"In mirrors digged up from the earth I see myself / Lambent upon my childhood fields in wounds" (Inmost Nigredo)
Fan homage to one of the best dark rock bands ever: In Solitude.
As well as to related artistic manifestations.

Friday 27 November 2020

Follow PÅGÅ in the strange maze of their charismatic debut "The Evil Year"

We have been eagerly waiting to hear it, anticipating it, trying to imagine how this creature would have been like, what sounds it would have contained and now...here it finally is: today PÅGÅ's debut album, "The Evil Year", is out there and can be streamed in its compelling, strange and otherworldly entirety.

And it is nothing like we could have ever imagined. It's much, much more than an album, it spans from the imminent to the remote, from the here to the furthest, casting a long, murky shadow for the listeners to follow and see where it leads them.
And at times, following "The Evil Year" in its twists and turns, feels a bit like wandering among the catacombs of the damp wine cellars in Edgar Allan Poe's tale "The Cask of Amontillado", you start to get more and more inebriated as the music becomes the molecules of the air you're breathing, but instead of ending up entombed alive like in Poe's famous tale, you proceed along a labyrinth of drum beats and strange sounds, never at your own pace, but at the album's complete mercy. There's no other choice, and when you reach the last track, it's like arriving at that secret, hidden spring that no one else has reached before.
Thanks for the surprising journey, "The Evil Year", it'll be a journey we will undertake many other times, surely it'll be always a bit different, at times creepy, at times soothing, never predictable.


PÅGÅ's "The Evil Year" is out now on Svart Records, available on coloured gatefold vinyl with lyrics and artwork booklet (ltd. to 500 copies) , as well as on digipak CD (also be available as digital release).