For Those I Love

Of the song, For Those I Love says: “I wrote ‘Top Scheme’ to directly social alienation of the working class day. At its core, the forthcoming album pays tribute to Dave’s best friend and former bandmate, Paul Curran, who passed away in 2018. Following Paul’s tragic death, Dave locked himself away in his home studio for months, ultimately recording over 76 songs that would eventually be condensed down to form the basis of his debut album. The result is an incredibly beautiful, raw and uncompromising 9-track project addressing grief and catharsis, an important record that could only emerge from an entirely honest place.

The first single from that album, “I Have A Love,” followed closely after the release of mix, Into A World That Doesn’t Understand It, Unless You’re From It, which Those I Love by Faolán Carey For showcased unreleased tracks, ideas and demos that didn’t

FOR THOSE I LOVE SHARES fit onto the album and sold out of its limited tape run in only hours.

NEW SONG AND VIDEO The self-titled debut “For Those I Love fights for the spit in the face of the state, the banks, will arrive early next year on underdog… raw and uncompromising and those that continue to socially September Recordings. electronic music that taps into both cripple the less fortunate without ever deeply personal trauma and wider looking at the world we have been forced Listen to and watch “Top Scheme” societal ills for influence” to live and grow within. It sits within a above and stay tuned for more from For - The FADER wider group of songs that look at the Those I Love coming soon. “Reminiscent of The Streets’ night and how that continues to bus poetry” haunt us as we grow older.” - The Guardian Dave first began work on Irish singer-songwriter, multi- the project as a chance to write instrumentalist, and visual artist For frankly about the struggles he Those I Love, born David Balfe, shares a and his friends faced while new song and video. Self-directed by growing up in north Dublin. Balfe, “Top Scheme” is a powerful and Anecdotally and otherwise, poignant visual essay that uninhibitedly For Those I Love documents tackles various social issues in Ireland, the harsh realities of a daily such as sexism, classism, and the prison life up against it, and holds a industrial complex. The song follows For mirror up to the clear disparity Those I Love’s debut single “I Have A between a working class Love,” which also arrived alongside a upbringing and the lack of moving, self-directed video. opportunity that remains to this album from For Those I Love 48 Rock and Blues International • November 2020

Himmelrum New LP DØD & ENSOMHED Album Out Now Via The Big Oil Recording Company/Joyful Noise Recording

“the Danish experimental dream pop band Himmelrum create a narrative of exquisite isolation, punctuated by the enveloping forces of the natural environment” - Louder Than War from Copenhagen, Denmark, who play Copenhagen-based shoegaze quartet colorful, ecstatic and glitchy rock music. Himmelrum are premiering their album Vand, They let their songs develop and envelop, and Død & Ensomhed via Louder Than War. In take the time they need to unfold their songs. an exclusive with the band, Louder Than War At the same time they put melody front and describes how the album was mostly written center; everything stands in sharp relief and on the small island of Sejerø, enveloped the core of their songs is always clear. by the sea, “the songs that arise out of Stylistically they can be described as a their oceanside isolation are strikingly pictorial kind of music painted using postunnerving works that sound like the rock, shoegaze and krautrock as their palette. image of a salted night sky, interrupted Their forthcoming album, Vand, død & by streaks of indigo light.” Such ensomhed, sees the band using vocal elemental and synesthetic motifs come melodies for the first time. With roots in the through on the album, creating a striking Danish DIY-scene and improvisation, and ethereal sound, the title of the album over the course of two self-released albums translating to Water, Death, and Solitude. (in 2017 and 2018) and numerous concerts

Vand, Død & Ensomhed sees the band around Europe, they’ve made a name for using vocals for the first time in themselves in the Danish musical landscape, recordings, using the voice as an in particular in the creative environment improvisational instrument. around the off-kilter festival Honeyland and the independent label The Big Oil Recording Vand, Død & Ensomhed is out Company (Tettix Hexer, Excelsior, Atusji).

October 23rd on The Big Oil Recording They have recently signed to Joyful Noise

Company and Joyful Noise. Recordings (Deerhoof, No Joy, Tropical Fuck Storm) for their first ever US release. Himmelrum are a young quartet November 2020 • Rock and Blues International 49