Cat No: NEWS502702
Format: CD

Some three years ago Eskimo Recordings unveiled their debut artist album release, Lindstrom and Prins Thomas’s eponymous debut LP which captured the hearts and minds of the global music community, received superlative reviews across the world, catapulted the pair into the limelight and subsequently helped to put the words ‘cosmic’ and ‘disco’ back into the dance music lexicon. Now after various solo artist projects, Oslo’s finest return with the highly anticipated ‘II’ and a worthy successor to their ground-breaking first album.

Hans-Peter Lindstrom and fellow Norwegian, Thomas M. Hermansen (aka Prins Thomas) are two of the hottest leftfield dance artists around. Whilst Thomas’s roots come from a more dance/DJ background, multi-instrumentalist Lindstrom provides the backbone to the pair’s beautiful and melodic approach that takes their music from the dancefloor and into a looser groove that could fit happily in any home listening environment.

They have each pursued solo projects recently, but they now join forces again for yet another venture into their own musical playground. While retaining a lot of the musical ideals and ideas of the first album, the new album is more organic, psychedelic, live and loose, making ‘II’ such a welcome return of a release. Featuring elements of italo, krautrock and disco-influenced productions, Lindstrom and Prins Thomas provide us with yet more lush basslines, sublime melodies and rolling rhythms bursting with pure emotion. Throughout you can find the experimental energy of the continental space-disco of the eighties which the pair still adore: melodic, synth-heavy and cinematic, with arpeggiated basslines set to organic, flowing grooves.

Lindstrom and Prins Thomas’s sublime norse code continues to astound, invigorate and inspire as every twist and nuance is embellished with a warmth and glow few seem capable of capturing. The space-disco kings are back.