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Tracklisting:

1) Gofer – Yucky Duster
2) The End Parts One and Two – Paper Bee
3) Pas De Deux – Brenda’s Friend
4) Mostly Homely – Exam Season
5) rosy – Long Neck
6) Cool It! – Terry vs. Tori
7) best thought – Honeyuck
8) buttery sprouts – Trace Mountains
9) Green Ennui – Flying Circles
10) Memento Mori – Jake Bellissimo
11) Same Light – Tim Lannen
12) Golden Car – Tincho
13) Can’t Take My Mind – Skyjelly
14) E.V.I.L – Medicine Boy
15) Bike Thief – Frederick Squire
16) Oh Well – Adeline Hotel
17) Offering – Loone
18) Something Profound & Meaningful – See You At Home
19) Bowl of Plums – Ben Seretan
20) Muted Colours – Chain Wallet
21) Little One – Aaron Holm
22) Fear O’ the Light – Katie Dey
23) Protracted – William Ryan Fritch
24) Dizzy – Danielle Fricke
25) Uncanny – Sister Grotto
26) Hands in Our Names – Karima Walker

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The record, which explores “themes of betrayal, idleness and crushed dreams”, charts the existential breakdown of an troubled protagonist, delving into what Boris describes as “his self-indulgent pity, gradual loss of touch with reality and his forlorn attempts on returning to normal life”. As you might expect, such a record is fractured and pretty and strange, almost transcendentally rich yet underpinned with a certain nagging sadness, the vague subconscious knowledge that reality is waiting, unchanged, for their return. As Boris continues:

“The abrupt disintegration unveils interesting tensions between urgency and inertia. The album is about fragmented memories, unfulfilled ambitions and the quiet whisper of a stranger”

‘Muted Colours’ is the first single from Chain Wallet. As with much of their music to date, the song occupies a strange space between good-time pop escapism and melancholy shoegaze. The shimmering haze adds a certain sense of nostalgia for times past and dissolves the distinction between happy and sad so that they conjoin into one dense, glittering fog.

Chain Wallet is due for release on the 7th October via Jansen Plateproduksjon. In the meantime, you can check out their previous singles via the Chain Wallet Soundcloud page.

Photo by Synne Sofi Bønes

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