Photo by: Hugo Jozwicki
We have said it often enough, that Scandinavian pop acts can count themselves amongst some of the most tangibly revered music giving nations in the business.
What is most noticeable above all else, even though mainstream pop is a highly prized commodity which has always come through on a steady stream of chart-breaking momentum. The creative inventiveness of all the Scandi’s in pop who choose to enter into it, is second to none.
The latest electronically engaged act to spring up from out of the coolest kingdom of pop are Nichlas, Viktor and Maríe Louise, three Danes who come together to form distinctively observed left-of-field playing trio Noréll.
There is everything so out-of-the-ball-park delicious with all things shaped Noréll, their experimentally crafted track “Howl”, actually shows more than a passing resemblance to the alternatively served offerings that we have found with Swedish exports For BDK and NONONO, that went before them.
Aside from Nichlas and Viktor’s niftiness with the pounding, beat wielding electronics and production, vocalist Marie Louise, brings onside that touch of glacially defined distinctiveness in her ethereally entrenched voice and rousing capabilities.
It will not perhaps come as a surprise to learn, especially to those who follow Danish pop with a passion, that hot concern in Danish alt-pop Kill J, who are label mates to Noréll have had a hand in on this assisting with co-write duties.
Needless to say in summing up, Noréll score high on all accounts of experimental creativity, emotive lyricism and overall engagement to burn some serious interest with their illuminatory captured and sonically formed alchemy.