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Approved: Takykardia

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 6 October 2020

As origin stories go, pop trio Takykardia have a pretty good one. One day, vocalist Luna Matz walked into a McDonald’s sign, leaving her with a concussion and minor whiplash, and putting her out of action as a professional dancer for the best part of a year.

Bored in her recuperation, while her then boyfriend – musician Troels Dankert – was away, she opened up the recording software on his computer and added vocals to the latest track he’d been working on. When he returned, Dankert was so impressed that he and his musical partner David Nedergaard abandoned their existing project and immediately formed Takykardia with Matz.

The trio released their debut single in 2017, with an EP arriving the following year. Over the last few months, the single releases have ramped up again in anticipation of their debut album, ‘Better’, which is set for release on 6 Nov.

“I decided not to have any secrets on this album”, says Matz. “I was so sick of not saying things as they were or as they are to me. The timeframe of making ‘Better’ was a very turbulent, though beautiful, love relation I had with a man who was going through the hardest time of his life. I was extremely in love and very much trying to hide it so not to overwhelm or expect anything from him during his grief”.

“The songwriting very much explores this relationship and everything that came in the aftermath”, she goes on. “I’m also deeply in love with my youth and my life and scared of wasting it not living it the fullest. I want to do better, become better, love better, enjoy better! I am always sure that tomorrow will be better”.

The album’s third single – following ‘Waving’ and ‘Rewind’ – is ‘Sometimes My Best Friend Ghosts Me’. Watch the video here: