JORDSJØ

Salighet KARISMA

DL

Ingenious retro-prog from the frozen north. This prolific Norwegian duo have been making fine vintage-style prog for nearly a decade now. Having cleared the decks with last year’s Nattfiolen Suite (an epic outtake from 2019’s Nattfiolen album) and Jord Sessions (rejigged material from their self-titled), they can now get back to the vivid, sepia-steeped adventures that made 2021’s Pastoralia such a joy. Salighet is Jordsjø’s fifth full-length, and it’s their most fully realised flight of fancy yet. Their sound is still an amalgam of classic 70s prog, Norwegian jazz and lysergic folk, but there’s a sense of momentum to songs like the shape-shifting Sankeren that makes this a more immediate record than its predecessors. It flows beautifully from start to finish, but saves its most sumptuous indulgences for the closing…

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