WHERE MERMAIDS DROWN (FRA)

🇬🇧 The album Reminisce (2023) transposes to the band’s saturated and dreamlike post rock the idea that any love relationship, however painful, deserves a life with all its devotion, doubts, separation, mourning, relief. What is the mermaid? A temptress, a bringer of good fortune? On the album And the Raging Winds Do Blow (2021), a voiceover narrates the mid-18th century ballad known as “The Mermaid”, which tells of mermaids that they are signs of storms and impending shipwrecks. This is “where mermaids drown” the poor misadventurers.

🇩🇰 Albummet Reminisce (2023) sætter mættet og drømmende post rock til den idé, at ethvert kærlighedsforhold, uanset hvor smertefuld, fortjener et liv med alt hvad der hører med af forelskelse, tvivl, adskillelse, sorg, lettelse. Hvad er en havfrue (’mermaid’)? En forførerske, en lykkebringer? På albummet And the Raging Winds Do Blow (2021), fortæller en voiceover balladen “The Mermaid” (fra midten af det 19.årh.), der lader os vide, at havfruer varsler storm og skibbrud. Og det er hér, hvor havfruerne drukner (’where mermaids drown’) de arme søfolk.