I have the honour to host the premiere of a new song. It’s the duo KALK who are releasing their debut single “Hold Tight” today. The duo consists of Julia Simonson and Freja Drakenberg, who in November subsequently will release their debut EP.
I immediately fell for this song. On the surface it’s a catchy pop track with an interesting and a bit different chorus. But there are more elements in the song that caught me: the sweeping synth pads that drift back and forth like a warm breeze in the song, and the lightness in a rather percussion-heavy track, but which still feels effortless. They write about the meaning of the song:
“Hold Tight deals with the dilemma of making a choice with either your heart or your brain, and how that dilemma can drive you crazy. Hold Tight is about making the easy choice before the right choice, ignoring about what’s really the best for you.”
(transl. from Swedish)
Before the summer Pica Pica released the wonderful single “Lift Me Up“. Now they have launched the follow-up “Where Did The Summer Go”, a duet where Jonas Jonsson (aka Bedroom Eyes) joins Ida Segersten on vocals. This time they have added some more energy in a track that, after a mood-setting start, explodes in shimmering synth arpeggios and a beat that almost pushes us out onto the disco floor. Here’s both a dose of drama and a nice, melancholic ambience containing a title phrase that lingers in the air after the song has finished.
I thought I’d finish this music Friday with a new video from the English band Everything Everything. It’s a music video to the fascinating and strong track “No Reptiles”, which is taken from the band’s latest album “Get to Heaven”.
Lars Henrik Andersson recently released the two-track single “Dansa tills jag stupar”. The title song is an intense pop track which runs in an unusual septuple meter, a beat that turns out surprisingly sticky just as the catchy chorus. Henrik has had a long career in music and is most known for his membership in the bands Komeda and Ray Wonder, and he has also released music under the name The Clown.
A couple of weeks ago Vårum released the debut single “Scream”, a piece of cool, laidback disco-inviting electropop which wet the appetite for more. Today he’s releasing the debut EP “Disco Damaged” with another 4 tracks to enjoy. Behind Vårum we find Bjørn Thomassen, born and raised on Lofoten in Norway, but nowadays living in London. The inspiration comes from the cold desolated nights in the big city, he writes, but you can just as well imagine sparkling ice flakes and a vast, mighty sea when you hear the music. He’s not only aiming for the dancefloor here, he wants us to take a pause and just listen as well on a varying and quite dynamic album. I can sense some nostalgic vibes from older synthpop and some hints of Alan Parsons Project also, but there’s no doubt that the songs belong on the electronica scene of today and should be fit to fill some floors in London clubs in the time to come.
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