Shiny Darkly
This Danish trio had hinted at a kind of po-faced gothic glamour with cuts from their previous self- titled EP like the lost classic He’s Suicidal. But in no way had they prepared us for the extraordinary first glimpses of their debut album Little Earth, out in the UK this May via Copenhagen institution Crunchy Frog. Coming on the other side of a reputation-burgeoning stint at Iceland’s celebrated Airwaves festival (during which they played seven times), the album’s first single Dead Stars was a nine-and-a-half minute saga of distant, dead-eyed rock ‘n’ roll desperation, complete with brazen, strumless Colour Field guitar washes and Suicide’s clenched intensity, while we recently premiered the video for its follow-up Sacred Floor, which sees the band meld post-punk and synth-pop in a gothic, strobe-lit rave. Catch them at Brighton’s new music Mecca, The Great Escape, 8-10 May.
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