Taste Test: Ben Lorentzen shivers from the past on ‘All Knives Out’
The singer-songwriter remembers his past as a social worker for his new noir song.
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Social workers devote their whole lives to enacting change on the most personal of levels. It’s a thankless job that requires determination and grit and a steady hand to always be the founding rock. Shape-shifting between piano-pop and noir, Norwegian singer-songwriter Ben Lorentzen revisits troubled youth of his past and the ghosts that torment him. “All Knives Out” is the smoke curling at the end of a lipstick-stained cigarette; it’s the ice slowly melting in a tumbler of bourbon; it’s the sun lingering on the earth’s edge just long enough for the last ray to pierce your heart. “If I could scream and shout…all knives out,” he sings, heart aching for some peace for the souls that only can wander the earth. He pulls from such misery for a performance that could very well spark a revolution in the social work system.
“All Knives Out” is lifted from his forthcoming new EP, King of Bitter Sorrow, out later this year.
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