- Label
- Northern Electronics
- Catalogue
- NE90
- Eancode
- No eancode
- Format
- LP
- Release Date
- WK 36, 08 Sep 2023
- Type
- world exclusive
- Stock
- Out of stock
Vallmo
Othem
Mp3s & jpegs- 01 Hold My Hand
- 02 Angels Who Dive
- 03 Poppy
- 04 Lupi
- 05 Fairytale
- 06 Link To Rise
- 07 Bite
- 08 Othem
- 09 111
- 10 Violent Tricks
- 11 Wings Out ft Varg2 Matti Bye
For her second release on Northern Electronics, Vallmo (appellation of Melina Akerman Kvie) strengthens her proficiency towards an electronic elevation with each and every track being a crevice offering kaleidoscopic gleams into a poetic narrative extracted from the slightly autotuned yet softly metallic voice. What Virgil is to Dante, the piano is to the listener: a fragmented leitmotif and a guiding cicerone into the nimbus that is "Othem". Dual in nature, the album comprises seamless transitions between divergent idioms, figuratively as well as literally. A false dichotomy conveying the opposing pairs tender and bold, distinct but evading and with a direction every so often forward as inward. "Othem" is an opus in equal parts melancholy, magic and mimesis.