Little Children’s musical language obviously builds on love of music with intense emotional charge, but their expression is entirely their own. Their soundscapes are sometimes desolate and sparce, sometimes impalpable and intangible as air; other moments are hazy with an occasional burst of force of conviction. You want references? Try some Nick Drake and Bon Iver, pour one part Midlake, add the dazed desert dusk anthems of The War On Drugs, Dandy Warhols or Kurt Vile, and you’re still only half way there. Lutti’s personal songwriting, sense of melody and unparalleled voice has a rare cinematic quality that earned the band soundtrack contributions to international TV-series such as Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, Arrow och The Originals.
Travelling Through Darkness, Little Children’s glorious breakout EP, builds on the majesty and melancholy of the band’s musical history, and tells of the leaving and of the longing that connects as much with Smalltown, Sweden as the tribulations of complex affection. Travelling Through Darkness is a cathartic collection of songs which contrasts perfect musical harmony and minor key melodies with stories of doubt, defiance and imperfect relations. Crisp guitars are adorned with ethereal strings and a tapestry of percussion details, making the EP a masterwork of ethereal but jagged beauty. The title track is the perfect example: a duet with legendary Swedish songstress Titiyo which blends intertwined vocals with irrisitable melodies,
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