Published: December 31, 1969 · 7:00 PM EST
Today, V>LH>LL shares a new, genre-bending track, 'Little Noises' – out everywhere now via Artoffact Records! The Swedish duo is known for fusing genres, primarily incorporating elements of Witch House and Darkwave, but leaving almost no electronic-based genre untouched. With today's track, they showcase their sound's growth and continue to redefine electronic music, coalescing elements of countless sub-genres.
On the new single, the band comments:
"'Little Noises' is a story of imagined monsters. The song starts off in an slow, intense, ritualistic mood with trap elements and towards the end explodes into dubstep infused experimental dance music. The song draws inspiration from nordic folk music and the theme of the lyrics is open to interpretation, but touches on the struggle with the inner demons of the storyteller.
In the musical process, we push through the boundaries of music styles in the hopes of broadening not just our own definition of witchhouse, but also our fans. We'd like to think of it as a journey we embark upon together, although never losing the anchor that is V>LH>LL."
The project V>LH>LL was initiated early 2012 as a creative outlet for this Swedish duo. The lyrics are often based and freely interpreted on old nordic myths, legends and gods. V>LH>LL use sagas to create stories with subtle references and criticisms to the society we live in today. A key standpoint for the band is to let the music keep evolving without losing the eerie core. The band mixes genres but has a focus on Witch House and Darkwave.
Various original tracks and remixes were released online at Soundcloud and Youtube during the first half of 2012. Then followed a couple of years of diy releases, remixes and collaborations before V?LH?LL got picked up by Artoffact Records and released their debut album “Leaning On Shadows” in November 2014 which were praised by critics and fans and earned them several top positions on album-of-the-year lists. The album was followed by the remix album “Shadow Tales” and the limited cassette and digital dark ambient EP “Shadows”.
During the following years V>LH>LL worked on their follow up album but also released the digital EPs “Vi††erS†råK” and “STENDHAL” as well as doing a lot of remixes for other artists and exclusive tracks for compilations.
In February 2018 the new V>LH>LL album “Grimoire” crawled up from the depths of the abyss. This album featured a guest contribution by Jessica Pimentel (Alekhine’s Gun and Maria Ruiz on OITNB) who plays the violin on the track “Ormens Offer”.
In 2021, V>LH>LL returned with the full length album “NEVERSLEEP” and once again pushed the boundaries of their established dark electronic sound into new territories.
