Onetime BTW Under Byen’s fourth album Alt Er Tabt (“All Is Lost”) is out in April. The Denmark group’s followup to 2006′s Samme Stof Som Stof definitely has an anguished, although not done-for feel. In their new form, they’re without a pianist and their one-time orchestra, which makes things immediately sparer, like the whispered warping and unfurling bedroom-folk abstractions of Islaja or Lau Nau. See, for instance, the collection’s quietly swarming title track. In a translated statement about its video, director (and visual artist) Sidse Carstens says she’s commenting on “how women of today still have to tear down their conception of perfection.” It’s like an intensely spare diorama installation. The Yellow Wallpaper came up around the water cooler this morning. You wouldn’t be wrong to think about “Romance Is Boring,” too.
Your soundtrack for preparing tonight’s dinner:
Alt Er Tabt is out 4/6 via Paper Bag.
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Can really recommend them, one of the most interesting Danish alternative bands
weird how theyre aping the freak folk finnish scene now, particularly islaja
great band, amazing video. good job stereogum.
I’m so elated Under Byen didn’t just fall by the wayside. They’re so unbelievably good. And how is it possible that this video is exactly what my mind would produce right now if it could (and were that conceptually genius)? Nice Yellow Wallpaper shoutout too btw. FTW.