Taste Test: Benedikt compare near-death moments to ‘Paper Mâché’

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Have you ever seen your life flash before your eyes?! You go out for coffee, step into what you suspect to be a quiet neighborhood street and a steel black Oldsmobile comes barreling down the avenue. You wince for the impact, but you’re luckily inches out of harm’s way. And that’s how it goes. Norway’s nine-piece indie-folk troupe Benedikt embraces such near-death encounters on their new single “Paper Mâché,” a stringy musing on life’s fleeting nature. “It feels as if I’ll drown / Water up to my knees / I ignore your silly frown / And the panic in between your headspace,” the words are delicately scrawled on the wind, lifting up into the flower-kissed airstream. With banjo-infused production, which aims to puncture the otherwise tense lyrical atmosphere, the song highlights the beauty that can be retrieved from such close-cutting collapses.

“Paper Mâché” is the band’s second single leading into a brand new album, out later this year.

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