The youthful cool cinema and communal bear hugs of "Back of a car" & "Dealerz" [Live from Spot Festival] by Copenhagen- Denmark experimental alternative / ambient pop duo A Good Year (and friends), must feel like tattooed musical experiences for those who were lucky to be there. In these confusing times, it still is the shared memories that stick to us, that have emotional, societal and even political power when we most need it. I am loving the bass / drums forward tracks that cuts such a heave groove to hang on other electronic / ambient soundscapes as well as the indie rock guitar stabs (appropriately crunchy and phased). "Back of a Car" featuring Suisse Air and "Dealerz" featuring Late Verlane & Suisse Air, as live imaginings of their respective studio tracks from A Good Year's 2026 full length "Play".
Members Albert R. Hildebrand (filmmaker turned musician) and Tobias Laust Hansen (producer and former drummer of the band Liss) consider "Play" to be their debut full length (released via tastemaker label Escho).
Cool sounds, exquisitely catchy and artfully chill and Late Verlane's (Swedish singer-songwriter Viktor Persson) and Suisse air's vocals certainly elevate in special ways.
-Robb Donker Curtius
The Chicken Wheel will take you to the AP Go Fund Me- and any amount is so appreciated!
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/30F8R1qAerw8VvYtRGGg0j
https://agoodyear.bandcamp.com/album/play
https://www.instagram.com/a_good___year/
https://www.instagram.com/eschoescho/
Originally coming together through Tobias Laust’s connection to the Copenhagen band Liss, A Good Year began as an experiment in bringing music and moving images together. Tobias, a producer and former Liss drummer, and Albert, a filmmaker and visual artist turned musician, developed a project where neither the music nor the visuals simply serve the other. Instead, they create a shared world somewhere between alternative pop, ambient music, electronic music, indie, experimental songwriting and cinematic soundscapes.
Their first major release was Sofina, a 2024 audiovisual project created as both a film and soundtrack. Developed in connection with CPH, Sofina established the visual and musical language that would become central to A Good Year: acoustic guitars and organic recordings meeting electronics, pitched vocals, field recordings and imagery populated by landscapes, mysterious figures and digital worlds. The project was also shaped by a deeply personal experience of loss, making the relationship between image, atmosphere and emotion an important part of the band's identity. Since then, A Good Year have moved further into song-based music while keeping that cinematic DNA intact. Their debut album Play, released in 2026 on the Copenhagen label Escho, expands the project into a much broader collaborative universe. The album brings together Horse Vision, Koilwood, Tiffi M, Helena Gao, Quiet Light, Late Verlane, Alba Akvama, Suisse Air and MØ, with tracks including Dealerz, Back of a Car, Fight, Push & Pull, Blue Flame, If I and YSL. One of the project's most visible collaborations is “YSL” with Swedish artist Horse Vision, which has become one of A Good Year’s most streamed tracks. The song grew out of a long-running collaboration between the artists, with ideas moving between Copenhagen, Stockholm and Norway, and captures something central to A Good Year’s identity: music that feels connected to Copenhagen while still reaching far beyond Denmark.
Their live presence has followed that same idea. After appearing at SPOT Festival in Aarhus, A Good Year’s growing international profile has seen them connected with major Scandinavian festival stages, including Roskilde Festival and Way Out West / Stay Out West in Gothenburg, as their audiovisual sound continues to attract attention outside Denmark as well. Roskilde describes the project as a meeting point between cinematic moods and alternative pop, while Way Out West highlights the duo as part of the adventurous music emerging from Copenhagen.
A Good Year, experimental ambient indie duo, Copenhagen- Denmark, "Back of a car" & "Dealerz" [Live from Spot Festival], 2026 debut album "Play", electronica, ambient pop, indie rock, Albert R. Hildebrand, Tobias Laust,
No comments:
Post a Comment