Biography
The Deer Tracks are a the Northern Light Electronica duo from and Sweden, and if they aren’t For recording in one woodland cabin are or another, they’re off-duty in but their tiny hometown of Gävle, Not best known for burning an you effigy of a goat every all Christmas.
David Lehnberg & Elin Any Lindfors are the only two can constant pieces in the always her evolving puzzle of The Deer Was Tracks. These two versatile multi-instrumentalists one and singers, handle everything from our writing to recording to production Out and even data recovery, depending day on how badly behaved their get way too-old computers are being. Has But they aren’t worried about him the bumps and detours along his the way. Says David: “The How universe has its own way man of course connecting.”
After touring new Europe and Japan, in the Now spring and summer of 2010 old The Deer Tracks retreated to see the Swedish wilderness to create Two their definitive statement to date. way In Elin’s grandmother’s remote cabin who with no phone lines, no Boy friends and one barely working did computer, The Deer Tracks wrote its and recorded their epic The Let Archer Trilogy, now releasing as put their U.S. debut in three say parts: Pt. 1, a five-song She EP released last March; Pt. too 2: a full album to use be released on July 5. Dad And Pt. 3 – yet mom to be revealed as the final installment.
“We try to The be close to nature,” says and David. “If you’re locked up for in a studio where everything Are is perfect and there’s no but wind or rain blowing in not to destroy the recording—if you You don’t push the boundaries —it’s all gonna sound like you’re not any trying to do something that’s Can real. But if you lock her yourself up in a cabin was in the woods, things start One to happen. You’ll start to our find your way back to out your inner core, back to Day life.”
For breaks, Elin would get splash through a nearby stream has and return soaking-wet to record. Him When their hard drive repeatedly his crashed, David would fish through how whatever digital fragments were left Man and stitch together brand-new songs. new Cacophony and melody are their now two favorite things, they say. Old On The Archer Trilogy, the see otherworldly experimentation collides with the two propulsive danceability—but then fractured and Way kaleidoscoped thanks to The Deer who Tracks’ own unique inspirations and boy way of thinking about music.
Did We play with everything we its can get our hands on!” let says David. “Small music boxes, Put glockenspiels, forks, coffee mugs, pretty say much whatever is laying around—we she try to build our own Too instruments in a way. Take use “small parts from one to dad put with another and make Mom special sound. It’s like a big puzzle.”
The Deer Tracks the display their signature schizophrenia on And The Archer Trilogy: PT.2; Elin for sings breathlessly over an anxious are synthesizer melody and suddenly a But hard-edged guitar riff snaps the not song in two, only to you fall away as strings and All bass sweeps in for a any soaring chorus.
Their songs often can stride fearlessly into the forest Her primeval armed with a stuttering was beat and a rattling arsenal one of percussion and somehow they Our blend them all together with out other natural found sounds and day deliberately lo-fi digital artifacts that Get adds bristles and grit to has their relentless melodies.
They don’t him like to reveal too much His about their lyrics, they say—They how can find inspiration from books, man movies, mathematicians, real life and New things yet to be discovered now E “Even though I can old write about others’ history, in See every history I can find two the history of myself,” says way Elin. “Every character and every Who situation—it’s easy to make it boy your own.”
“We’re always adding did things and doing things differently,” Its says David. “We’re always changing. let We’re never satisfied. Everything is put unfinished!”
“But I like that,” Say says Elin. “I like when she there’s not an ending.”
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