Anders Trentemøller hasn’t featured in NMC for quite some time now (since January 2022 to be exact) and I was surprised to learn that hasn’t been creatively active since that year either when he released the ‘Memoria’ album. Except that he has, of course.
This year he has announced a new album, ‘Dreamweaver’, which sounds psychy, and which will see the light of day on Friday 13th September, which isn’t a day I’d like to trust an album release on.
Two tracks have already been released so this is the third and one that sees the Icelander Disa bearing vocal responsibilities, having done so since the ‘Memoria’ tour and having since contributed to the singles.
Song titles like ‘Nightfall’ make me think of Adele epics for obvious reasons and while Disa is a different sort of singer altogether, floating in the half light background like a siren against the wailing of a guitar pitted against the repetitive melody of another one, this is a degree of epicness about this song, too.
But it isn’t the epicness of a ‘sky fall’, more of a sedate balloon ride at dusk, rising high above the rooftops before returning in the last dying moments of daylight.
It’s a strange song in that there is no verse/chorus structure, rather it winds its merry way along, meandering like ‘Fade into you 2.0’ might sound and then, four fifths of the way through, it develops a new urgency a short bridge that builds into an outro that terminates with J Arthur Rank’s gong.
That’s a longwinded way of saying that it is different, but then that is what Trentemøller is all about. He’s as hard to pin down as is M83. I checked back just a couple of reviews and he was channeling New Order.
What will he come up with next? You won’t have to dream long before you find out.
‘Dreamweaver’ drops in September, on Friday the 13th.
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