Very Special Things, by Kim Oxlund

Very Special Things

by Kim Oxlund

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4.	How Long Does It Last 03:18	buy track
5.	Anywhere I Go I'm Never Lonely 04:18	buy track
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7.	Very Special Things 04:09	buy track
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Since immigrating to Canada in 2010, Danish musician Kim Oxlund has kept busy composing a string of award winning film scores with fellow musician Maya Saxell, who he also released two critically acclaimed albums with in the mid 2000s as 'Said the Shark'. But in the quiet nights of 2022, Oxlund began to retreat to a more personal form of music making.

Taking inspiration from a series of tapes made by his father of German radio shows in the late 70s, he decided to re-engage with the sounds of his blurry and half-remembered youth - a time when he had no musical preconceptions. Intuitively he began to channel these older influences into new shapes; weaving elements of space age pop, kosmische, and new age over top a series of atmospheric rhythms situated somewhere between Kraftwerk, The Art of Noise, and Zoviet France.

The result is a subtle and subdued album of hypnotic, streamlined electronica that flits back and forth between a particularly Danish form of darkness and light, humor and gravitas.

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released August 6, 2023

All music by Kim Oxlund, 2022-23.
Art & Design by Lindsey Hampton.

'Dreamy, deeply cinematic synth sculptures of warmth & darkness, grooves for adventuring. A whole lot of atmosphere & mood conjured from a handful of delicate elements.' - OPTIMISTIC UNDERGROUND

'Oxlund dives deep into the recesses of foggy memories for this inspired batch of hypnagogic pop that channels the sounds of the German radio shows he grew up hearing his father listen to. Oxlund's current work scoring films is also a notable influence here, gearing the mood towards a cinematic lean that, at times, is reminescent of Air's Virgin Suicides score. There is also a mild Radiophonic vibe, with quirky and melodic synths bubbling up from the wide-lens vistas. Another must-grip release from Hotham, though this should also please fans of the hazy evocations deployed by labels like Ghost Box or Castles In Space.' - AUDIOPILE

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