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How do you follow-up a record like When Saints Go Machine’s 2011 debut album, ‘Konkylie’? Lush, multifaceted and without precedent, it’s the kind stunning opening statement that it’s close to impossible to better. Luxurious textures were one of ‘Konkylie’s defining characteristics. Instead, they’ve done the opposite and applied German architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe’s famous saying: “Less is more”.
With Saints Go Machine’s new single, ‘Mannequin’, the first song from the set that will form their second album, the Danish four-piece haven't so much stripped sound back to bare bones, rather than dial down to something more subtle and more intimate. “It wasn’t something we talked about,” says Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild, the band’s frontman. “Maybe it has something to do with our last album being received as it was. When you experience people singing along and taking your songs personally you loosen up and feel like giving a little more back to people. That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. That you can be a bit more open, that it doesn’t always have to be hard to decipher.”
The lyrics remain obscure, however. Vonsild says that they’re “very personal”. He continues: “It’s always been like that with my lyrics. If you say a song is about losing what’s important to you or feeling that everything’s a mess or you’re in a dark place that’ll take something away from the song instead of giving something to it. The songs have words and they are supposed to create images that make you feel something that you can relate to, whatever it might be. That’s one of the things I really appreciate and love about music."
When Saints Go Machine: Mannequin
If ‘Mannequin’ is the start of a new direction for the band, Vonsild isn’t one hundred percent sure exactly what direction it is. “Some stuff is simpler. There are a lot less elements in some of the new material than the older songs. But still keeping the same kind of universe - strong feelings and a atmosphere that communicates emotions we all share. One thing I know is that we all agree it has to feel like an album and not just a collection of songs.”
Any way you work it, it’s an electrifying prospect.
To find out more visit their Facebook here.
With Saints Go Machine’s new single, ‘Mannequin’, the first song from the set that will form their second album, the Danish four-piece haven't so much stripped sound back to bare bones, rather than dial down to something more subtle and more intimate. “It wasn’t something we talked about,” says Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild, the band’s frontman. “Maybe it has something to do with our last album being received as it was. When you experience people singing along and taking your songs personally you loosen up and feel like giving a little more back to people. That’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot. That you can be a bit more open, that it doesn’t always have to be hard to decipher.”
The lyrics remain obscure, however. Vonsild says that they’re “very personal”. He continues: “It’s always been like that with my lyrics. If you say a song is about losing what’s important to you or feeling that everything’s a mess or you’re in a dark place that’ll take something away from the song instead of giving something to it. The songs have words and they are supposed to create images that make you feel something that you can relate to, whatever it might be. That’s one of the things I really appreciate and love about music."
When Saints Go Machine: Mannequin
If ‘Mannequin’ is the start of a new direction for the band, Vonsild isn’t one hundred percent sure exactly what direction it is. “Some stuff is simpler. There are a lot less elements in some of the new material than the older songs. But still keeping the same kind of universe - strong feelings and a atmosphere that communicates emotions we all share. One thing I know is that we all agree it has to feel like an album and not just a collection of songs.”
Any way you work it, it’s an electrifying prospect.
To find out more visit their Facebook here.
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