When we look to the mountains, how do we feel? Are we gripped by a humbling sense of how small we truly are, or are we emboldened by an ambitious desire to ascend? Oddly, “I See Mountains,” the ethereal new dream-pop and trip-hop single from Oslo Twins, straddles a line between both, marking a far-off horizon that connects back to our own doing and our own willingness to embrace what’s in front of us.
How we react is up to us.
The hypnotic track dropped today (November 12), and it will be featured on the Bristol-formed and London-based duo of Eric C. Davies and Claudia Vulliamy’s forthcoming EP, Tresor, out February 14 on Half-Normal Records. “I See Mountains” utilizes violin by El Hinton-Hallows and a haunting grand piano by Ed Lyness’ to augment the mood, combining folk and electronic elements in a rather intoxicating way, and it seems to exist in its own genre lane as it unfolds with purpose over its three-plus-minutes.
“I wanted to create an image of the sublime, a kind of journey upwards into the sky,” says Vulliamy. “The phrase ‘I see mountains’ was originally my attempt to describe a strong emotional response to certain music, the images that were coming up in my head.”
Grace the sky with “I See Mountains” below.
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