I’m somewhat blown away by the bigness of this tune. It all began as I started another edition of Hypem Hunting (since it’s been almost a month since the last one, due to me not having time to do anything these days) and I chose the word “break” just because I thought it might turn up a bunch of results, and this was the first tune that caught my attention, right off the bat. And then it just kept growing and growing, to the point where I almost felt guilty burying it in a post with 3 or 4 other songs where it might get lost instead of giving it its own time in the spotlight. And that brings us to right now, as I find out that these wonderful shoegaze sounds (really big wonderful shoegaze sounds, I might add) are from Sweden’s Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck aka I Break Horses and it’s the first of several singles that will lead up to a full length album later this year. While I’m not that surprised that a fantastic song is a product of a Scandinavian artist, this is not really a sound I associate with Scandinavian music. In fact, it gave me much of the same feelings that i got from “Beat The Happy Pavement” by Australia’s Tantrums, a song that doesn’t grow as much as this one but is still an equally interesting exercise in musical textures. You win again, Scandinavia….you always do.
And if you’re still not convinced, you should watch this stunning video directed by Alex Southam which is made up of some eye-catching time-lapsed videos of some pretty majestic landscapes.
