”I Læ For Solvinden” is the second single from the upcoming album Sølvhjerneskaller from danish space-rock band Måneskjold. The album will be out on vinyl/cassette/cd April 16th Through Kommun2, SPA, Virkelighedsfjern and Weird Beard Records.
Pre-order:
Denmark: https://maneskjold.bandcamp.com/album/s-lvhjerneskaller
Greece: https://www.soundeffect-records.gr/m%C3%A5neskjold-2
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Sølvhjerneskaller (The Silver Brain Shells) is the second album from Måneskjold
following the critically acclaimed Kometen Kommer from 2016. The record is heavily
inspired by the space rock sounds that characterized the first album but has a bigger
emphasis on the heavier stoner rock sound of the band. Ranging from acoustic
psych rock over droning, hypnotic jams to almost prog rock sounding epics,
Sølvhjerneskaller is a far more varied and more mature album than its predecessor.
Måneskjold pays more attention to song writing while spending a little less time on
jamming. The result is a more focused album firmly rooted in the old sound of the
band but with plenty of new ideas realized throughout.
Sølvhjerneskaller follows two narratives that lead the way through side A and B
respectively. Both deal with the theme of destruction and rebirth. Side A follows the
legend of the silver brain shells: a story of inner turmoil presented as an intergalactic
odyssey of the search for the missing parts of our narrator. From the harvesting of
raw materials on faraway planets and back to the forests of planet earth the search
seems to be never ending. Side B tells the story of Primus: a man mortally wounded by
the destruction of earth through natural catastrophes, who is reawakened onboard a
spaceship. Upon reawakening he realizes that his body and consciousness is
beginning to merge with the spacecraft.
These two storylines have inspired the gatefold cover where a comic reinterprets the
narrative of the songs and turns them into surrealist strips. The comic strips were
made by NMAAR while the front was made by Michael Bech Hussein.