SARAH KLANG
SHARES ‘IT’S BEEN HEAVEN KNOWING YOU’: LISTEN HERE
SECOND ALBUM ‘CREAMY BLUE’ DUE FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 25TH
FOLLOWS SWEDISH ARTIST’S GRAMMY-WINNING, CHART-TOPPING DEBUT LP & TOUR WITH FIRST AID KIT
PLAYING DEBUT UK LIVE SHOW @ THE LEXINGTON ON DECEMBER 3RD
Sarah Klang, the self-confessed “saddest girl in Sweden”, is now gearing up for the release of her second album, ‘Creamy Blue’, and is today sharing the latest single from the album, ‘It’s Been Heaven Knowing You’. A sublime collection of widescreen heartbreak pop that’s Lana Del Rey via Weyes Blood delivered with a sugar-coated Scandi charm and healthy dose of self-deprecation, Sarah’s new album is due for release October 25th via Pangur Records. It arrives following a break-out 2018 that saw the 26-year old Gothenburg artist win a Swedish Grammy and chart at #1 with her debut album ‘Love In The Milky Way’. Following shows around mainland Europe – including a tour with First Aid Kid – Sarah will make her live UK debut at London’s The Lexington on December 3rd. You can stream ‘It’s Been Heaven Knowing You’ here:
A perfect taste of the reverb-soaked melancholia to come on the album, Sarah says of ‘It’s Been Heaving Know You’: “For me it’s about when you know a relationship ending, and you try your hardest to be kind and gentle. To remember the good things.” Complete with grandiose string sections, bleeding heart piano, dreamy Americana-tinged guitars and Sarah’s powerful hair-raising vocals, as this new single suggests, ‘Creamy Blue’ is a no-holds-barred ode to 21st century relationships (past and present, romantic and platonic) that’ll leave you wondering who hurt Sarah so bad – though selfishly thankful that they did if songs like this are the result.
The album skirts a very fine line between the deadly serious and the self-satirising (her Instagram also offers a hilarious tapestry of badly photoshopped pictures shining a light on this juxtaposition.) The title-track and lead single recently arrived via a video which captures Sarah’s lighthearted vintage pastiche both aesthetically and sonically. “I wanted it to look like a fancy 70s/80s film where all of us would just be really serious. I think it’s pretty funny,” she continues: “I wrote that song when I was staying in Italy, it was the first time I saw that kind of ocean. I sat on a cliff and I knew the relationship I was in wasn’t gonna last. So that’s what the song is about and also the whole album. The name ‘creamy blue’ is not really from that moment though. I just saw a cheese brand with that logo on and thought it looked really great.”
Whilst working as a waitress in her father’s bar, desperate for a change yet previously demoralised by a jaded musician ex who was deeply “negative about the whole industry,” a few years back Sarah made the decision to turn her hand to writing her own songs. Using a love of good old-fashioned ballads as her starting point, the result was something that intertwines classic 60s/70s pop, Americana and country to mesmerising effect. In next to no time she’d be playing to ever-growing crowds at underground venues around Gothenburg as she worked on her debut album in the background – innocently unaware of what was to follow.
The chart-topping and Grammy-winning debut ‘Love In The Milky Way’ arrived last year and catapulted Sarah into the spotlight. Its release was followed by two sold-out Scandinavian tours (one being a headliner, the second supporting First Aid Kit) plus further dates around mainland Europe that solidified her fast-growing reputation around the continent. Now with another run of EU dates in her sights which will include her debut UK show at London’s The Lexington on December 3rd, Sarah Klang’s highly-anticipated second full-length, ‘Creamy Blue’, will be released into the world October 25th.
‘CREAMY BLUE’ EU TOUR-DATES
27.11 – Hamburg (DE) – Nochtwache
28.11 – Berlin (DE) – Auster Club
29.11 – Amsterdam (NL) – Paradiso
30.11 – Mulheim an der Ruhr (DE) – Raumfahrtzentrum
01.12 – Arnhem (NL) – Luxor Live
02.12 – Paris (FR) – Pop-Up du Label
03.12 – London (UK) – The Lexington
23/1 – Zurich (CH) – Rockwoche
26/1 – Munchen (DE) – Kranhalle
27/1 – Leipzig (DE) – Neus Schauspiel
28/1 – Cologne (DE) – Blue Shell
30/1 – Copenhagen (DK) – Vega
31/1 – Aarhus (DK) – Atlas
02/2 – Oslo
(NO ) – Parkteatret
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