Taste Test: Simen Mitlid fades into ‘Reality Tsars’
The Norwegian folk singer-songwriter blurs the genre lines with an astounding new song.
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Grey matter ever in orbit, we eventually get caught in each other’s webs. Sticky, silky threads woven in mid-air delicately balance, and sometimes, we make much more of it than we should. Norwegian folk singer-songwriter Simen Mitlid witnesses his own perceptions become mangled and blurred, as he seeks out to become a star of someone else’s story. On “Reality Tsars,” his voice echoes off each silvering sliver, and the gentle jangle of acoustic guitar casts a long, grey shadow across the world around him. Percussion palpitates as a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, and his blissfully heaven-sent vocal cords set the astoundingly plaintive state: “I am on the picture,” he sings. He swiftly falls way, and his form crumbles into an oceanic soundscape, leaving the listener heaving yet breathless.
“Reality Tsars” samples his brand new album, Neutral, out everywhere now.
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