A duo of this capacity is not something you just come by every now and then. What this duo brings is a different angle to pop and rock music, as we know it. While the sound is mainstream it is still hard to categorize their music as Vivid Suspense constantly seek to push the boundaries of both modern pop and rock. Lyrically they always try to attack melancholy with a mysterious and not always obvious sense of humour.
The Danish duo has just finished their forthcoming debut album "Beside Myself". The album offers the listener a fresh, varying and new experience in sound. Lyrically the album deals with subjects as love, frustration, loss and self-perception. This can of course sound mundane, but it never is when served by Vivid Suspense.
The Yazoo (Yaz in the US) cult classic "Winter Kills" is the only cover track featured on the album. Originally it was made for the 2001 US Tribute to Yazoo compilation "Nobody's Diary", but the sound fit nicely into the palette of songs presented on the album. "Beside Myself" is produced by Vivid Suspense and Brian Belloni and mastered by Thomas Wind (sometimes credited as Flouvio) who also is the former musical partner of remix wizard Funkstar De Luxe .
Vivid Suspense have just finished making a video for their single "Emancipation". The video features the two Danish film stars Dejan Cukic (Nikolaj and Julie, In China They Eat Dogs) and Baard Owe (At the Faber, The Kingdom, The Kingdom II, Europa). The video was directed by film director Sohail A. Hassan (Joystick Nation) and takes place in a hospital. The video is unlike many of the videos we see today, so be prepared for something quite different… something that may even shake you to the bone.
Now, it is time for the world to get rocked in a different way.
Watch the video for Emancipation!