Beyondless, 2018

“After the last record, we had creatively exhausted ourselves. It took a minute before the direction of where we were to head next suggested itself and I went of and did a couple of records with Marching Church.

Initially, I think we set off to write a raw and reptilian-brained rock n roll record, but of course, it became something of different measure than what we had intended.

Informed and inspired by new desperate and penniless times in New York City, now with a bit of broken heart in the mix. I think the record explores a heroic kind of hopelessness. A valiant debauchery.

Recorded in Gothenburg, in a studio obsessed with collecting gear also present in Motown’s Studio A, I think this is the record where we started using the studio space as an instrument in itself, while properly flirting with arrangement. It’s kind of a sexy record too.”

Seek Shelter, 2021

“This one is somehow the most strenuous to speak on, as the distance to having committed the thing is shorter. It was recorded in Lisbon, in an old dilapidated radio studio. Tall wooden walls and ceilings where rain was literally coming in from the cracks. Nis Bysted is the man we recorded all of our records with but here we added Spacemen 3’s legendary Sonic Boom in the producer’s seat. The songs are bigger here, the roof seems to have been raised. A warmth now exists in the ever-present desperation.

Look, I gotta pack my bags leaving on a month-long tour tomorrow – if you haven’t heard it, give it a listen. It’s a bloody good record.”

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