Less Win Reveal Music Video for New Album Track ‘Rituals’

Experimental Danish trio Less Win have revealed a music video for ‘Rituals’, the opening track from their debut UK album, TRUST. Filmed in Denmark’s prestigious National Gallery, ‘Rituals’ arrives surrounded by a chaotic, but divine collection of plaster-casts of artwork spanning the last 2000 years as Classical Greek, Egyptian and Roman figures stand side-by-side with Renaissance religious sculpture, and more modern forms of art. 

TRUST sees Less Win in the throes of an instinctive and free-form approach to rock music, transcending the connotations and clichés that come attached to ‘post-punk’. Here, pianos sound like sledgehammers, and saxophones like wailing widows. Strings are a haunting undercurrent, while the vocal scope of Casper Morilla and Patrick Kociszewski sounds crystal clear above the trio’s treacherous atmospherics – sang just a breath away from the deranged.

TRUST was recorded fully analogue at the Black Tornado studio in Copenhagen. The result, though raw, is anything but lo-fi. Since their inception in 2011, Less Win have self-recorded all of their previous releases in the confines of rehearsal spaces, with bassist Patrick Kociszewski at the controls (a producer in his own right, having recorded Danish band Yung’s Falter LP, amongst others). But while TRUST sees Less Win shun their hardline DIY techniques in favour of a studio setting, the band chose to work backwards, maintaining a manic sense of urgency. “Trust was written and conceived as a cohesive whole. First, the studio in Copenhagen was booked and the date for recording set. Then, the songs were written and rehearsed in a frenzied two-month period over summer, directly before and right up to when recording was to commence,” they explain.

Patrick Miller

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