Norwegian post-punk/dark romantic band Mayflower Madame released today the second single, "Paint It All In Blue", taken from the forthcoming third album entitled Insight, which will be released on 1 November via their own label Night Cult Records (Norway) in collaboration with Up In Her Room (UK) and Icy Cold Records (France).
Following the much acclaimed first single "A Foretold Ecstasy", which you can check out over HERE, the new offering instantly puts a spell on you with its throbbing bass lines, motorik drums and hypnotic guitars, while midway it all opens up and leaves you drifting in a sea of dreamy melancholia.
The emotional intensity is heightened by frontman Trond Fagernes' deeply reverberating lyrics about addiction and escapism when love is experienced as a drug. Combining the rhythmic grooves of kraut-rock and post-punk with the dazzling atmospherics of shoegaze and neo-psychedelia, "Paint It All In Blue" is a profoundly dynamic song unfolding layer by layer.
The accompanying video, directed by visual artist Astrid Serck, further enhances the mood of the song with a mixture of collage animations and symbolic video imagery in the intersection of expressionism and surrealism.
Over the past years, Mayflower Madame has gained a reputation far beyond their hometown of Oslo, Norway. They made their debut with the album Observed In A Dream in 2016, which received rave reviews and earned them tours across Europe and North America, while 2020 long-awaited sequel Prepared For A Nightmare firmly established their position as one of the continent's leading purveyors of cinematic psych-gaze swathed in 1980s post-punk and dark romanticism.
Their upcoming album Insight has been mixed and mastered by renowned Italian engineer Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, The Vacant Lots). Mayflower Madame is Trond Fagernes (vocals, guitar, bass) and Ola J. Kyrkjeeide (drums). On studio recordings, they are joined by Kenneth Eknes (synth). "Paint It All In Blue" also features contributions from Rune Overby (guitar). Link
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