Janis Joplin-Mercedes Benz(original) There's more music like The Bridge theme lurking in the Norwegian woods. Anyone who became hooked on Danish-Swedish crime series The Bridge knows its theme tune set a perfect mood for the gruesome, dark and grainy drama. Back in 2010, I described Hollow Talk by Danish act Choir of Young Believers as "a melancholic Arcade Fire doing the soundtrack to Wallander" (I used them as an example of a band that made beautiful music, but couldn't or wouldn't do self-promotion on social networking sites).
Seems I was just wrong about which crime series the track would eventually land in. For those who became fans of this dark, melancholic music, there's plenty more where that came from. All you have to do is go a bit further to the north-west. Where the Swedes have a pop sensibility that's been carried through the decades since Abba,and the Danes are more laid back, the Norwegians tend to produce music that isn't as accessible to outsiders on a first listen – though it doesn't stop them from topping the charts in their native country.
Sound of silence asegir. Hollow Talk by Choir of Young Believers.
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