SPURV

Norwegian six-piece take post-rock to explosive new heights.

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“THE THING I admire most in other bands and musicians, and strive to achieve myself, is an acute attention to composition – and how albums function as a whole and not merely as collections of independent songs,” guitarist and main composer Gustav Jørgen Pedersen explains, after Prog asks what sets Norwegian post-rockers Spurv apart from their peers in an oversaturated market. According to him, Spurv exist in “a genre of music that has been very codified over the last decade or so”. The difference is that they’ve found a space in which to exist almost uniquely, due to their hypnotic yet enthralling combination of post-rock and orchestral magnificence, which is captured on their recent fourth album, Brefjære. “I think there’s no reason to listen to the same chord progressions played…

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