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

Cannons

this ep consists of two indie songs ive been working on in my spare time. the tone i was going for was sorta lofi indie experimental bedroom pop with theming about delirium and invoking nostalgia.

God'sHand~ (ft. Unclenathannn)

Rennes

Mosh Death

Dreamin'

The Collapse

Polaroid

Praying Mantis (Dance With Me)

Okay To Be Alone

#artrock #alternativerock #progrock 

sometimes
i feel like i should make a wish at the wishing well
but i
am too thrifty to cast a spell

boisterous
overrun
i feel like my days of living have just begun

untied but
underdone
now i feel like living has been shunned
sometimes

i feel like i should make a wish at the wishing well
but i am too afraid that i'll get caught

will we ever
make it out of the undertow
will we ever
learn when to stop and grow

i want to see the edge
i want to know the fall
but I don't want to die at all

Boisterous

From the upcoming album "Say So", out 5/20 on Cuneiform Records

Pre-order at http://tinyurl.com/bksayso

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Bent Knee is:
Ben Levin - guitar & vocals
Chris Baum - violin & vocals
Courtney Swain - lead vocals & keyboards
Gavin Wallace-Ailsworth - drums
Jessica Kion - bass & vocals
Vince Welch - production & sound design

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Lyrics:

I feel so possessive darling
Keep my toes close to you
With pointed finger I still
Count myself in sets of two

We’ll be so progressive darling
Solar cell on our roof
We’ll renew our vows each morning
Hyperloop our kids to school

I can be malignant darling
When the truth is plain to see
I thought you for hours this week
I’m your best shot presently

I say hands up
I say hands down
When I look inside me baby
You’re throwing me all around
I see flash bulbs
I see LEDs
No matter where I look man
You’re the brightest light in front of me

I seem so pathetic darling
Check my phone constantly
Texts loop like a mantra through me
Buzzing blasts of dopamine

I say hands up
I say hands down
When I look inside me baby
You’re throwing me all around
I see flash bulbs
I see LEDs
No matter where I look man
You’re the brightest light in front of me

We can see the sea change darling
When we touch wirelessly
With our sweaty clothes and eyebrows
We’ll remember how it feels to feel everything

Please don’t go, la la la...

Hands Up

10 The Story Of Cancer MST V1

Victor Rivkin's album Chameleons out now on streaming services and Bandcamp!

   My favorite music includes: dredg, Agent Fresco, Muse, Sleep Token, TV on the Radio, Bent Knee, Maraton, 22, ††† (Crosses), The Mars Volta, Minus the Bear, Polyenso, Radiohead, Incubus, Bon Iver, Kaddisfly, Strata, Anathema, mewithoutYou, RX Bandits, Tom Morello, Fair to Midland, Sparta, As Tall As Lions, At The Drive-In, Mute Math, Bjork, Tagaq, Vennart, Oceansize, Celebration, The Intersphere, Broken Iris, Biffy Clyro, Bloc Party, Voyager, Leprous, Closure in Moscow, OAK from Oslo, Apes & Androids, Anathallo, Silverchair, Clann Zu, The Dear Hunter, The Receiving End of Sirens, Hotel of the Laughing Tree, Karnivool, Hootie and the Blowfish, Maximum Balloon, Junius, Children of Nova, The Panic Division, Stoneside, The Barnum Meserve, alt-j, Breaking Orbit, Jericco, Fjokra, Manchester Orchestra,Death From Above 1979, Silversun Pickups, Pixies, Neverending White Lights, Deftones, Black Map, Colours, Psychic Babble, Pure Reason Revolution, K Sera, Volcano Choir, The Contortionist, Matthew Good, Ramona Falls, The Verve Pipe, Black Map, Haken, Einar Solberg, and Dim Gray

Praying Mantis (Dance With Me)

Victor Rivkin

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