Knægt - Tragisk komedie (2021)

Led by the "anti-frontman" (and trumpeter) Malte Nordtorp Pedersen, Knægt is a project that sounds like something you know but adds some flavour to it. The new and, as it seems, debut album is an EP called Tragisk komedie with its heavily theatrical theme (and cover art).

When I first heard this album I was sure it was some new material from Efterklang, one of the best modern Danish music makers out there. And it has to be considered as a huge compliment. Perhaps it's the Danish language, something we are not very accustomed to in music. Perhaps it's Pedersen's distinct voice's colour that is somehow similar to what Casper Clausen sounds like. But most likely it's these art rock and slowcore vibes that bring a lot of intimacy and theatre-like approach to emotions and feelings, a unique sound that not many projects go with these days.

This atmosphere here goes very smoothly from the very beginning in the slow and beautiful Lysende Flammer, a song that sets the jazzy and artsy ballad-esque tone for the next couple of tracks with some mellower, dream pop-like fragments in my favourite track here Statistik. Something else starts to happen in Nu Går Det Godt Igen, in which the theatre sound gets even more noticeable with the quiet vocals sounding like a monolouge on stage while the finish in Regiones Rovfugl brings on a real orchestral crescendo. In every part of the album, the music sounds like a soundtrack for a play and it's super easy to imagine the artists on stage (with a prop motorcycle next to them).

Tragisk komedie costs whatever you want to pay.

Check: Statistik

Country: Denmark

Genre: slowcore art rock

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