Who I Am talks about what is left after life has turned everything around. You went through something major, felt down and depressed, struggled with your path and whether you should continue the way you did. It’s a song about fragility, desperation, new beginnings and the feeling that everything has changed but that the core of who you are still remains. What defines you will ultimately stay, no matter how shaken up you are by life’s’ struggle and changes.

Who I Am (feat. Hannah Epperson)

Deep Waters talks about being reckless, not caring for your own life enough to protect it from literally being swallowed by a deep, dark ocean. It depicts the image of someone standing at the edge of a cliff and pondering over the idea of jumping into the vastness of the sea, letting it take you whole. There will most likely be a time in each of our lives where we feel so hopeless, that we don’t want to go on. We are trying to run from it, we are trying to plead with some higher power to free us, we want to get rid of all the darkness we carry. But let’s face it, that simply won’t work and neither would it serve us in the long run. So, we either jump to put an end to our own life or we have the courage to go on, face the darkness, let it shape us, like the ocean does the landscapes. Only one part of the original song ‚survived’ the recording session. The rest of the music and lyrics have been written in a tiny cottage in Denmark, very close to the ocean, but without any treacherous cliffs.

Deep Waters

Gold talks about realising that every human experience is essentially precious and worth honouring. All we have is gold, even the pieces and parts that we’d like to erase about ourselves, the things that are not pretty, not appropriate, not the way they’re supposed to be. At the end of the song, however, there is a lot of doubt about whether everything will keep getting better once we realise that life is precious. It ends with the uneasy premonition that things will get really dark, before they will turn lighter again.
The track was the first song to be recorded in Denmark. We recorded everything on our own in a little cottage, with the help of a mobile studio that we brought along with us.

All We Have Is Gold

Gold

Home explores the idea of belonging and finding a home in yourself, that truly feels authentic. It’s about all the confusion and uncertainty that goes along with the search for meaning and purpose in life. Home is the first single of the upcoming album and the result of an intense songwriting and recording process.

Home

‘Jenny’ talks about experiencing dark moments in your life and feeling like there is no possible way out of it. We wanted to explore the way someone might perceive the world through this lense of anxiety and hopelessness and it made us wonder what it might take for that person to see a silver lining and to feel like they belong again. ‘Jenny’ is the second single off the upcoming album ‘Home’. It was written and recorded in one day and came together very intuitively.

Jenny

Thunder talks about those sudden changes in life that you didn’t anticipate. It’s the feeling of being completely fine one minute and next thing you know, you feel like your whole world is collapsing. Those moments that feel like a storm that is rolling in so quickly that you didn’t even have the time to prepare yourself for what’s to come. Almost mockingly and in stark contrast to the theme of the song, the music feels very light and up-tempo and more like a dance track. Thunder thrives on the interplay of these two opposing forces.

HOME

Thunder

Pamela is heavily influenced by the aesthetic of movies like ‘Drive’ or ‘Blade Runner’ and has that very smooth vibe, which makes it the perfect track for late-night driving. The song talks about all of the contradictions that we find ourselves in as humans. We try to fix what's not perfect, put on that make-up, try to fit the mold, manufacture a picture of ourselves designed for the perception of others. However, there is that feeling that all of these outward factors are irrelevant because they are not who we are. ‘I don’t feel right here in the light, ‘cause I do belong here with the night’, essentially wants to say that you are not made up by all the shiny things on the outside, but more importantly by all the little things that we try to keep in the dark too often.

Pamela

Imagine you were a person on a spaceship, all by yourself for years, floating in deep space. You would feel the longing for human love, for someone to say your name out loud. How does it feel to be so lonely, to feel so detached from everything that makes us human? How does it feel to know that you will never feel that connection again? Human Love is a reflection on modern society on life happening on screens and on losing connection to reality.

Human Love

Three musicians. Two brothers. One married couple. This is KOJ. Together they give life to a sound that is full of contrasts, sometimes roaring, untamed and raw, as the ocean that inspires them, other times delicate, fragile and minimalistic.

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