"sun burned heartbreak / itching through my bones..."
The telltale heart and Wizard of Oz turns to color brilliance of "Sky Forever" by Copenhagen's alt rock dreamers The Entrepreneurs feels like a beautifully unsteady dream you walk in and out of, one that might just become a nightmare. From the beginning amazing eerie bass sound (that had me thinking of Angelo Badalamenti's Twin Peaks period), the doo wop constructs, and the psychedelic yesterday recollections tumbling out of Mathias Bertelsen's art rockian, dream cast vocal performance and it definitely feels like we are no longer in Kansas. What stands out the most overall against the dark orchestrations, rolling guitar lines and cagey pretty lead guitar swirls is the sense of loss amid the sheer beauty dark or not.
Dreadfully gorgeous and blending alt rock, with shoegaze personas, psychedelic rock atmospheres, art rock surprises and a fourth act erupting with heavier distortions and I am feeling (off the top of my head) an amalgam of artists like The Fratellis, Pale Saints, Portishead, although that might change tomorrow. That is how my scattered brain works.
"Sky Forever" is the title track of their latest album that dropped back in April.
LINER NOTES (bracketed) about the album "Sky Forever"
[With “Sky Forever”, The Entrepreneurs set out to make something immediate. Adopting a dogmatic approach, the band intended to write each track quickly, play them while they still felt spontaneous and fresh, and record in a Nirvana’s “In Utero”-esque manner: Lots of microphones and little to no overdubbing, capturing the authentic sound of the band in a room. What instead came to pass, was The Entrepreneurs’ equivalent to Metallica’s “St. Anger” … not sonically, but thusly:
The band secluded themselves in a barn in rural Sweden to hunker down and there their plans fell apart. Their moods were incompatible and the band could hardly communicate. They wrote and recorded, felt utterly defeated, and when they returned to Copenhagen they didn’t listen back or speak to each other for 3-4 months. All three of them assumed this was the end of The Entrepreneurs.]
[Eventually, they opened up the sessions and started playing around, and in this process, found each other anew. Found that the former dissonance set the stage for a liberating explosion of creativity. "We are, after all, the best of playmates,” says Anders Hvass. The “In Utero” approach was scrapped and they got to work in the lab - chopping, layering, reworking the constituent parts into a different beast altogether. For the first time, each member contributed to every aspect, all of them coming with song ideas to work from, writing lyrics and beats. The album itself reflects its turbulent conception - from murky darkness to clear skies.]
The Entrepreneurs are comprised of Mathias Bertelsen (lead vox + guitar), Anders Hvass (Backing vox + bariton guitar), Jonas Wetterslev (drums).
The band secluded themselves in a barn in rural Sweden to hunker down and there their plans fell apart. Their moods were incompatible and the band could hardly communicate. They wrote and recorded, felt utterly defeated, and when they returned to Copenhagen they didn’t listen back or speak to each other for 3-4 months. All three of them assumed this was the end of The Entrepreneurs.]
[Eventually, they opened up the sessions and started playing around, and in this process, found each other anew. Found that the former dissonance set the stage for a liberating explosion of creativity. "We are, after all, the best of playmates,” says Anders Hvass. The “In Utero” approach was scrapped and they got to work in the lab - chopping, layering, reworking the constituent parts into a different beast altogether. For the first time, each member contributed to every aspect, all of them coming with song ideas to work from, writing lyrics and beats. The album itself reflects its turbulent conception - from murky darkness to clear skies.]
The Entrepreneurs are comprised of Mathias Bertelsen (lead vox + guitar), Anders Hvass (Backing vox + bariton guitar), Jonas Wetterslev (drums).
-Robb Donker Curtius
https://theentrepreneurs.bandcamp.com/
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://theentrepreneurs.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/theentrepreneursmusic/
https://x.com/entrepreneursdk
The Entrepreneurs started out as a duo when bass player Anders Hvass and singer/guitarist Mathias Bertelsen met in their teens starting high school in northern Denmark. They grew up in Thy, a rural region of Denmark, known for its creative environment and progressive youth culture, despite - or maybe because of - its remote location. As they grew older and craved new impressions, they moved across the country to Copenhagen where they met Jonas Wetterslev, who became their drummer. After touring extensively with their debut EP, the trio gained a reputation as one of the fiercest live bands in Denmark bringing their aesthetically rich and experimental take on some of rock’s most significant subgenres like punk, grunge and post-rock to stages around Europe.
The Entrepreneurs, Denmark, three piece alt rock band, new album "Sky Forever", "Sky Forever" title track, alt rock, shoegaze touches, indie rock, post punk, art rock, psychedelic rock, Copenhagen,
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