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DON'T TAKE THE LIGHT AWAY / REMEMBER ME (COLOR VINYL) (DAIS RECORDS)

KITE - DON'T TAKE THE LIGHT AWAY / REMEMBER ME (COLOR VINYL) 163237
Format:
1 7"
Release:
05.04.2024
Label:
DAIS RECORDS
Genre:
Electro/Funk
Kat.-Nr.:
163237
Barcode:
0683950556904
Transparent Yellow w/ Black Splatter Vinyl. Since founding Swedish synthpop duo KITE in 2008, singer Nicklas Stenemo and keyboardist Christian Hutchinson Berg's brooding fusion of cinematic electronics and anthemic pop has steadily elevated into a spectacle of passion, atmosphere, and communion.

Their debut double-A vinyl single for Dais Records, Don't take the light away / Remember me captures KITE at their most urgent, thrilling and apocalyptic."Don't take the light away" is a song about "the war between energies," with singer Stenemo's wounded croon leading a rising tide of stabbing strings, pulsing percussion, and looming bass orchestrated by keyboardist Hutchinson Berg, surging to a mass-chanted chorus both desperate and triumphant ("dance, let them dance into me / people versus people can't see / hands should be holding hands").

"Remember me" was written following the band's 2017 US tour, capturing the intense feelings of burnout and exhaustion.

"Remember me, Won't you remember me, Promise you'll remember me."Words only tell half of the story; smoke spills across the stage, and the melodies become a battle cry.

Our worst fears eventually boil over, turning into hope and resilience. Like the best of KITE's music, "Don't take the light away" and "Remember me" fuse theater and catharsis into anthems of universal yearning, born of "the struggle to keep a flickering candle lit in a very dark space."
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. DON'T TAKE THE LIGHT AWAY
  • 1.2. REMEMBER ME