Spurv Releasing "Skarntyde" Album

On May 11th, Norwegian instrumental outfit Spurv will drop debut album "Skarntyde" in collaboration with No Forevers Records.

Three years after the EP "Blader som faller til jorden og blir til nye trær," the band has composed a new album consisting of four beautiful, massive and heavy tracks. Spurv comments:

"The album was written and recorded during the past two-three years after the previous EP of 2012. We have attempted to challenge our own compositional skills, especially when it came to the song structures and arrangements. The album features music that is more heavy, massive and intense than before, while still focusing on fragile and beautiful melodies. Four songs in 45 minutes isn’t the average everyday radio music, but we think that it should be available listening for many, regardless to whether they have listened to instrumental- and postrock/metal before, or not.

"‘Skarntyde’ is an ambitious album, with complex structures, long melodies and dense polyphonic textures. With three guitars in front, alongside drums, bass, violin and cello, the band creates thought-provoking and emotive music.

"Music is incredibly important and a part of our cultures which should not simply be wasted to simple entertainment, but should also be allowed to deal with serious and sincere issues. If we are to say that the album is about anything, it is about life and death, about man and his relation to the world, about the fragility of nature in the face of destruction, and about the absolute nothingness upon which the abyss we call our world is constructed."

The release gig will take place at Internasjonalen in Oslo, Norway on May 21st. Check out a track off the release below.