Raging Lines (Sondre Thomassen Thorvik) is a postgraduate music student in Oslo with a background in production but now focused more academically on musicology (the academic study of music), whom we featured in December last year; now with a new song, ‘Everything’.
I mentioned last time that he has a unique musical persona about him and it is even more evident in this song.
While he has previously been mentioned in the company of the likes of Depeche Mode, Joy Division and Massive Attack, ‘Everything’ descends to a deeper level still, and I don’t just mean his baritone singing voice which could easily do the voiceover for War of the Worlds.
It is a dark and mysterious creation, lying, as best I can judge, somewhere between metal, grunge and A-ha on 33rpm with occasional glimpses of Bryan Ferry and Gary Numan.
Mean, moody and magnificent, it’s the music of the dark back alley (are there any of those in Oslo, I haven’t seen them?) the furtive deal, the secret sign with the fingers, the plain brown envelope, the hurried glance of recognition in the shadows of Berghain, the escape plan scribbled on the back of a cigarette packet.
A scenario in which it is simply a case of ‘Everything’ or nothing.
And if that doesn’t get you checking it out, nothing will!
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raginglines/
