Blue Skies:
Lead track from Canicular Days,
Debut full-length from Norway's Dråpe
Norwegian
quintet Dråpe, purveyors of soaring, expansive dreampop, celebrated the release
on April 19th of their debut full-length, Canicular Days. The album has been
issued digitally and on 12” vinyl by Norwegian independent Riot Factory.
Treat yourself to the surging melancholy of the opening track, Blue Skies:
The second
single to be released from Canicular Days is Memories, the album’s sixth track.
Memories is backed on 7” with When It’s Cold Outside, a track that doesn’t
appear on Canicular Days. The initially very trippy video for When It’s Cold
Outside shows the band recording and on the road, and features an exotic
paw-waving oriental cat sculpture, a vintage Fostex 4-track cassette recorder,
and lots of effects pedals:
Tangent time!
“Dråpe” is the Norwegian word for “drop.” The album title phrase “canicular
days” is synonymous with “dog days” and denotes the hottest period of the
summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the stretch from early July to early
September.
Oslo record
store/distributor Tiger ships both Blue Skies and Canicular Days internationally. You can sample all of the tracks on Canicular Days at Wimp.
Dråpe’sSoundcloud page a
feast of delights that features the entirety of their 2011 self-titled EP.
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