If you hang your ideas on the title of an album, you just might be on the wrong track, as the artist(s) involved might be leading you in the opposite direction, or are they? And then, what about the album cover? Same there.
The Norwegian duo Konradsen (Jenny Marie Sabel and Eirik Vildgren) might be playing both with the title and the cover of their latest (third) album, Hunt, Gather. While the direct interpretation of the title might lead you to some stark and straightforward heavy stuff, the cover depicting a child running around with a butterfly-catching net just might lead you in the opposite direction.
When you start listening to the album, its gentle, sometimes even soothing vibes should be confounding but the lyrics bring out what the duo is actually talking about here – you are a fully grown person, but all you have been striving for just might be out of reach (yet), or you just might be on a completely different track – you are still on the search for what it is all about, and that hunt and gathering will probably keep going on.
Sounds like complex stuff, but Sabel and Vildgren wrap it all up in some gentle and subtly complex songwriting that makes it all sound like it is worth the effort of turning it all into music, as well as keeping that search for the right path going. The guests here, who include Bruce Hornsby, Angie McMahon, Gia Margaret and Beharie, thought so too.
