FOREVER STILL Release Second Studio Album ‘Breathe In Colours’
March 29th, 2019
 |
|
Copenhagen, Denmark-based rock group Forever Still issued second full-length studio album Breathe In Colours on March 29th, 2019 through Nuclear Blast Records.
As was the case with inaugural effort Tied Down, vocalist Maja Shining and multi-instrumentalist Mikkel Haastrup worked together closely during the songwriting process. Maja’s lyrics are still as personal as they used to be, however, for Breathe In Colours the band decided to work with a futuristic and dystopian theme, as she explained: “Instead of looking in, we turned our focus to the world and saw it in a state of change. It somehow reminded us of the dystopian cyberpunk future we’d seen in books and movies when we were kids, where megacorporations own our governments, the world is on the verge of ecological collapse and humanity is fleeing into cyberspace building walls around themselves and closing their eyes to the horrors of the real world. This, and the fact that two of the most influential cyberpunk works of all time, Blade Runner and Akira, are set in 2019, is what gave us the initial idea for the album and its more electronic and raw sound.”
The cover artwork was once again designed by Maja Shining. “At first glance the cover art appears quite dark and gloomy, but in reality it’s bursting with colour,” she stated. “Just like the real world, sometimes we just have to look really closely to actually see it. The many numbers behind me represent all the colours in the world in binary code – more commonly known as ‘computer language’ – and is at the same time a reference to the world becoming so digital and people escaping into their computers to find colours instead of living in the real world and finding them there.”
The track listing is as follows:
|
|
01. ‘Rew1nd’
02. ‘Fight!’
03. ‘Breathe In Colours’
04. ‘Is It Gone?’
05. ‘Survive’
06. ‘Do Your Worst’
07. ‘Pieces’
08. ‘Rising Over You’
09. ‘Say Your Goodbyes’
10. ‘Embrace The Tide’
11. ‘Is It Gone? (Acoustic Version)’ (bonus track)
12. ‘Perfect Day’ (Lou Reed cover, bonus track)
Forever Still’s recording line-up was as follows:
Maja Shining (vocals and keyboards)
Mikkel Haastrup (guitar, bass and keyboards)
Rune Frisch (drums)
Music videos were filmed for the title track, the songs ‘Rew1nd’, ‘Is It Gone?’ and ‘Pieces’, and the band’s cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Day’. In addition, official rehearsal session videos were released for ‘Rew1nd’ and ‘Say Your Goodbyes’. All seven clips can be viewed below.
Debut studio record Tied Down was independently released in January 2016, and subsequently reissued in October 2016 via Nuclear Blast.
