Credits:

Smerz

Description:

Awakening Fables trance in the Norwegian forest... The long-awaited debut album from Smates, the great successor to Björk's pop and madness, is now available on XL Recordings! The long-awaited debut album is now available on XL Recordings! The first public release of "I don't talk about that much" is a whiteout with an accelerating trance, a barrage of juke/footwork and waking R&B vocals, while the title track "Believer" chats about this world like a fable over a disturbingly churning syncopated beat and beautiful daydream-like strings. Led by the title track "Believer," which chats about the present world like an allegory amidst a disturbingly churning, syncopated beat and daydreamy strings, this album takes the art of Bjork, Lars von Trier, and Peter Greenaway and brings the nostalgia and romance of Norwegian culture and art history into the madness of the present.The album is a hybrid of trance, hip-hop, R&B, traditional Scandinavian folk music, opera, musicals, and classical music from his own background, while resonating with the Norwegian underground club scene, which has been on the rise in recent years. Here it is.