A Good Year shot by Johanna Hvidtved
(Tuesday, April 7th) Copenhagen-based duo A Good Year — composed of Albert Hildebrand and Tobias Laust Hansen — announce their new album Play, set for release May 22 via Escho. Alongside the album announcement, the duo share a new single and music video for “Back of a car,” a track featured on the upcoming record. Play also includes previously released and acclaimed singles, including “YSL” featuring Horse Vision and “Dealerz” featuring Quiet Light and Late Verlane. The album features voices and contributions from Horse Vision, Tiffi M, Helena Gao, MØ, and first-time recordings by Koilwood and Suisse Air.
Emerging from Denmark’s alternative music scene, A Good Year are carving out a space distinctly their own - where cinematic electronica, ambient pop, and a shifting cast of guest vocalists converge into something that “feels as visual as it is melodic (Strand Magazine).”
Originally formed through a shared fascination with the interplay between film and sound, the project began as a visual experiment — music created in dialogue with their own filmmaking — before naturally evolving into a fully realized musical world. The duo considers Play their debut record, but it’s technically their second full-length release. In 2024 they released Sofina (Escho), a soundtrack to a self-produced film, a “psychedelic travel movie”made as a kind of exorcism after losing their mutual best friend, Søren Holm, the singer of Liss. The project was never intended to be more than catharsis, the film’s soundtrack as pure documentation, inadvertently introduced their signature language, and thus, A Good Year was born.
Play emerged without a plan or intent to make a record, growing from experiments and collaborations: moments caught, the energy of playing together, half-finished ideas, and contributions from new friends, all sent across the internet and back.
For Hansen (producer, former Liss drummer) and Hildebrand (video artist), the process began as a new way to create: “It often starts with drums and an idea for an image or video. The visuals can direct the music, and the music can inspire the visuals.” Some close friends, some brand-new acquaintances — the features and guests on Play were essential to tying the collage together. “The music became a vessel for connection, a way to reach out to people we admire, but also a way to create a social element within these sometimes introverted jams.”
Drawing on field recordings, organic elements, and a collective approach to voice, A Good Year exists in the in-between - analog and digital, composed and improvised - creating music that resists fixed genre, geography, or form. The duo explains further, "Early on we figured out the process isn’t about ownership or expertise — it’s about the pleasure of a space with no rules, where learning from each other is the only goal."
A Good Year Play Escho May 22 | 
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