Wiaca, by SUNDAYS

Wiaca

by SUNDAYS

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Ben I checked out this album thanks to Spectrum Pulse’s high praise. I am glad I did, this is beautiful folk with a strong grasp of melody and hooks, with subtle, warm, and enriching melodies. Favorite track: Shade of the Pines.

Owen W From the opening notes, I knew this was something special. The instrumentation is lush without being overpowering, easy to fall into like your favorite pillow. Usually the vocals are my sticking point with most indie folk, but Magnus somehow rockets right past that reservation. This album feels like drinking a glass of lemonade on a breezy summer day. Favorite track: Passengers Choir.

Johnny Krejlgaard I was at Amagerbio and Sundays were playing before 10cc and the really are a fresh air of sensitive and well played. I'm very glad that I could listen to your performance! Favorite track: Passengers Choir.

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1.	Shade of the Pines 03:36	lyrics	buy track
Are we here tonight?  I see you change in the shade of the pines  We’ll go a little bit deeper this time - around  There’s no lung that can carry the pace When every hour keeps running away   And we bathe in bloom I see your face in the shape of the moon When we’ll go under I’ll reach for the truth – and say;  When I fall will you carry me name And carve it onto the back of this train Taking us further and further away   Don’t say you’re going to save me  Save me, save me  You’re not always going to save me  Save me, save..   So I ache my love  For a song I can slip through your drapes  And you would open and call out my name – so high  I’ll be swept off the beach in your eyes  And we’ll be back in the shade of the pines  But they’re getting harder and harder to find Don’t say you’re going to save me  Save me, save me  You’re not always going to save me  Save me, save me  Don’t say you’re going to save me  Save me, save me I know you’re going to save me Are we here tonight?  I see you change in the shade of the pines  Let’s go a little bit deeper this time
2.	Passengers Choir 04:15	lyrics	buy track
A road is just a trail of rocks, Showing where all others thought to go And a door is just a way to think, It’s nothing more than human links you know Well I understand what’s up and down, What’s back and forth, and all around me now But the joke’s on you if you believe That the more you own, the more you leave behind Cause there’s got to be a way There’s got to be a way for us Well the weekend shouldn’t have to be The beacon of your hopes and dreams, my friend Do you even know how many years You’ve spent on feeding all your fears for them? The roof, the floor, the walls in there Is nothing but a box of air and dust Man you’re a passenger of modern guilt, A scavenger of mother’s milk and trust So let the trumpets sound, Let the sunset drown, Let the Sundays count Cause there’s got to be a way There’s got to be a way for us
3.	Turn 03:35	lyrics	buy track
In the middle of a million suns, A got this feeling you could be the one But every time I try to be your man, You're burning up inside my hand You always told me life is bittersweet, I wanna show you all the bits I need There's no tomorrow when the taste is wrong, You shouldn't follow when I'm gone, gone, gone I thought there's a way I thought there's a way to turn it off I thought there's a way, There's a way to stop my hunger I peel these feathers off these broken wings, We said forever and the pain it brings But there's a punch in every time you say; It's taking longer than it takes I turn around and face the man I am, He's trying everything to reach my hand But there's a calling from the day above, The sky is ready as I take, take, take As I take, take, take off I thought there's a way I thought there's a way to turn it off I thought there's a way, There's a way to stop my hunger So close I can taste it So close, I don't wanna waste it So close, I'll never change it Well I know that I ain't going home I thought there's a way I thought there's a way to turn it off I thought there's a way, There's a way to stop my hunger
4.	Avalanche 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Well these days I’m like a maze, where you can’t get in All I need is a trace to catch the wind But spare me crumbs for the day I’m getting out And if that day ever comes I’ll shake the grounds Cause some say I’m like a hurricane I’ll move you if you’re in my way and vanish in the clouds But I feel more like an avalanche Leaving you no time or chance of ever getting out Well I dreamt that I fell into your web, and stuck around But now I’m hanging by a thread, and it’s a long way down Some say I’m like a hurricane I’ll move you if you’re in my way and vanish in the clouds But I feel more like an avalanche Leaving you no time or chance of ever getting out And I know the earthquake’s here any second now To drag me to the underground where I am never found And then it’s a moment like the apocalypse You don’t know what you’re gonna miss, until you’re left without Singing ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah Some say I’m like a hurricane…
5.	Afternoon Wakes 04:51	lyrics	buy track
Make way or make yourself, Fit the spacing on the shelf  is no one home?  Shades of dust between our lips, Can’t you taste that I’m blown to bits?  is no one home?  Final words on final steps,  Push me further no regrets  Well the twilight gets a say..   Let it shine the way for us,  Any time of day  Pull us by the traces to where we ran away  Let’s rest upon the branches, We thought were dead and gone  Now it’s clear that the answers Were there all along   I don’t want these afternoon wakes   Great this morning like a son,  Praise this coast we’re sliding on  is no one home?  Every trace I leave behind,  Leads me back to all the times  You saw me run away   ‘Cause I’m more like you,   And you are more like me  You think you want the truth,   But the truth is not for free  Let’s rest upon the branches, We thought were dead and gone  Now it’s clear that the answers Were there all along  I don’t want these afternoon wakes   Let’s get this evening on the run,   And leave our demons in the sun,  Let’s find the meaning to go on  Say yes  Let’s wake this morning up to life,  And eat our hunger bite for bite,  And keep our promise of the night  Say yes   I don’t want these afternoon wakes
6.	Fireman 03:47	lyrics	buy track
Timeless garden  Show me where to make my marking No one wants to be forgotten In this day and age  A homeward fever Hits me as I’m falling deeper Into where no color reaches  Shine a light in this storm  And follow it home   My fireman  Never loose your fire dance  All this letting go has left you on your own And everybody knows;   You’re burning up the world as you go A lost empire  Burning from within this fire  Time is just a god gone higher than we want to go  Oh righteous creature Time has been a violent teacher  Can’t you see how bright I need you?  Shine a light in this storm  And follow it home  My fireman… You’re burning up the world as you go again  Wasting all your time and sense,  All this letting go has left you on your own And everybody knows;   You’re burning up the world as you go  My bedside man  Never loose your red wine dance  All this letting go…  You’re burning up the world as you go
7.	Rush 04:02	lyrics	buy track
Did you call me in the dead of night? With your heart up in your throat to fight About all the times you never tried, And hang up for the morning light   Did you hold it dear, our wonderland?  Where the coast is clear and nothing is planned  Like a ghost you sit and watch your hand,  As it slowly fades out with the man you know  ‘Cause you’ve got to let him go Was it everything you said you wanted?  Was it everything you thought we would be?  ‘Cause the only thing that makes you stronger,  Are the cuts that make you bleed  And you can blame it on a million reasons,  Why so much of us remain untouched  Well we all need something to believe in,   As our bodies seek the rush   Was the aim too high or shot too low?  Did the rain wash off the bullets glow?   Guess we’ll never find out, never know,  If we ever really left the hole?  Well the earth is warm and the sky is sick,   When this curse is gone, then let us dig up  All the worst, the best  And kick off all the dirt that keeps us to the ground  And go another round?   A real love   Can you find a real love?  Well it’s got to be the real love, But you keep running from me
8.	Chants (Whenever There's Time) 05:19	lyrics	buy track
You never saw it coming,   You never heard the curtain call   I went out on my own,   And bowed before them all  You told me your secrets,   And I showed to the key to mine  Shaped like a question mark,   Colliding with the sky  The past and the future,  This vacuum we are in between  Is where I tell you that no one  Will ever solve this scene  And we both feel the river,   Dividing us to either shore  It cuts like a razor blade As we sing though the storm   Whenever there’s time  Whenever there’s time for me  Whenever there’s time  Whenever there’s time for me   I must have thrown a thousand,   I must have thrown a thousand stones  To build myself an island,  A place to call my own  And I guess I stopped counting,   When I couldn’t see you anymore  So now I’m throwing stepping stones,   To carry me home  The past and the future,  This vacuum we are in between  Is where I tell you that no one  Will ever solve this scene  And we both feel the river,  Dividing us to either shore  It cuts like a razor blade As we sing though the storm   Whenever there’s time  Whenever there’s time for me  Whenever there’s time  Whenever there’s time for me
9.	Romans 05:17	lyrics	buy track
All of these sycamore trees,   Rising high over me  Growing slower than bones,  Knowing all they should know  Time will be, time will tell,  If they leave where they fell  I guess the romans would say,   Nothing will grow in one day  All the best things you see,   They don’t come effortlessly  So put your back into what’s  Keeping you locked and shut  My heart is like a drum skin,  I beat it every time I feel alone  But every time the song ends,   I wake up to the silence of my soul   Please be my fountain of sighs,   Be my mountain to climb  Be my tower to hold,  All my power, my throne  I’ll be your echo to keep  Be your meadow to weep   My heart is like a drum skin,   I beat it every time I feel alone  But every time the song ends,  I wake up to the silence of my soul  If you keep marching for that something That no one ever really could control  It’s a monumental longing  That goes around what comes around, you know   You can shade the light or never shine at all  You can break a leg or never take the fall  You can change your ways for all to see,   Or race yourself eternally  The night is young  The fire’s burning tall   Well, my heart is like a drum skin,  I beat it every time I feel alone  But every time the song ends,   I wake up to the silence of my soul  If you keep marching for that something That no one ever really could control I t’s a monumental longing  That goes around what comes around, you know
10.	Don't Call Me Jesus 04:43	lyrics	buy track
I don’t know how I got here  But it must have been a long way, a long way  I don’t know how I got here  But it must have been a long way, to this light of day  I don’t know how I got here  But I must have had a ton to say, to talk this way  I don’t know how I got here  But it feels like an earthquake took me all the way   Call me a man, call me a child, call me a liar  Call me a chance, call me a try, call me a fighter  Call me an oak, call me a stroke, call me anything  But don’t call me Jesus no, ‘cause that’s not my name   I don’t know how I got here  But it must have been a long way, to this light of day  I don’t know how I got here  But I must have had a ton to say, to talk this way  I don’t know how I got here  But it feels like an earthquake took me all the way  I don’t know how I got here  But I’m inside a tidal wave, where there’s no escape   Call me a man, call me a child, call me a liar  Call me a chance, call me a try, call me a fighter  Call me an oak, call me a stroke, call me anything  But don’t call me Jesus no, ‘cause that’s not my name  Call me a fool, call me a bliss, call me a river  Call me a jewel, call me a fist, call me a shiver  Call me a foe, call me a friend, call me anything But don’t call me Jesus no, ‘cause that’s not my name   And I finally think it’s all okay  I finally think I’m on my way It’s time to push away this blame, And call me by my father’s name  I finally think it’s all okay  I finally think I’m on my way  It’s time to push away this shame, And call me by my mother’s name

about

Toward the end of a memorable year, neo-folk pop group SUNDAYS release their first album; an album that revolves around inner life and expectations from one’s surroundings, ten songs of memories and longings are evoked. ‘W i a c a’ is the sound of a band finding itself.

The journey // From its very first single to the final release – ‘W i a c a’ has been created through the course of an entire year. The songs have been captured and produced between tours, from the most important to the most obscure stages in the country, including an international baptism of fire in both Norway and Canada.

The process has matured both band and album, respectively, says front figure and songwriter, Magnus Jacobsen:

“We were still a quite ’young’ band on the verge of grasping and capturing a new sound, when we released our first EP in 2017. We simply decided to release the songs as we discovered various stages, along our way towards the album.”

Meanwhile, the five singles have been in rotation on the Danish Broadcasting Network’s channel 4 (P4) and achieved airplay in the UK, Australia, USA, and Canada. The journey will be completed on January 25th 2019, when ‘W i a c a’ is released by Celebration Records.

The Songs // The songs on the album are intensely driven by the sensibilities of pop. Yet, the songs also draw on a personal desire for storytelling known from folk and singer/songwriter traditions, and the nerve in Magnus Jacobsen’s voice that is clearly rooted in rock.

’W i a c a’ is an acronym for ’Where It All Comes Alive’. All the songs have a drive toward awakening and visibility– whether it be a desire to accept your life and personal history, or to examine the darker sides of your personality.

“Magnus has an almost uncanny sense of dynamics in the things he writes”, says guitarist Victor Ovesen, and adds: ‘I think he might possibly be one of the best songwriters Denmark has to offer at the moment.”

The Sound // On ‘W i a c a’, the voice and guitars are placed in a landscape of synth, strings, and vocal harmonies. By encapsuling the intimacy and presence of folk in seamless arrangements, ‘W i a c a’ gathers the warmth of different genre expressions. In many respects with thanks to album producer, Mads Björn.

Mads Björn has worked with artists such as TV2, Teitur, and Lis Sørensen along with label colleagues In Memoirs. The collaboration with Mads Björn has been vital for the band’s articulation and expansion of a sound, that is uniquely its own. Bass player and backing vocalist, Marie Linander Henriksen says: “Mads has a special ability to unfold Magnus’ songs and make them larger and deeper than we could have imagined, and that is truly a gift for a band.”

Magnus adds: “From once being a solo project that emerged from my bedroom, ‘W i a c a’ is now an exploration of what Victor, Marie, Morten, and I can achieve as a unity and we are immensely proud of the result.”

The Artwork // Like every single, the album’s artwork is built on abstract graphical works by drummer, Morten Falk Overgaard.

“I wanted to create an expression that was noticeable yet still open to interpretation. All my works, digital and analogue alike, are rooted in physical textures and an immediate approach to the use of materials. The band’s spherical yet down-to-Earth sound has clearly defined the artwork,” he explains.

credits

released January 25, 2019

Music & lyrics by: Magnus Jacobsen 
 
SUNDAYS are:  
Magnus Jacobsen - vocals, acoustic guitar 
Morten Falk Overgaard - drums, backing vocals 
Marie Linander Henriksen - bass, backing vocals 
Victor Ovesen - guitar, piano, backing vocals 
 
 
Additional Musicians: 
Mads Björn - synth , bass, guitar, banjo
Frederik Flach - keys , synth
Scott Westh - trumpet 
Taylor Rae Jensen - cello
 
 
Produced by: Mads Björn 
Mix by: Mads Björn  
Master by: Kristian Gadegaard

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Sundays is a new spark from the Danish underground scene, centering North Jutlandic Magnus Jacobsen on vocals and guitar.

Intensity, melody and nerve are the keystones which manifests in the young songwriters universe, and with a live setup involving vast amounts of backing harmonics in an organic instrumentation, this is exactly what the spectator can expect. ... more

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