Last month Malcolm Pardon announced the release of his new solo album, The Abyss, and shared the gentle and melancholic ‘Enter The Void’. Now the Swedish composer and producer is teasing the album again with a gorgeous and cinematic second single called ‘Patchwork’. “The idea behind ‘Patchwork’ was the thought of creating something out of nothing,” Pardon explained. “Starting off with a very static bass line that really doesn’t tell you much about where you are heading, it slowly evolves and develops into a shape and form which takes you onto different paths and leads you forward. Like a reflection of a life cycle, if you will.”
Listen to ‘Patchwork below’ and grab The Abyss when it drops on September 20th through The Leaf Label.
Malcolm Pardon, who is also one half of Swedish electronic duo Roll The Dice with Peder Mannerfelt, is back with a new solo album. Entitled The Abyss, the upcoming record continues to build on the death related themes explored in his 2021 solo debut Hello Death. “It’s not meant to be threatening or horrific in any way,” Pardon explained. “There’s this constant dialogue we have with ourselves about how we’re going to die at some point. It’s like a constant companion, so you might as well get to know it, and befriend it.”
The Abyss will be released September 20th through The Leaf Label and ahead of it the composer and producer has shared the gentle and melancholic ‘Enter The Void’, which “serves as a perfect distillation of Pardon’s approach, balancing a delicate piano refrain with a low, rumbling blast of noise before being carried aloft by swooning strings that echo down a distant hall”, as the press release describes. ‘Enter The Void’ is offered with an unsettling video by Swedish director Oskar Wrangö, who had this to say:
“I have always been drawn to Malcolm’s music. It creates new images in my mind, and that’s a pretty rare thing. To me this track is a fine balance between real darkness and simple beauty. I wanted to create a unique visual experience in that landscape – when it comes to the end of things or the beginning of something unknown. It comes from a dark depressive past of my own and I think the strong contrasts are important. It’s taken me to new and interesting places. If ever a nightmare was poetic, this is my very personal interpretation of the title – Enter The Void.”
