"I like to focus on the end when I die"
On a fresh listen there is usually a specific moment when a piece of music hits you as something special. On Oslo, Norway based Benedikt's indie folk dark blessing, "Head on a Spike", it is when the chord direction moves beautifully from D flat minor to D flat sus 2, if my ears are not failing me. From that point the sadly drawn wide eyed melancholia falls easily into my head and heart propelled by classically painted indie folk orchestrations and Hans Olav Settems hushed lush vocal aesthetic spouting bouncy melodies with sustains that spiral down in depressive ways.
"Head on a Spike" is the 4th single from Benedikt's upcoming album "Balcony Dream" due to drop on April 16th and the once solo project of Settems, Benedikt is turned into a nine piece band whose members are scattered all across Norway. Of the song, they share:
‘“Head On A Spike” is a personal anthem about growing up in a small town. With a mellow nostalgia it’s looking back on losing innocence and gaining new perspectives. All the while growing more self loathing, than self confident along the way. It was born out of revisiting places from our life that we, without noticing it ourself, must have tried to forget about."
The song floats along on a beat that could be a foot stomp on an empty Church floor and the double time strings and backing vox that become an ethereal engine, "huh, huh, huh, huh", is crushing and dreamy. The words seem to intersect death with oblique imagery of youthful remembering's, of a larger story that you really want to find out about with, maybe, the final human coda being just the beginning.
please just man up and tear my body apart cuz my soul is nothing magical, it's just the start
after that just put my head up on a spike, like to focus on the end when I die
-Robb Donker Curtius
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A 9-piece indie/folk-group. Sophomore album set to release early 2021
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