This Is Head moved into a cabin on the island Mjörn on the Swedish west coast last year, and wrote and recorded the tracks that will be included on their third album in the Autumn. Last month the first single “People” was released and a week ago “Timmerdalen” was presented together with a video. Up until the album launch they will release another single and three more videos. Here are the first tastes from the record.
Today This Is Head released another single, “Repetition”, from their album “The Album ID”. And this time it’s something quite different and extra interesting they serve us. As it turns out the original song contains multiple shapes which are now revealed.
They write that if you listen carefully you can distinguish several ideas within the song, seemingly incompatible with each other. For one you can hear that the song has a rock drive which could be developed further, there is also a streak of dance rhythms throughout the song and finally there’s the ambient part, the chirping of birds as they describe it. For this release they picked these three elements out of the song and let them form three new songs, and added also the original song of course. A fascinating and fun single idea. Listen to all four versions here below where they’ve labeled the different versions as radio (rock), slow (ambient) and dance and then the original last. You can also watch a video to the radio version, where they clearly show what repetition means if you’re standing by the pool side. :)
This Is Head also released a single in Summer, from their second album, “The Album ID“. It’s one of my album favourites together with two remixes by El Perro Del Mar and Prince Rama that made it to the single. Here are two of the tracks together with a music video made by Maciej Kalymon.
This Is Head released their second album “The Album ID” in March. It’s great fun to listen through this album, an album free from conventions and predictability. I haven’t listened that much to their acclaimed debut album from 2010, so I won’t go into any comparisons. It’s in any case hard to define their music more than giving some hints like for example U2 meets David Bowie meets post rock meets indie experimentation; it varies from song to song and a great deal of my joy with the album is the journey in itself, to become surprised, notice details, and enjoy smooth melodies and cool turnarounds. Here’s a few tracks to taste, but I recommend listening from start to finish.
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