Good things just keep coming for our Danish friends Northern Portrait! Following the runaway success of the band’s debut album ‘Criminal Art Lovers’ (matcd054) earlier this year, the album has now seen release in Japan, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the Philippines. As a result, the band has been hard at work making videos to accompany the album and the first fruit of that labor is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Ladies and gentlemen, I offer you the song that started it all for the band, ‘Crazy’:
Rumour has it we’ll have a video for ‘Life Returns to Normal’ before too long as well. The video is being produced to coincide with the release of a limited 7” (matinée 076) of that song, backed with a superb cover of the Cliff Richard hit ‘Some People.’ The single will come on magnificent clear vinyl in an ace full color jacket featuring vintage Volvo estate cars. It’s at the pressing plant now but we are still waiting on the test pressing so the release is a way’s off. Be patient though—we will provide more details and start preorders for the single next month!
In other news, Northern Portrait were just featured on Sky Sports of all places as a tie-in to the World Cup finals this week. In a nice band feature, they wrote “Copenhagen-based Northern Portrait remain relatively unknown in this country but it can only be a matter of time before someone influential hears their quintessential English sound and breaks them over here. Get your hands on ‘Criminal Art Lovers’ before Northern Portrait are on the front of the NME.”
You can read loads of other album reviews and more on the catalog page and download the fantastic album track ‘New Favourite Moment’ on the sounds page. ‘Criminal Art Lovers’ is available now from the Matinée shop and select international record vendors plus digitally from the usual suspects. You surely have it already though, no?