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CMU Approved
Approved: Choir Of Young Believers
By Marc Samuels | Published on Wednesday 11 April 2012
Choir Of Young Believers are a Danish indie group who garnered much praise in their homeland and beyond for their bold debut album ‘This Is For The White In Your Eyes’.
‘Rhine Gold’, its follow up, should continue this upwards trajectory. Singer and songwriter Jannis Noya Makrigiannis has a beautifully crystalline voice, but the backdrop to his icy purr is equally beguiling, with taut melodies and an evocative atmosphere that make ‘Sedated’, the lead track from ‘Rhine Gold’, redolent of a kind of tripped out, minimalist Delays.
In fact, it’s hard to pinpoint exact reference points, given the scope of the music on offer; with its spindly guitars, subtle dub-inflections and traces of folk and avant-garde experimentalism, it’s also like listening to a melancholy Scandinavian version of The Shadows produced by Andy Weatherall, or something.
‘Rhine Gold’ is out now on Ghostly International and you can listen to ‘Sedated’ here:
