Eivør Shares New Track ‘Surrender’ – Listen Here + New Video “In My Shoes”
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For lovers of Depeche Mode, Bjork and dark ethereal beats.
Copenhagen-based, Faroese talent Eivør is sharing ‘Surrender’, the latest track to emerge from her forthcoming new album, Slør, out May 26 2017 through A&G Records Ltd / Absolute Label Services. With the London date of Eivør’s UK headline tour through June already sold out, a London St Pancras Old Church show is now on sale for May 31 2017.
Already a well-known recording artist of over 16 years’ prolific output in her native Scandinavia, Eivør has worked across a disparate clutch of collaborative projects since releasing her debut solo album aged just 16. Besides scoring the new series of blockbusting BBC/Netflix flagship The Last Kingdom (airing now) with Ivor Novello nominee John Lunn (Downton Abbey, Waking The Dead), Eivør’s music has also been synced on Scorsese’s Silence, alongside trailers for Game Of Thrones and Deep Water Horizon (Mark Wahlberg). Eivør has also collaborated on the trailer soundtrack for Metal Gear Survive, and last year appeared at Los Angeles’ huge E3 gaming event, where she performed via live stream to a global audience of 50 million at the launch for Playstation’s God Of War.
Slør is – rather incredibly – Eivør’s first commercial release here in the UK. It’s one that has been over 2 years in the making- with Slør actually an English-translated re-imagining of her Faroese-sung 2015 album release of the same title. Eivør originally wrote the Faroese version of Slør – which translates as ‘veils’ or ‘blurriness’ – having returned to her childhood home in the remote Scandinavian archipelago of The Faroe Islands. Says Eivør; “Slør is very much about my roots- I just really wanted to go home, be back in the old environment. There was something exhilarating about being back at the heart of where I came from as a person and an artist, all the while realising how many things inside me had changed.”
Working closely with her producer Tróndur Bogason, Eivør has reconciled the Faroes’ remote majesty with the thoroughly modern world of her dark, intelligent electronica; “The landscape I grew up with, it seemed so natural to turn into an electronic landscape, because it has this electric sound in it, you know. All these wild, crazy sounds- stormy, winds, and the ocean.” The fruits of the meticulous 8 month period of transcribing the album into English are borne out in spades- teeming with darkly hooky pop, you sense Slør will ensure Eivør doesn’t remain a veiled presence in these parts for much longer.
Listen to ‘Surrender’ – now available as a free download upon pre-order of Slør:
Eivør – who recently made her ‘Later With Jools Holland’ debut and will release new album ‘Slør’ on May 26 – has made this rather beautiful clip for her new track ‘In My Shoes’ with Danish performance artist and drag queen Dennis Agerblad.
Watch/share ‘In My Shoes’:
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November Live Shows
27 November BRISTOL Fleece
28 November LONDON Bush Hall
29 November MANCHESTER Night & Day
Previously Announced
31 May LONDON St Pancras Old Church SOLD OUT
1 June BRISTOL The Louisiana SOLD OUT
2 June LONDON The Islington SOLD OUT
3 June MANCHESTER The Castle Hotel SOLD OUT
4 June GLASGOW Oran Mor
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