Mayflower Madame - New single + video out now - New album 'Insight' announced
'Paint It All in Blue' is the second taster from Norwegian band Mayflower Madame’s highly anticipated third album 'Insight', out on 1st November via Night Cult Records/ Up In Her Room/Icy Cold Records.
Following first single 'A Foretold Ecstasy', which refined their signature blend of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia into a sharper soundscape, the new offering instantly puts a spell on you with its throbbing bass lines, motorik drums and hypnotic guitars, until it opens up midway, leaving you drifting in a sea of dreamy melancholia.
The emotional intensity is heightened by frontman Trond Fagernes' deeply reverberating lyrics about addiction and escapism when love is experienced as a drug. Combining the rhythmic grooves of krautrock and post-punk with the dazzling atmospherics of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia, 'Paint It All in Blue' is a profoundly dynamic song unfolding layer by layer.
LISTEN TO 'PAINT IT ALL BLUE' HERE
The accompanying video, directed by visual artist Astrid Serck, further enhances the song's mood with a mixture of collage animations and symbolic moving imagery in the intersection of expressionism and surrealism.
WATCH 'PAINT IT ALL BLUE' VIDEOHERE
Over the past years, Mayflower Madame have gained a reputation far beyond their hometown of Oslo, Norway. Following the release of their debut album 'Observed in a Dream' in 2016, which received rave reviews and earned them tours across Europe and North America, their 2020 sophomore album 'Prepared for a Nightmare' firmly established their position as one of the continent’s leading purveyors of cinematic psych-gaze swathed in 1980s dark romanticism.
In 2022, the band returned to touring the UK and Europe, while last year it focused on writing and recording new music and releasing a Deluxe Version of Prepared for a Nightmare containing 5 new bonus tracks.
Their upcoming album has been mixed and mastered by renowned Italian engineer Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, The Vacant Lots). It will be released digitally via their label Night Cult Records (Norway), on vinyl via Up In Her Room (UK) and on CD via Icy Cold Records (France).
Mayflower Madame is Trond Fagernes (vocals, guitar, bass) and Ola J. Kyrkjeeide (drums). On studio recordings, they are joined by Kenneth Eknes (synths). "Paint It All in Blue" also features Rune Øverby (guitar).
WATCH 'A FORETOLD ECSTASY' VIDEO HERE
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR MAYFLOWER MADAME
"Mayflower Madame adorn black hearts on the sleeves of their leather jackets with a sense of pride, and so they should" Under The Radar Magazine
"The love child of post-punk and neo-psychedelia" Classic Rock Magazine
"Wildly addictive mix of post-punk, shoegaze and psychedelia. Utterly superb" Louder Than War
"Mayflower Madame makes gorgeously dissonant and urgent post-punk that seamlessly blends with shoegaze to unfurl layer upon layer of gauzy sonics over your ice-cold eardrums" CVLT Nation
"Their sneering vocals and wickedly distorted guitar riffs are pure Jesus & Mary Chain, the ominous, echo-drenched atmospherics recall Sisters of Mercy, and the overall and very palpable sense of fear and dread harken back to Faith-era Robert Smith" BlackBook
"Deeply atmospheric psychedelia" Clash
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