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Denmark artist Bjarke Bendtsen, better known state-side as The Migrant, is back with his third album. Beads continues Bendtsen’s collective-style experimental/psychedelic folk-pop leanings. Loosely translated, GFRock calls the new album “A meditative journey in Nordic Americana.” Earlier this month, the band gave us a video created by a woman named Mary for album highlight “The Pony”. 
Highly artsy and following the story-like nature of The Migrant’s music, the video for “The Pony” is a great accompaniment to Bendtsen’s music. And the song itself is a great introduction to the music of The Migrant. Mary captures a common trait of The Migrant with her video for “The Pony”: the melancholy-to-sunshine effect. Bendtsen often begins his songs softly and with a hint of sadness, but a they grow and build into something much more monumental, the sun comes out and the dreariness disappears. 
I’ve been a fan since the band’s debut 2010 LP, Travels in Lowland. Opening track “The Organ Grinder” still grips me, as does “The Hurricane” off The Migrant’s 2011 follow-up Amerika. 
You get some of the same on Beads; some songs are soft and fairly minimal whereas others have that full, truly lovable folk-pop sound of the aforementioned tracks. Songs like “Carriage” and “Kids”, “Nuts” and, of course, “The Pony”.

Tracklisting:
01. The Lion (05:37)
02. Beads (05:12)
03. Ask The Current (03:14)
04. Strangers (06:15)
05. Through The Night (03:56)
06. Days (03:19)
07. Nuts (03:37)
08. Amsterdam (05:20)
09. The Pony (03:24)
10. Carriage (07:40)
11. Place To Rest (04:34)
12. Kids (06:15) 

Extra Informatie:
Aantal Discs: 1xCD
Genre: Indie Rock, Folk
Format: Mp3 @ 320kbit
Year of Release: 2013
Speelduur: 59 minuten
Cover: Front is in de RARs verwerkt