New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following the release of their new single 'She is Lost', a performance at the prestigious Canadian
Music Week and 10-day Canadian tour, Danish post-punk trio The Foreign Resort has two new exciting announcements.
First, the band will tour several cities in north-west
Europe with NYC's Dead Leaf Echo (tour dates below). Second, they are crowdsourcing the new video for 'She is Lost', asking fans to make their own contribution to The Foreign Resort experience by creating a video that the band shall adopt as its official video, to be shared internationally.
This is the first song from the band's next full length album, seeing the trio return to the analogue sound of their 'New Frontiers' album, only with a sound that is more minimalistic and with plenty of electronics and spacious drums to create a dreamy yet upbeat soundscape full of contrast.
For lead singer Mikkel B. Jakobsen 'She is Lost' is a very personal song about what he sarcastically refers to as "the summer of love": "It was one of the worst summers in my life. I came out strong on the other side, but this song was written partly when things were looking very bad and I was not doing the right things to get to a better place and partly when I had realized it was not just me who was the problem. Hence the title 'She is Lost'."
The Foreign Resort are Denmark's finest musical export of post-punk and dark new wave, led by singer and songwriter Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen. The band combines the shadowy mysticism of The Cure's Pornography era with a driving production aesthetic akin to LCD Soundsystem. Intricate reverb-enveloped guitar lines glide over Steffan Petersen's motorik bass and
Morten Hansen's powerful drumming, all while Mikkel's taut and sincere vocal delivery demands your attention.
Having toured with The Raveonettes, A Place to Bury Strangers and Swervedriver, The Foreign Resort has also shared bills with bands like DIIV, The Soft Moon, The KVB, Slowdive, Minor Victories and, most recently, Cold Cave. They've also toured the USA relentlessly, addicted to the allure of America's lost highways. Since 2010, the band has been rigorous in playing more than 400 shows across North
America and
Europe with performances at several festivals incl. SXSW, Iceland Airwaves, Wave Gotik Treffen in Germany and now also Canadian
Music Week 2017.
The band's latest release 'The American Dream' was dubbed "post punk par excellence" by Deep Ground, with Slug Magazine saying this is "an EP that possesses a singular fault: It is not long enough". The Foreign Resort's 2014 album "New Frontiers" ranked among the year's top albums at radio stations like WZBC
Boston and KDHX St. Louis as well as numerous European and American blogs.
"The most exciting band to come out of Denmark since The Raveonettes" - Louder Than War
"Soundscapes with slightly shimmering shoegaze guitars accompanied by occasional edgy synth cascades and airy reverb infused vocals" - Post-Punk
"Some really good, loud stuff here that nu gaze fans of M83 and The Pains of Being Pure at
Heart should enjoy" - Consequence of Sound
"This band is epic! Remnants of
Killing Joke and Joy Division lay in their wake as they pick up random sonic body parts left by bands ranging from The
White Lies to U2" - The Big Takeover
"The most effective new wave this side of the oughts" - Top40-Charts.com
"Takes the listener into "new frontiers" of electronic music infused with '80s melodies and new wave punk" - Elmore Magazine
Written, composed and performed by Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen,
Morten Hansen, Henrik Fischlein
Produced & mixed by The Foreign Resort
Engineered by The Foreign Resort & Bo Karlsson
Recorded at White Dwarf Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mastered by Chris Cline
TOUR DATES
MAY 18 Aarhus, Denmark - Sway (with Dead Leaf Echo)
MAY 19 Odense, Denmark - Ungdomshuset (with Dead Leaf Echo and ZRN)
MAY 20 Copenhagen, Denmark - KB18 (with Dead Leaf Echo, Echo People, Totentanz DJs)
MAY 24 Leipzig, Germany - Bandhaus (with Dead Leaf Echo, DJ Knüpfi)
SEPT 26 Lübeck, Germany - Rider's Cafe (Reveller Party with Then Comes Silence,
Future Lied to Us)
SEPT 28 Sønderborg, Denmark -
Black Spot
SEPT 29 Cologne, Germany - Blue Shell
SEPT 30 Prague, Czech Republic - TBC
NOV 3 Berlin, Germany - Bi Nuu (with She Past Away, Golden Apes)
NOV 4 Lucerne, Switzerland - Sedel (with Rev Rev Rev, DJ V404 & JHG Shark)
