Danish singer-songwriter Nils Bloch drops his 2nd single “Iolanda”, a billowing indie-folk song that blends Leonard Cohenesque confessions with Beach House haziness.
The song signals the release of an EP later this year and follows up last year’s debut single “The Marsh” which garnered great responses and led to a contract with Edition Mightytunes Publishing.
“Iolanda” and the upcoming EP revolve thematically around the phenomenon of memory. It is a song about accepting that someone has moved on and finding peace and beauty in that. Bloch says of the single:
“Iolanda is a letter to a former partner’s new lover. A blessing and a wish that they will surrender to her in a way that I was never able to. To me this imagined scenario is a way of reconciling myself with my past and maybe to ask for some kind of forgiveness.”
A simple pulse introduces the song, tattered organs and haunted choirs reach us from a distance orbiting around the confessional vocal making it both grandios and intimate at the same time.
“Musically I think of the vocal as a confessional ‘now’ which is being invaded by memories and dreams. I take a lot of inspiration from ambient music in order to create a field of tension between the confidential tone of the vocal and the ghostlike sfumato of the music.”
