GRETA Details New LP 'Forever We'll Be Dancing', Airs Double Single "Out Of Mind / Nicht Allein"

Denmark's rising, self-proclaimed sci-fi pop artist GRETA (aka Greta Schenk), has revealed full details of her forthcoming sophomore album 'Forever We'll Be Dancing'.

The 10-track album was recorded in Berlin with Norwegian artist and producer Farao and Ådne Meisfjord of the Norwegian rock band 120 Days, and will be out on February 4th 2022 through W.A.S Entertainment. Pre-order your copy here.

GRETA moves through a magical universe where transcendence and futurism merge with nostalgia and the familiar. Her lyrics are laden with existential reflections on the core of life, which she explores through the contrast of light and dark. Her sound reflects her love for 80s synths and grooves while also embracing futuristic sounds, which she seamlessly threads together with bright and airy vocals. By encapsulating those dichotomies, her music has the ability to evoke multiple emotions at once - listening to these tracks awakens both a melancholic nostalgia and hopeful euphoria all at once.

She draws on 90s dream trance artists like Robert Miles, 80s meditative new age artists like Clifford White, minimalist techno groups like Moderat, the lush synthpop soundscapes of I Break Horses, the dark wave sound of Boy Harsher as well as the more contemporary electro-pop sensibilities of Sassy 009 to create an exciting and fresh sound.

Speaking about new single, Greta says: "'Out of Mind’ was actually the first song I wrote on the album. It captures the feeling of losing your mind in a kind of absurd situation, where you feel trapped (to me this was lockdown). The feeling of losing track of time and just being forced to wait on life to happen. I wrote the song during this really absurd state of mind, which made it almost comic and that’s definitely showing in the appearance of the song. ‘Out of Mind’ is reflecting feelings of both longing and hoping for something else." 

The album is centered around transitions and "great love", as reflected in 'Out of Mind'. GRETA continues: "At the time I wrote the album, I felt very artistically liberated, because the music has always been my escape and a light in the dark. During both the Corona lockdown and my husband’s illness, I felt a great love and connection, but also a longing for breaking away, being free, living life and wanting everything to go back to normal."

Check out the album's tracklist and listen to their new songs "Out Of Mind" and "Nicht Allein", below.

Forever We'll Be Dancing Tracklist:

01. Vibrant

02. Stranger

03. Nicht Allein

04. Wonder

05. Drei

06. Forever We'll Be Dancing 

07. Bliss II 

08. Will You Stay

09. Genug

10. Out of Mind 

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Watch: GRETA Premieres New Single/Video "Forever We'll Be Dancing"

Denmark's rising, self-proclaimed sci-fi pop artist GRETA (aka Greta Schenk), has premiered the video for her new single "Forever We'll Be Dancing".

The song is the title track from her upcoming sophomore album.

Forever We'll Be Dancing is a declaration of love for Greta's husband. “My husband has been struggling with depression since we met and it was the worst last spring. One of the things that has helped him get out of it was actually something as simple as physical movement. To swim and dance. To feel free from all the heavy for a while. It became the focal point for me when I wrote the song. The lyrics are full of water metaphors, and the phrase 'Forever We'll Be Dancing' means to me that we can overcome everything and will always dance together through life, no matter how much it goes up or down, " says Greta.

Watch/listen below.

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Watch: GRETA Unveils New Single/Video "Vibrant"

Denmark's rising, self-proclaimed sci-fi pop artist GRETA (aka Greta Schenk), has unveiled the video for her catchy new single "Vibrant".

The song,  produced by Norway’s FARAO and glittered with a kitsch 80s bassline, was born out of the romantic bubble Schenk and her husband shared during lockdown through, and is out now via W.A.S. Entertainment. 

Schenk says of the track: "'‘Vibrant’ is about two people who love each other and spend the lockdown together. It is about the feeling of reality becoming a blur, about losing a sense of time, becoming restless and longing for something more. Something more from each other but from life too. The song captures the frustration that you feel because the world is no longer the same and you’re constantly longing for something new. The song contains a lot of love and connectedness and at the same time is about sharing a common longing to go out and dance, for some sort of escape. I hope the listener will feel both the euphoria and the longing in the song, and that it will make them want to dance and dream. It can hopefully work as a brief form of escapism.”

GRETA moves through a magical universe where transcendence and futurism merge with nostalgia and the familiar. Her lyrics are laden with existential reflections on the core of life, which she explores through the contrast of light and dark. Her sound reflects her love for 80s synths and grooves while also embracing futuristic soundscapes, which she seamlessly threads together with bright and airy vocals. By encapsulating those dichotomies, her music has the ability to evoke multiple emotions at once - to listen to a song like ‘Vibrant’ is to experience a sort of melancholic nostalgia and euphoria both at the same time.

Watch/listen below.

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