“Call it psych, weird folk, whatever…their sound is haunting and cozy, yet sometimes dark as tar. Turn down the lights and immerse yourself in it”

Ian McCann, Record Collector magazine

The Swedish-based duo Us and Them have a penchant for vocal harmonies and strong melodies in combination with elements of folk, psychedelia and baroque pop. The songs can be introspective and based on personal experiences, but also expressing timeless and universal stories. They first recorded for Fruits de Mer Records back in 2009 and have been regular visitors to the label since then, most recently with the first CD in our retrospective series ‘An Introduction to’ – it was a sell-out release.
But now it’s time for a new album - released on FdM’s ‘Friends of the Fish’ label.

In the autumn of 2022, Us and Them's third album. “…and I observed the blue sky” was released, an album that broadened Us and Them's musical styles and was born from the isolation that the covid pandemic enforced, as well as the focus that arose from this time. Since then, the duo has released a covers EP, a few singles and collaborated with other artists.

The duo's fourth album is “The Lights and the Shadow”, Britt and Anders explain...
"While working on it, the songs were pulling in two directions, partly towards the pastoral and idyllic - a kind of escape from reality and a denial of the world that is going on outside of us - and partly towards a darker, more atmospheric sound; it was as if the album as a whole described the different sides of life - the light that is at best the starting point but with the shadow that is always there and risks falling over our lives at any time, hence the album's title."

PLEASE NOTE: a small number of CDs of the album have been produced by Britt and Anders - all the copies that I will be getting have already been claimed, but do try Norman Records as they will be getting their own (very limited) supply

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