Director: Nicholas Wakeham Director assistant: Nils Byrfors Camera/Editing: Nicholas Wakeham Post Production: Martin Ottosson/Nicholas Wakeham Production assistant: Emma Nordström Production company: www.varelsen.com
We are proud to announce that Idiot kids album "Darkness in our house" are released at Hybris today! The album have been released in Sweden as a physical CD at the small label Slottet. It was made in a very limited pressing and are sold out and practically impossible to get your hands on. The album got very fine reviews in Sweden. It was also nominated as one of the five best swedish albums of the year by the chief editor of Sonic, the leading music magazine in Sweden. This is a well kept swedish secret that too few have yet discovered. The album is a calm masterpiece. Through our digital distributor The Orchard, the worlds leading digital distributor, the album is as of today available on all digital platforms from Rio to Tokyo.
Idiot Kid is Linus Lutti (guitar and lead vocals) and Ann-Sofie Lundin (piano, organ and backing vocals). Together they create ornamented and mysterious pop music, dark and tender at the same time. This is their debut album, "Darkness In Our House". It is a most appealing and relevant contribution emerging from the wide pop scene in Sweden, in lovelyness on par with the holy bodies made by Loney Dear, Wildbirds & Peacedrums and José González.
Idiot Kid blend sounds of folk, rock and blues but most of all their music is their very own. In the universe of Idiot Kid, the quiet and glistening are as vivid as the tempered and regretful. Linus voice is raspy and self-exposing, vulnerable. His guitar playing manages to stitch together the elements of finger picking, dreamy melodies and tearing chords with an aggressive and awaiting double bass, echoing pianos with a lonely trumpet, a harmonium or a mandolin.
The brilliant production of the "Darkness in Our House" is that of Johan Berthling (Tape, The Tiny etc.), who is one of most original and talented producers (as well as musicians) that our country has to offer. His naked arrangements provide a dimension that is rare amongst produced pop albums of today. The soundscapes in the songs are built up with swirling frequencies and roars, making one aware that the songs have elements of an eno-esque sense of the importance of detail and entirety. The music/songs itself, reminds of such diverse names as Will Oldham and Colin Blunstone, Tindersticks and Vetiver. But there is always something else behind that, a je-ne-sais-quoi that makes these references nothing more than just so. This is part of the uniqueness that is so striking about Idiot Kid.
During a year of intense playing around Stockholm, the duo of Linus and Ann-Sofie has frequently been joined, on stage as well as in the studio, by several talented musicians ranging from a broad spectrum of musical fields. Andreas Söderström, usually in his tributed solo project ASS as well as Swedish constellations Barr, Pallin and Blood Music, is a guest of Idiot Kid's, playing everything from harmonium and trumpet to glockenspiel and mandolin. Patric Thorman, of the folk-psych trio Susurrus Station and the experimental jazz band Sound of Music, to name a few, plays double and electric bass. Other contributors include Lars Skoglund (Laakso, Moneybrother), Ola Hultgren (Sound of Music, Loney Dear and Nicolai Dunger), Tomas Hallonsten (Tape, Exploding Costumer), the violinist Lisa Rydberg and Slottet's own soon-to-be superstar Jean-Louis Huhta.
Video - Darkness in our house
Linus Lotti of Idiot kid also makes music as Little Children these days.
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