Description
Tracklisting
Lobster Coda
Daze Gold feat. School of X
Be This Way feat. Nanna
Saka
Heart Spell
Koddi
White Burn
Gumbri feat. Damon Albarn
Icelandic indie-pop songwriter Kaktus Einarsson will release his
second album ‘Lobster Coda’ on October 25th. Amidst a collection
of lush, electronic earworms, Kaktus has penned an honest
account of his recovery from a sudden functional neurological
disorder (FND) that required him to relearn how to use his motor
functions, while also performing his duties as a new father.
“A revelatory live experience, Kaktus Einarrson wields the kind of swagger and
attitude all too uncommon in this kind of music” Stereogum
“Breathtaking and unpredictable, imaginative and stunningly beautiful. Just like
his native Iceland” Louder Than War
“With a tonal palette halfway between the infectious synth-pop of Orchestral
Manoeuvres In The Dark and the husky tonality of smoothly understated
neo-soul” Gigwise
‘Lobster Coda’ incorporates dreamy, glistening synth-pop and melancholic
ambience, created through layers of atmospheric keys, percussion, and
groove-laden funk bass. Kaktus details his journey following a stress-induced
nonepileptic seizure that halted his brain’s ability to communicate with the rest of
his body, resulting in losing control of his legs, arms and causing involuntary
facial tics. Crucially, he spent months on a course of physical therapy while also
trying to care for his children and his partner, that by his own admission he then
needed to reconnect with. With an occasionally brutal candour, Kaktus’s new
album is about taking the time to reflect and recognise changes that need to be
made, to listen to your body, and to trust the process no matter how long it
might take.
Album standout ‘Be This Way’ merges the darker post-punk of his previous
Fufanu material with glacial pop and additional vocals from Nanna, of the
Icelandic band Of Monsters And Men.
‘Gumbri’ features long-time friend and collaborator Damon Albarn. The
Blur/Gorillaz frontman and Kaktus have known each other for many years, Kaktus
played trumpet on ‘Stop The Dams’ at age 15, and shortly after he was flown to
London to work on Damon’s debut solo album ‘Everyday Robots’, which they then
toured together. Kaktus also engineered ‘Maison Des Jeunes’ for the Africa
Express project that Albarn launched.
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