Emerging from the fringes of Copenhagen’s ever-curious underground, Spawner are an exciting new trio twisting rock music into strange and slippery forms. Drawing on a palette that veers from scuzzy grunge to dream-pop haze, their sound feels like tuning into a half-remembered frequency – melancholic, slightly surreal, and always a little off-centre.
Today, via their label-home of The Satchi Six they share their second single to date, ‘Diana/Polina’, continuing the grunge rock pathway into their world. The off-kilter grunge missive from Copenhagen’s newest shape-shifting band, with heavily distorted guitars, an intense drum beat and the signature stacks of soft vocals.
Swerving between crushed-out grunge riffs, heavy drums and a soft-loud tension that always threatens to derail but never quite does, their second offering feels like waking up mid-dream. It’s the sound of three people learning each other’s rhythm in real-time – a track built on instinct, not instruction.
Speaking about their second single, Spawner describe how ‘Diana/Polina’ is a song about “dating a person who has two personalities. Not someone with dissociative identity disorder, but rather someone who can shift between different personas – and about the intensely abstract confusion that arises from that. It’s a way of fully surrendering to the strange, unreal, and eerie emotions that can emerge in a love life.”