A selection of the best tracks from February 2017. Chosen by the Danish music blog Musik Mig Blidt
www.musikmigblidt.dk

Guldkorn Februar 2017

#2016 

Music By PRUNES

Written By Mike Wind & Nichlas Kure 

Mixed By Peter Rossel Lademann

I've Got To Try

Taken from Communions debut album, Blue, out on 3rd February 2017

Preorder Blue
http://smarturl.it/communions-blue

Communions live
Fri. 27th JAN – Skraen, Aalborg, DK.
Sat. 28th JAN – TAPE, Aarhus, DK.
Wed. 15th FEB – The Lexington, London, UK.
Sun. 26th FEB – Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan.
Fri. 17th MAR – VEGA, Copenhagen, DK.
Tues. 16th MAY – Rotonde, Brussels, Belgium

Communions - It's Like Air

On their brand new debut single «Sunshine Crawlers» Norwegian newcomers Haunted Mansions bring warmth and understated confidence to their hiphop-inspired indie weirdness. The Trondheim-based duo's  first offering is full of insistent pop hooks, and is a great introduction to their sound. 

Haunted Mansions namecheck Portugal The Man, Danger Mouse and Gorillaz when asked to describe their music and while those artists have inspired Haunted Mansions it's clear to all that they bring their own flavour to the music as well. 

The song combines old-school hiphop beats, almost shimmering acoustic guitars, textured synths and weird, smoky and infectious vocals to perfection. «Sunshine Crawlers» is seductive in all it’s gloom, mildly psychedelic and strongly melodic, but most of all just really great. 

It’s a song about social injustice, about realizing that the world is blindingly unfair and that there really isn’t that much hope to be found. Still, there are undertones of resistance, a subdued call to arms. The last chorus rises above the gloom and asks «Who’s laughing now» as it perhaps finds an ever so slight glimmer of light in the enveloping darkness of modern society.

Thomas: "We had been flirting with the idea of writing songs and starting a band together for a long time, and it just sort of happened one day. As Vegard was leaving my studio he heard the initial demo for Sunshine Crawlers with no vocals from the hallway, and went back with an old melody of his, that just fit the song. From there everything just fell into place and the song was incredibly easy to complete. It is the first song we wrote together."

HAUNTED MANSIONS - Sunshine Crawlers

Happy to announce that SWR-009 will be the debut 7’’ single by Modest.

Modest is Julius Lykke, Stinus Kruse, Jacob Tjerrild and Jacob Ahlers. The four boys hail from Aarhus, Denmark, and have been playing as Modest since they met three years ago. Keeping live appearances to a minimum, they have devoted most of their time to writing and perfecting their sound. The two songs on Pretty Sure It’s Honest show Modest at their best yet. Modest manages to capture a sound, which might remind some of a whole other decade, but their forward momentum is undeniable.

Dugout and Pride was recorded and mixed by Jens Benz and Mastered by Emil Thomsen, E.T. Mastering. 
Artwork by Natal Zaks

Out on May 12th.
Pre-order - https://goo.gl/dWwuZE

Modest - Dugout

New single "Escapism Deluxe" out Feb 3, 2017
New EP "Empressionism" out Feb 10, 2017
Music Video to "Escapism Deluxe" Premiered by Noisey: http://bit.ly/2m950mr

Stream/Download: http://smarturl.it/EscapismDeluxe

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rubyempresss/
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Empressionism

Escapism Deluxe

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Musik Mig Blidt is a music blog based in Copenhagen, Denmark that promotes new and exciting music - mostly with a dreamy, melancholic or mildly psychedelic expression.

Musik Mig Blidt means "Music Me Softly"

Promos and information can also be sent to my email address: mail@musikmigblidt.dk