""sometimes it hurts, sometime I try to hide what I feel..."
I can tell you the moment that "Madness on the Rise" by Denmark based singer-songwriter Jacob Faurholt glued itself to my heart. It happens at 42 seconds in when a Trine Omø's vocals (from the Danish alternative pop act Det Nye Navn) holds onto Jacob's voice with a beautiful harmony, "sometimes it hurts, sometime I try to hide what I feel... sometimes it works, madness on the rise..." and I love the tenderness of those voices together. She hangs on for most of the rest of the song. Set to a lo-fi-esque drum machine beat, the ascensions have the beauty of something akin to an 80's R.E.M song and the rolling melancholia feels more heavy by distorted guitar falling all over the clean electric guitar.
It is all so lovely and beautifully sad. Fall into the sadness with shards of hope embedded inside if this sort of thing speaks to you. It does to me. "Madness on the Rise" with this accompanying Official Animated Video (made by Shari M Carrera aka Rabbëats) is from Jacob Faurholt's upcoming album "When the Spiders Crawl" (out august 26).
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Jacob Faurholt is a songwriter from Denmark who makes music in his own name and under the moniker Crystal Shipsss. He mostly records his albums at home and releases them on limited vinyl through his own imprint Raw Onion Records. Faurholt’s music has often been described as lo-fi and “homemade”, so it’s no wonder that his influences count artists such as Sparklehorse, Daniel Johnston and Guided By Voices.
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Jacob Faurholt, singer-songwriter, musician, Denmark based, (formerly Crystal Shipsss), indie rock, folk indie, indie pop, melancholy pop, "Madness on the Rise",
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