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Nov 29, 2012 Nord & Syd By Laura Studarus

“Björkar” (translation: Birches) is Swedish band Nord & Syd’s first single for Hybris (home to Under the Radar favorites Korallreven, Jonathan Johansson, and El Perro Del Mar among others). It’s a slow building, Mamas & the Papas-style pop affair, singer Julia Hanberg’s haunted voice conjuring images of sunlight through the titular trees on a winter’s day. (Perhaps she’s California dreamin’?)

“Our new single “Birches,” is an attempt to rewrite Bat for Lashes “Daniel,” says Hanberg. You will always write someone else’s song, but it will be your own interpretation. You have to do it from your own point of view and you will have to be honest. “The trees in the lyrics –in this case the birch tree—are used for different reasons. It is easy to see something human in birches: their tribes have eyes and mouths and their crowns whisper. Therefore, they not only become a context for the story, but also something that observes and takes part in the story too.”

Download the haunting track below.

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