Danish hardcore trio Omsorg releases first single from new EP 'Echoes' and kicks off UK tour

Danish hardcore trio OMSORG has set the release of their new EP ‘Echoes’ for May 17th 2024 via Puffin Artlab, thus following up on their debut album ‘Moments, Movements’ from 2023. Today, the band shares the EP’s first single ‘Resurgence’ while kicking of their UK-tour in London tonight. The UK dates are followed by three Norwegian dates and in addition, the band has just been announced for the legendary Roskilde Festival in Denmark in July.

OMSORG Live 2024:

• 29.03 - New Cross Inn, London (UK)
• 30.03 - The Black Bull, Gateshead (UK)
• 31.03 - Manchester Punk Fest (UK)
• 01.04 - Art Antics, Dundee (UK)
• 02.04 - Guac N'Roll Vegan Kitchen, Liverpool (UK)
• 18.04 - Vaktbua, Kristianssand (NO)
• 19.04 - Folken (Grottene). Stavanger (NO)
• 20.04 - Vaterland, Oslo (NO)
• 29.06-02.07 - Roskilde Festival (DK)

On the new EP 'Echoes’, Omsorg balances savagery and vulnerability through four songs that deliver highly personal songwriting driven by social indignation, a will to live, and an insistence on love and friendship despite existential suffering, self-destructiveness, and structural pressure.

Formed in Aalborg during the lockdown in 2020, guitarist/vocalist Jan Fenger Christensen and bassist/vocalist Trong Minh Le, old friends from the skateboarding scene in the small North Jutland town of Hjørring, joined forces with drummer Mads Skannerup Hansen. Shortly after their formation, they recorded two songs, that garnered attention and led to the first shows, a DK tour with Demersal, and later a two-week Europe tour with the same band.

In 2022, Omsorg recorded their debut album with producer Jacob Bredahl (Lifesick, Eyes), and when 'Moments, Movements' was released in 2023, it resonated in the scene with its contemporary and lyrically gripping emotional hardcore. Following the release, a series of well-attended DK shows followed, where the band truly connected with the Danish audience, including supporting Zeal & Ardor, performances at When CopenHell Freezes Over and SPOT METAL, as well as an EU/UK tour with Hoi-Poi solidifying the band as an important new name on the European punk/HC scene.

In January 2024, Omsorg returned to the studio with Jacob Bredahl, this time to record the four tracks that make up the new EP 'Echoes'. Like the debut album, the new songs were recorded live, giving the EP a unique vitality and dynamism. The new songs are unmistakably Omsorg with their warm, punchy sound and vibrant interplay, but the EP also shows the band's intention to step out of its comfort zone and expand with experiments in sound and production, especially in vocals and melody.

The EP's title 'Echoes' and the themes of the songs build on the debut album 'Moments, Movements' and its underlying idea that life consists of moments and movements. With 'Echoes,' it is added that life also consists of repetitions - and not always for the better if these are repetitions of destructive patterns, despite all good intentions.