KITE Release ‘Losing b/w Glassy Eyes’ on Dais Records
Watch the music video for “Losing” feat. Anna von Hausswolff and Henric de la Cour. // The two-song seven inch is out now.
Collage by: Johan Erkenvogue
"showcasing their unique style and solidifying their place among the greats internationally" - Post-Punk
Swedish synth-pop phenomenon KITE’s new seven inch— Losing b/w Glassy Eyes— is out today via Dais Records. The two-song release finds the duo of Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Hutchinson Berg swinging for new heights of romantic desolation and baroque grandeur.
The record's A-side, "Losing," arrives today with a dreamy new music video. The song, which features Swedish dark music icons Anna von Hausswolff and Henric de la Cour, has crystalline vocals that are electrifying and otherwordly, and instrumentals that are breathtaking and incredibly gorgeous. Stately piano and anguished voice reverberate in a vaulted hall, before gradually building into a widescreen anthem of synths, drums, and soaring vocals decrying the steady deadening of life and love: “It’s deadly quiet in your old heart / Are you there? / I see dark skies on the rise / And daylight shows no remorse / And I realize it is my life / But It’s losing all meaning.” KITE comments on the track, "It’s a song about feeling translucent. Like a ghost of yourself. Everything that used to fill your dreams with colour is now banal and meaningless."
The album’s b-side, “Glassy Eyes,” showcases KITE mastery of somber, sweeping balladry. Hushed church organ elevates and anchors Stenemo’s devastated confessional, swaying between resilience and defeat. The band describes the song as a reckoning with “the privileged and existential anxiety of drifting through life dispassionately,” contrasted with “the yearning to connect profoundly with others and a desire for experiences that stir the soul before facing one’s final moments." Like a hymn, the emotion thickens as it deepens, approaching both darkness and divinity: “Deep as Igo, nothing to find / Oh catatonia, I won’t cry / Nothing can grow, everything dies / Behind my glassy eyes.”
The digital version of Losing b/w Glassy Eyes also includes a raw and rousing live version of “Glassy Eyes” performed at KITE’s triumphant 2023 homecoming show at Dalhalla, the legendary limestone-quarry-turned-open-air-theater in Dalarna, Sweden. The venue’s dramatic acoustics heighten the song’sspatial elegance, further fusing its beauty and tragedy into a forlorn, forsaken eternity.
Order Losing b/w Glassy Eyes here and look for more news from KITE soon.
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