Tennysons nye spor

Tennyson: »Rot«

Canadiske Tennyson – eller den unge hjemmeproducer og popsanger Luke Pretty – har længe ledt efter en identitet, men en høreskade (som følge af fugtinfektioner i barndomshjemmet) ledte ham på et nyt spor, der er endt ud i et sprudlende postmoderne popalbum, hvor genreforvirringen er total, og man aldrig helt kan føle sig sikker på, hvad der venter en.

For i sin terapeutiske jagt på lyde har Tennyson begået en lille genistreg.

»Feelwithchu« har warpede vokaler og sindssyge breakbeats, den fængende »Door« blander effektivt 00’er R&B og IDM. Der er hele tiden en god lytteoplevelse mere på næste track. Andre højdepunkter er de opklippede beats på den tropichousede »Iron« eller den rundtossede brug af samples på den glimrende »Reallywanna«. Men i det hele taget er Rot en stærkt eksperimenterende og legesyg poplade, der skal opleves for at kunne udleves. Det er som at høre en gal popprofessor kreere et vanvittigt eksperiment, der rent faktisk lykkes. It’s alive!

playlist

13.06.2023

My name is Allan Gravgaard Madsen – would you like to see my playlist?

»In his music, composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen tries to create a better version of himself.«

Allan Gravgaard Madsen is a Danish composer based in Copenhagen. His most recent works include Träume nicht and Nachtmusik. He tries to create a better version of himself in his music – where his personality tends to be restless, chatty and has an active inner life, his music is controlled, simple and merciless in its expression. He is the recipient of the Carl Nielsen & Anne Marie Carl-Nielsens Hæderspris 2022.

in briefrelease

23.01.2022

Finnish Space Travel

Tomutonttu: »Hoshi«

Vauva, 02.12

Kristoffer Møllegaard

The Finnish multimedia artist Jan Anderzén has, with the album Hoshi, released under the solo moniker Tomutonttu, created a true little star. Not only because »hoshi« literally means »star« in Japanese, but above all due to the music itself. There is something cosmic, yet infinitely minute, about the sonic worlds Anderzén conjures—like a galaxy reflected in a puddle, or a space journey in a rocket carved from a hollow tree trunk. Synths emit busy, warm blips and bloops, while ultra-short vocal and instrumental samples create a recognizable blur. At once artificial and organic – soft, rounded, jagged, crackling.

Anderzén approaches sound with a playfulness I simply adore. His music is strange in an incredibly comforting way. It places me in a kind of colorful, trance-like state, only interrupted when, several times over the course of the album, I find myself smiling in delight at a particularly great sound. The synths on »Katse osuu sähköön!« The choral samples on »Kesä oli äkkiä ohi!« Milo Linnovaara’s flute on »Malta lausua ‘AH’!« And many more. Hoshi is an album packed with microscopic moments that together form a frayed, exploding, radiant, idiosyncratic whole—a stellar moment of just under 38 minutes.