Coming from the Faroe Islands, AGGRASOPPAR is an avant-garde musical endeavour that breaks musical expectations with their alternative rap sound with bags of punk energy. Featuring the talents of Dania O. Tausen, Eyðfinn Bogason Lamhauge and Trygvi Danielsen, this trio conjures a sense of anarchic creativity to craft sonic experiences that range from harsh bursts of noise to melodic country stylings.
AGGRASOPPAR is an outfit that throws out the rulebook and instead, pulls their sonic output from a chasm of raucous sonic vibrations, resulting in musical experiences that challenges and energises in equal measure. With a reputation for visceral live performances, AGGRASOPPAR has played stages at events like Icelandic Airwaves, Reeperbahn Festival, SPOT Festival in Aarhus, Denmark and The Great Escape in Brighton, UK.
Their twenty-one-track debut record, æðrasoppar, dropped on Christmas Eve in 2020 and revealed the sheer depth of their sonic exploration. Subsequent releases, including multiple singles and the EP døgurðaslang, further demonstrated the band’s constantly evolving sound.
Now, as they gear up to release with upcoming new EP titled MIDNÁTTARSANG later this month via the Tutl Records imprint, they bring us their latest single with “OMMACHEPANNEKÆK,” which translates as ‘Grandma Makes Pancakes.’
Kicking off the track with eerie instrumental pulses, cut with the haunting sound of whispered vocalisations, the downtempo punch of the beat ushers in the rapped vocal lines. Taking turns on the mic, the band lays down slick rapped flows in between the distant echoes of belted vocal elements.
With an atmospheric arrangement of lo-fi synth tones, peppered with the zap of stuttered textures and contrasting warmth of brass tones, the steady kick of the beat drives the sound as the expressive vocals deliver increasingly rhythmic shots throughout. It’s yet another display from this outfit that’s crafting music unlike anything else, venturing to the fringes of avant-garde pop music and stepping into the shadowy expanse where no artist has gone before.
Commenting on their new single, the band offers, “It’s a song about the pancakes that take shape by the armpits of your grey vintage t-shirt when you’re trying to get everything ready for the picky dinner guests and their co-worker Anne who you don’t actually like. It’s the nightmare when you’re preparing dinner for the party, but the salad is a singing octopus, and the guests arrive five hours too early with 200 friends, while your house is somehow simultaneously your childhood home and your grandmother’s place. It’s a song about the maternal love in the taste of grandma’s pancakes. Nobody makes ’em like grandma.”
Listen to OMMACHEPANNEKÆK below
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