2 March 2026
Artist: RAGING LINES
Who: Young DIY singer-songwriter/producer
Sondre Thomassen Thorvik from Oslo (Norway)
Album: SMILE BLANK
STT: “I think of music as multiple lines coexisting with one another. They all
move at different speeds but seem to catch up with one another in parts of
the song to make sense.”
TUTV: This is one of those records that drop in my inbox, now and then, without much information, from a non-English/American place, and turn out to be pretty special ones.
Norwegian musician Thorvik is obviously inspired
by the 70s/80s new wave/Goth/post-punk decades.
Opener Walk With Me and Too Dramatic, Too Paralyzed vibrate respectively like early
New Order and Joy Division, Things To Make It True, could be a previously unreleased
solo John Cale track, layers of Curesque guitars reverberate on Things Too Make It True
and Smile Blank, and Stay Away brings Bauhaus‘ moodiness to mind.
So much about the influences, but it’s Thorvik‘s architectural skills to shape
rock-solid songs, featuring passionate, personal reflections, mixed emotions
and outside observations, and his commanding baritone voice that set this
debut album apart. Raging Lines is a surprising discovery, Smile Blank is a
high-quality singer-songwriter accomplishment.
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