Norwegian duo Smerz have released Believer, their debut album, out now via XL Recordings. With Believer, which Motzfeldt and Stoltenberg starting working on three years ago, they formalise the boundless sonic world that started to emerge within each of their famed NTS shows: these new songs seamlessly weave together techniques and sounds pulled from chamber and classical music, hip hop, R&B, and trance, but the end product is something altogether uncanny. Working mostly on their computer, their main instrument, Motzfeldt and Stoltenberg search...
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Norwegian duo Smerz have announced the release of Believer, their debut album, coming on 26 February 2021 via XL Recordings. The announcement is accompanied by a music video for the title track. “The lyrics for this song were written over a period of almost two years,” the duo recall. “So it ended up having a natural development parallel to our lives.” ‘Believer’ is another taste from the forthcoming album that...
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Norway’s Smerz return with two new songs, shared in the form of a trailer for an as-yet-unannounced project known as Believer. The visual takes shape around the songs ‘The favourite‘ and ‘Rap interlude‘, a taster for a forthcoming body of work that pushes Smerz far beyond their previous releases. The duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg decamped for a time from Copenhagen (where they cut their teeth in the...
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Dyson Stringer Cloher – the iconic project of three of Australia’s most accomplished and dynamic songwriters, Jen Cloher, Mia Dyson and Liz Stringer – have released their debut self-titled album via Milk! Records. Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer and Jen Cloher have spent most of their lives thousands of miles from one another – Mia in Los Angeles, Liz in Toronto and Jen in Melbourne. Their debut self-titled album was recorded at Wilco’s studio The Loft in Chicago, with Jeff Tweedy’s guitars, as you do, with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche on drums and Tom Schick the Grammy Award-winning engineer. As you do....
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Dyson Stringer Cloher have announced their debut self titled album will be released 4 October through Milk! Records. Check out their video for new single ‘Believer,’ an anthem in owning your aspiration, and inspired by the AFLW. Catch the iconic trio on tour around the country in November. Cloher says of the video, “I remember the day Tayla Harris’ kick was immortalised. Women in my circle, mostly musicians, posted the now...
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