New single for Mayflower Madame

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 2020s 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 dark romanticism.

The covid-19 pandemic hit hard just after their sophomore release, which made the title even more fitting than expected, but in 2022 Mayflower Madame finally returned to the European club stages again with mini-tours in the UK, France and Eastern Europe. Last year the band focused on writing and recording new music while also releasing a Deluxe Version of Prepared for a Nightmare containing 5 new bonus tracks.

Their upcoming album has been mixed and mastered by renowned Italian engineer Maurizio Baggio (The Soft Moon, Boy Harsher, The Vacant Lots). The album is due for release in October (final date and title to be announced later) with more singles to be launched in the meantime.

Mayflower Madame is Trond Fagernes (vocals, guitar, bass) and Ola J. Kyrkjeeide (drums).

On studio recordings they are joined by Kenneth Eknes (synth) and for live performances additional musicians are brought in to form a full band.

“Paint It All in Blue” is the second taster Mayflower Madame’s third album.

Following the much acclaimed first single “A Foretold Ecstasy”, 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.

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