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I love seeing 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘔𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 by I Was A King (beautiful jangle pop from Norway) on Big Takeover Magazine editor Jack Rabid's "200 Best Albums of 2022" at #9!
“The previous two records were very band-oriented,” the band’s Frode Strømstad says. “We felt that doing it as a two-piece this time would be a fresh approach, playing instruments we normally don’t play just to get some different ideas and textures and keeping it as simple and organic as possible.”
Hello! More love today for the lovely "Sweet Things" by I Was A King.
York Calling says the tune reminds of "the sort of folk-rock music that became popular in the 60s and 70s."
Remember the old Elektra Records logo with the butterfly from that era? That's my jam. I am personally reminded of that by this song.
Listen. It's a beauty.
"The more time I spend with this song, the more I’m almost frightened by how incredible it is."
I do not disagree with this statement by Austin Town Hall about I Was A King! Click through to see the "Growing Wild" video and be sure to hear 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘔𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 in full this Friday, October 28.
"Impeccable melodic instincts... abrasively beautiful."
Kind words from MAGNET Magazine this morning about I Was A King, as we are given the new video for the new single from the new album.
BrooklynVegan says that "Growing Wild" goes into "more melancholy territory, while keeping the hook count high" and Donald Milne's video for the song perfectly captures the mood.
The full-length 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘔𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 arrives October 28. Click for your life!
'''Growing Wild' goes into more melancholy territory, while keeping the hook count high." Thanks to BrooklynVegan this morning for the premiere of a new I Was A King single!
"Growing Wild" is out everywhere tomorrow, but you can hear it now. That's how premieres work!
The new I Was A King album 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘔𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦 is out at the end of the month on October 28.
Click for your life!
The front cover art for Follow Me Home, the ninth album by Oslo, Norway’s I Was A King (Coastal Town Recordings, Oct. 28) displays dotted lines that correspond to colorful cutouts on the back cover, one for each of the album’s twelve songs.
This is an innocent, childlike prompt to play it like a puzzle, literally, but on a more figurative note, this bit of fun also feels like a suggestion to fill in the blanks on what these songs mean to the listener.
“We recorded Follow Me Home in December of 2021 in a building that had been a very important hub for Norwegian music over the last 20 years,” Frode Strømstad, one-half of the duo with Anne Lise Frø, explains. “While we were making the album, the building was emptied, and the heat and water shut off. It has since been demolished.”
Even under these considerably less-than-ideal circumstances, Strømstad and Frøkedal managed to make another reality of the time – producing these recordings during a lockdown – work to their advantage. The minimal take on the sound that I Was A King had been traveling towards all this time is its strongest asset on Follow Me Home.
“The previous two records were very band-oriented,” Strømstad says. “We felt that doing it as a two-piece this time would be a fresh approach, playing instruments we normally don’t play just to get some different ideas and textures and keeping it as simple and organic as possible.”
