By Norse Mus

Over the course of one EP, an exquisite debut album, “The Line”, that emerged after 10 years of line-up changes, musical refinement and the relocation from the Liverpool art school where they first met, as well as a deeply atmospheric soundtrack for the videogame, “Kingdom Two Crowns: Norse Land”, the Norwegian/Swedish quartet have used elements of Norse folk, Scandic pop and alt and progressive rock without being beholden to any of them. In the process, and aerated by frontwoman Katrine Stenbekk’s sublime, stratosphere-ruffled vocals that belong to the same rarefied realms as artists such as Eivør, Aurora and Gåte’s Gunnhild Sundli, they’ve woven their own restless yet immersive world.