While the song is catchy in a classic way that goes beyond language, I’ll admit to a bourgeois shame not knowing even how to start counting in Danish, and so Lydsyn‘s new single, “Musik Er Nummer 1,” taught me that “en” is “one.” Never too old to learn. Hopefully at some point they put out a song about the number two.

The Copenhagen heavy rock and rollers will release their second album, Højspændt (“high tension,” according to a major internet company’s translation matrix), on Oct. 25 through Bad Afro Records. A promo clip — maybe a snippet of a larger video for the song yet to be unveiled? — has been posted, along with the song itself, which one can easily imagine frontman Uffe Lorenzen, who’s still perhaps better known as Lorenzo Woodrose of Baby Woodrose, though he has solo material under his own name, has been part of other bands/projects, and so on, delivering the title line at a gig like that depicted. Regardless of my linguistic ignorance, the band’s 2022 self-titled debut (review here) was a jewel of garage and proto-heavy stylization from a master of the form prone to psychedelic leans. Where the next one might go, I haven’t heard it and won’t speculate, but songwriting is songwriting, and “Music Er Nummer En” reaffirms that’s exactly what’s at play here.

No real PR wire announce for this one, but Bad Afro and the band both posted the song/video with some info and confirmed the release on social media, and the below is cobbled together from that and Bandcamp:

Online NOW: “Musik Er Nummer 1” is the first digital single taken from the upcoming Lydsyn album “Højspændt” due out October 25th.

You can have a listen at your preferred streaming platform here: https://lydsyn.lnk.to/musik

If you are not into streaming you can listen for free at the Bad Afro Bandcamp: https://badafrorecords.bandcamp.com/track/musik-er-nummer-1

Here is the first single from our upcoming album Højspændt. The pictures come from the two sold out concerts at the Flea in April, where we played all the songs live for the first time. If you were present, there’s a good chance that you can spot yourself in the video. album will be released on the 25th. october.

Camera: Jens Raadal and Claus Michaelsen
Klip og grade: Fuzz Cake Film

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Lydsyn, “Musik Er Nummer 1”

Lydsyn, “Musik Er Nummer 1” promo video