This Single of the Week, "Time is like a Melody," comes from new-to-the-scene Danish band Pinkunoizu. The four band members, Andres Pallisgaard, Jaleh Negari, Jakob Falgren and Jeppe Brix, are all pharmacists from Copenhagen. This already quirky sounding band only gets stranger.
Instead of pigeonholing themselves into one or two genres, the band members prefer to describes themselves as "a group playing an exotic mixture of lo-fi, high-life, modern composition music, nu-folklore, asian ‘60s pop and future post-apocalyptic underwater rock."
Pretentious? Probably. Interesting? Definitely.
"Time is like a Melody" is the first release from Pinkunoizu off Peep EP. This underground experimental group establishes early on in the single that they do not intend to sound conventional in any way.
The steady, slow and clear electric guitar sound seems normal enough at first, but when the mellow, synthed up vocals kick in the song really begins to embrace the bizarre.
Throughout the song, I felt as though I was drifting through a psychedelic, ethereal mist — which I am sure is exactly what Pinkunoizu is intended.
The title is very appropriate, as time seems to float away as the song progresses. And of course, the song already comes complete with a trippy, colorful, acid trip of a music video.
If Pinkunoizu sounds like anyone, the closest comparison would be MGMT or Passion Pit. Their songs make very little sense, but that could be the beauty of them.
Pinkunoizu has said they are "building soundscapes" with their music, not actual songs. As of now, it is unclear whether this is just affected, overly artsy, hipsterism or something more. Only time will tell.
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