Fans who know Lars Vognstrup from his work with Danish retro-beat bunch Junior Senior might be surprised at the pop-rockishness of the Wolfkin project. The pair plays a sort of cockeyed George Harrison revival music, heavy on world and psychedelic tropes but realized in a modern studio.
Lars Vognstrup and Kristian Godtfredsen - collectively known as Wolfkin - were neighbors when they first started writing and recording music together. Although both were still heavily involved in other successful projects at the time (Lars, was with Junior Senior and in the band Money Your Love and Kristian, in his band Sleeping Agents), it wasn't long before they realized that they had a unique musical understanding of one another and a chemistry that compelled them to start collaborating on a more serious level. Before they knew it, an album was in the works.
Wolfkin will take you down for a trip through their own personal fantasia. A place where mirages of orchestras, string-sections and otherworldly sceneries are invoked amidst the duo's hall-of-mirrors band. Treacherous tales and adult themed adventures - sung with great pathos and cheeky self-relativity by two male singers. A musical mixture of exotic noir, Morricone Americana, stylish and dirty drum programming that demand dancing, and oozing with psychedelic sensibilities reminiscent both of the spaced-out synthesizer meditations of the seventies as well as the sixties' hotheaded guitar-driven ecstasy of rock&roll. At heart, it all remains a case of classical singing and songwriting: songs that both hooks you and hoodwink you, as they unfold lush in detail and ever-changing, shimmering from that murky twilight state between the real and the unreal.