Danish indie-electronic artist Trentemøller has shared a haunting new video for Foggy Figures. The song follows the release of his first album in three years, ‘Obverse,’ which was released last month via his own label imprint In My Room. Anders Trentemøller explains, “I shot the visuals for Foggy Figures while staying in the Swedish woods with my girlfriend last autumn. One day we woke up to this foggy landscape, it was magical and I right away started shooting on my phone. I really feel the walk in the dark and foggy forest captured the vibe in the song.” Watch the video clip via YouTube below.
You can also listen to ‘Obverse‘ if you want to hear the whole album.
This video follows singles Blue September (ft. Lisbet Fritze), Try A Little (ft. Warpaint’s jennylee) and In The Garden (ft. Lina Tullgren). Anders Trentemøller personally created the accompanying music video for these just as he did for Sleeper from the album.
Trentemøller has always worked with strong female singers, including Savages’ Jehnny Beth, Low’s Mimi Parker, Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino and Marie Fisker. This new album features the voices of Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Warpaint’s Jenny Lee Lindberg (jennylee), Lina Tullgren and Lisbet Fritze, as well.
Initially conceived as an instrumental album, ‘Obverse’ soon took on a life of its own with these collaborations. Embodying a shoegaze, dream pop, synth-based soundscape enriched by German Kosmische/Motorik experimentalist spirit, ‘Obverse’ is in its own genre. Trentemøller continues to address familiar themes of light and dark, turbulence and serenity, piercing chill and comforting warmth, inspired by the antipodal elements of his Nordic home environment. These complementary contrasts inherent in the album title also show up in the short films Trentemøller made for the album and artwork by Jesse Draxler.
“I have always worked with contrasts in my music and in my sound. It’s in the subtle clashes of feelings and tonal contradictions that I often find pure inspiration,” Anders said. “Obverse was always going to be about exploring the possibilities in my studio, with no consideration of how it could be performed on a stage, and it was completely liberating.”
In 2006, following a run of EPs, Trentemøller released his groundbreaking debut full-length, ‘The Last Resort’. Topping several end-of-year lists, this milestone of Electronica exposed his music to a far wider audience. The three studio albums that followed, ‘Into The Great Wide Yonder’ (2010), ‘Lost’ (2013), and ‘Fixion’ (2016), came out on his own label imprint, In My Room. Anders has also recently remixed tracks from Savages, A Place To Bury Strangers, Soft Moon, and UNKLE, adding to his long list of musical endeavors.
