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.
Close behind recent offerings ‘Diana/Polina’ and debut single ‘Cant Find You’, the trio returns with their latest single, ‘Air Is Getting Stranger’, the title track from their debut album arriving this October 9 via The Satchi Six.
Carving the grunge rock pathway into their world ‘Air Is Getting Stranger’ is a song of fractured perception. That slow dawning sense that something in your surroundings is “off,” a bodily, almost physical recognition of disconnection. With its tense, shifting rhythms and layered vocals, the track feels like the first gasp of a long-awaited panic, an air thick with unease yet alive with strange possibility.
Speaking about the single, Spawner explains, “The song is about noticing something in your surroundings is off, a very recurring theme of the album, that you’re realising the uncanny valley you’re in. It feels like the beginning of a long-awaited panic attack, with a very bodily reaction. It’s literally in the air, your lungs, your senses – the start of your disconnection from the outside world.”
It’s a continuation of Spawner’s grunge-infused dream-pop exploration, where scuzzy guitars, bright sonic bursts, and fluid, instinctive interplay between the trio create a soundscape simultaneously unsettling and mesmerising.
Air Is Getting Stranger:
- Air Is Getting Stranger
- Can’t Find You
- Diana/Polina
- New Jeans
- How To Tie A Tie
- Fill The Blanks
- Respawn
- Safe And Sound
