Lars Lervik – Spring. Relief (2024)
With an experimental approach to music, Norway-based musician Lars Lervik is proving to be more than pedestrian with his compositions. For over a decade, Lervik has entertained audiences with intoxicating sounds – well, at least according to Spotify. From his four-track EP Hvis Det Virkelig Var in 2015 to 2018’s En Liten Hendelse and 2023’s Be Around, Lervik is constantly evolving melding various genres for our eager ears. The latest addition to his discography is the single ‘Spring. Relief’.
Following his well-received EP Be Around, Lervik saunters in 2024 with the track ‘Spring. Relief’. Retaining his signature style of not having a distinctive sound, the experimental nature of Lervik’s music, ‘Spring. Relief’ slicks various flavours of pop bound by avant-garde obscurity. As if pasting separate songs together with brash sticking plaster, a level of dreamy pop lies alongside a classical piano with slips of psychedelic folktronica making wistful appearances throughout the track. A hazy mess of music, a confused discomfort exists; however, simultaneously, there is a harmonic unity in a soothing sense of calm.
Oscillating from bright joviality to dark vulnerability, ‘Spring. Relief’ is a symphonic cacophony with an “out there” ambience. For me, Lars Lervik’s vocals drip warmth into the single somehow drawing elements together in hopeful happiness. It is quite intriguing because this mish-mash of sound elegantly expresses the theme: the feelings of spring. Stepping from the depths of winter with its dark angst to a kaleidoscopic world of reinvention, ‘Spring. Relief’ delicately explores the core of the seasonal transition. Lervik explains:
“This song is a homage to spring here in Oslo. After many months of darkness and coldness, finally the sun is present for a longer period and the temperature is getting warmer and people hanging outside again. This winter has been hard, cold and long in Norway and ‘Spring. Relief’ is trying to express this feeling.”
Atmospheric, honest, introspective and sincere, Lars Lervik finds the theme song for springtime in ‘Spring. Relief’.
Find out more about Lars Lervik on his Facebook and Spotify.
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