Harry’s Song by Alesund: Review
Alesund inserts their heart, their soul in the most cathartic moment of music in months – Harry’s Sound. An epic 6-minute is a full-length experience maximized by a wide range of arrangements and an exquisite touch of North European folklore that stands Harry’s Song out in the new alternative music scene.
Treating music as a healing journey, Alesund really leverages that in their own path of storytelling, both by lyrics and instrumentation. The production here is very high quality, to say the least when they conduct it with extreme care, a literal venture into how sounds can manage to deliver even more than verbal parts. To make the guide to Alesund easier, their musical style is a hybrid of chameleonic alternative sounds of Florence + The Machine and London and the mystic hymn of the mythical Aurora from her All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend era. We are also obsessed with how the track escalates towards the end – the adrenaline rushes to its core, with electrifying rock elements that no one can shy away from it. And eventually, the explosion calms down, resembling the aftermath of a violent storm, with a heavenly, mythical hymn from the female vocalist of the band. This solidifies their own Nordic-inspired path musically and thematically. Not every band is brave enough to venture with an epic 6-minute track with such production values à la Harry’s Song, but Alesund proves them the opposite, and they are definitely on the right track.
Harry’s Song by Alesund is now available on different streaming platforms.
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Photo credits: Alba Torriset
Review by: Maxime Cronenberg