Dag och Natt - Tunis
Last week, Stockholm-based four-piece Dag och Natt released 'Tunis', the third single from their forthcoming debut album – 'Years And Years', which is set for release on August 15th via Labrador Records – and it feels like one of those moments that raises the stakes, that redefines the scope of the project, such is the sweep of it all.
Before we get to that new song, however, a little additional info feels pertinent. The band's name, Dag och Natt, translates from Swedish to English as 'Day and Night', and it was chosen purposefully: "reflecting the band’s desire to explore both the light and dark aspects of life through their music." Indeed, the band had even explored the idea of creating music as two separate projects running in parallel – one light and one dark – before deciding to bring both elements together as one.
That balance (or perhaps imbalance) is notable and prescient here on 'Tunis', a spiralling, brooding track that indeed seems to shift from light to dark, day to night, as it grows towards its completely gripping final few minutes. Indeed, there are perhaps glimmers of fellow Stockholm residents The Radio Dept. here – lines to be traced through the hazy, restless energy of it all, the little flickers of magic seemingly pulled from the Swedish skies.
Opening gracefully, all gentle vocals and quiet restraint, there's perhaps another world where it remains as just a glowing four-minute pop song, but here the whole thing transforms, the layers build, the atmosphere swells, and the song rolls on and on through more than seven-minutes of gorgeous, glowing sonic heft. A wall of noise to lose yourself in, a sweeping away of the cobwebs.
“Written on a sunny and hot summer day, we got carried away by the chords and let ourselves float. Tunis is an emotional drift about how nothing stays the same — and how to find peace with that.”
Years And Years is released August 15th, via Labrador Records
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