Following in the wake of Flown, their critically acclaimed 2020 debut album, Norwegian art rockers Dim Gray return with its follow-up, Firmament, this September. The album will be released on English Electric Recordings, the label run by UK prog titans Big Big Train.

Consisting of twelve direct, vivid and melody-driven songs, it is a record bursting with life and colour, making for an engaging and constantly surprising journey as it weaves a route from strings-infused chamber pop, through evocative indie-folk and lush electronics and into grandiose art rock. 

Thematically, Dim Gray further explore the landscape of loneliness and melancholy that was introduced on Flown, but this time those sensations are contextualised in the depressions of the modern world juxtaposed against romanticised ideas of "simpler times" through childhood memories interspersed with myths and superstition.

Dim Gray incorporate elements from folk music into a forward-thinking aesthetic. A wide and ever-changing palette of sounds and ideas is rooted in the constants of aching vocals and subtly reverbed guitars.

The trio who form Dim Gray come from three different places—musically and geographically. Håkon Høiberg, Oskar Holldorff and Tom Ian Klungland all moved to Oslo in 2012. The three members have contrasting musical backgrounds in genres as diverse as black metal, prog, blues, folk and film music, but in fusing these together they began to develop something distinctive and unique.

The band released their debut album Flown in 2020, a concept record with intertwining songs structured like one continuous story. The album relates a vivid tale of loss and loneliness that constantly twists and turns, with intimate and spatial moments offset with massive and colourful soundscapes.

‘Elegiac and beautifully dense post-prog from Norway’ – Prog

‘Well-written and superbly performed material that stays with you’ – Guitarist

Mare

Released on July 31 2019. Available on all streaming platforms!

Written and composed by Kim Erik Berg.
Performed by Hans Marius Indahl, Jarle Skår Nor, Simen Tjora, Lars Håvard Myklatun, Christian Moe Bråttvik, Marie Tveiten and Kim Erik Berg.
Recorded at Stable Studios, Oslo.
Mixing Engineer: Hans Andreas Horntveth Jahnsen.
Mastering Engineer: Chris Sansom.
Photo: Helen Walne.

Dear Defeat

Released on November 26th 2019. Available on all streaming platforms!

Written and composed by Kim Erik Berg.
Performed by Hans Marius Indahl, Jarle Skår Nor, Simen Tjora, Lars Håvard Myklatun, Christian Moe Bråttvik and Kim Erik Berg.
Recorded at Stable Studios, Oslo.
Mixing Engineer: Hans Andreas Horntveth Jahnsen.
Mastering Engineer: Chris Sansom.
Photo: Helen Walne.

Everything Falls Into Place

‘Elegiac and beautifully dense post-prog from Norway.’  – Prog (UK)
‘Masterpiece. 6/6, Norwegian Album of the Year.’ – Disharmoni (NO)
‘The dream debut that every band hopes for and that few bands are capable of.’ – iO Pages (NL)
‘I cannot remember having heard a stronger debut album. Revelation of the Year.’ – NRK ProgLogg (NO)
‘A better debut could not have been hoped for. 10/10.’ – Musipedia of Metal (UK)

Oslo-based art rockers Dim Gray play melody-driven songs in a post-progressive vein, incorporating elements from folk music into a forward-thinking aesthetic that results in a hauntingly evocative sound. A wide and sophisticated palette of sounds and ideas is rooted in yearning vocals and subtly reverbed guitars.

The trio who form Dim Gray came from different places, both musically and geographically, with all three - Håkon Høiberg, Oskar Holldorff and Tom Ian Klungland - moving from different parts of Norway to its capital city in 2012 to continue their studies. Having found each other, they soon began playing together. The three members have contrasting musical backgrounds in genres as diverse as black metal, progressive rock, blues, folk and film music, but in fusing these together they began to develop something distinctive and unique. 

2020 saw the band issue the songs ‘Ráth', ‘Again', 'Light Anew' and ‘Ouroboros' prior to a digital only debut album entitled Flown in the summer. A concept record with intertwining songs structured like one continuous story, the album relates a vivid tale of loss and loneliness that constantly twists and turns, with intimate and spatial moments offset with massive and colourful soundscapes. Describing their lyrical approach, the band explain that “rather than tell a linear story, we attempted to structure it as a circular narrative, with the protagonist trapped in a downward spiral, a vicious cycle without a clear beginning or ending. The story can be interpreted in various ways, but the lyrical themes remain centred around loss, longing and loneliness, and the psychological toll these feelings can take on a person.”

Musically, Flown weaves a route from strings-infused chamber pop, through dark indie folk and into grandiose art rock. It is an ambitious musical statement that will appeal to fans of artists such as Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Steven Wilson, Sigur Rós and Susanne Sundfør.

Flown was released on double vinyl and CD 25 June. The band is currently in the final stages of recording their sophomore album, to be released in the spring of 2022.


Dim Gray are:
Håkon Høiberg—guitars, vocals
Oskar Holldorff—vocals, keyboards
Tom Ian Klungland—drums, vocals

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