Indie collective New Kids shares second single ‘The World’ from upcoming album ‘Inger’

Last month, Danish band NEW KIDS released the first single ‘Antilife’ from its forthcoming third album ‘Inger’ set for a release on March 24th 2023. Today, the indie collective shares the second album single ‘The World - composer drummer and main figure Rune Lohse proclaims:

“The World is a ritual of traditional drumming and Coca Cola and prince light. Get into your body with these devices and transcend your culture.”

Also, listen to the first single ‘Antilife’ HERE

The eight songs on NEW KIDS’s new album ‘Inger’ reveal an explorative and fragmentary pop music balancing form and improvisation equally. The record reflects life’s paradoxicality and multifaceted layers of meaning in both form, substance and thematics: Ambiguity in art, mistakes in music, honesty, anarchy, pain, love, and how all things are also multiple things. Today, the album’s first single ‘Antilife’ is released - the band’s main figure Rune Lohse elaborates:

NEW KIDS stems from songwriter and musician Rune Lohse, who has been a part of Danish impro music for the last decade while contributing to bands such as Tuhaf, Horse Orchestra and Klimaforandringer. Even though Lohse is NEW KIDS’s creative basis, the band is a collective of friends, which have been playing together in different contexts prior to the formation in 2016. The same year, the debut album ‘Leonida’ was released, in 2018 came ‘Collective Fruits’ and along the way, the band played a string of shows in Denmark.

NEW KIDS was formed from the wish to create relatable pop music implementing improvisation, mistakes and unpredictability. Lohse’s songs deliver a relatively simple form, which the musicians can interpret and fill with substance depending on their individual musicality. This vision materializes as an explorative, imaginative and imminent pop music which presents itself as both avant-garde and catchy.

NEW KIDS’ new album ‘Inger’ is recorded 2020-2022 in three different Copenhagen studios and came thus into being during Covid, which dictated a different process for the band than earlier. Where the recordings used to be just a part of the creative process, the studio work now played a bigger role than usual. The material was scrutinized and examined and along the way, almost a whole album was ditched, before the album at hand assumed its final shape.

The songs on ‘Inger’(a Danish name) were not only created during Covid, but also in the midst of a life crisis with separation and longing. The prevailing theme is distress and chaos, but is also contradictory and with an awareness of all things being more than one thing at once. Similar to the music in its fragmented appearance, the lyrics also seek to embrace life’s paradoxes, opposites and differing perspectives. Thus ‘Inger’ embodies plastic logics such as nature, love, pain, story telling - descriptions of and meditation on fields in which human life unfolds, for the individual, for everyone, in time and eternally and in concrete locations, everywhere