Danish musician GRO debuts with minimalistic electronic art pop
GRO is the solo project of Danish singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Julie Møller Christensen. With heartfelt devotion to synthesizers and an experimental open mind, she approaches the pop-genre in a refreshingly new way. The minimalistic yet present debutsingle Fade In Time is recorded in her home studio, a space of creative freedom and therapeutic processes.
"Fade In Time is made with a sampler, a bass and a vocoder which makes my voice synthetic, an effect I think acts as a perfect counterbalance to the honest lyrics, which is about the process of accepting loss. I lost my mother when I was 22 years old. For a while, I isolated myself in my apartment in Copenhagen and took time to deal with the difficult emotions. Fade In Time is one of the songs that came out of me in this period", Julie explains.
Julie grew up with flower power and folk music in a suburb outside of Copenhagen. At a young age, she began writing songs using her dads many string instruments that hung on the walls of the childhood home. During adolescence she became increasingly interested in electronic music, a genre which she later studied at the conservatory.
Her professional career started when she became part of the Danish synth-pop band We Are The Way For The Cosmos To Know Itself. The band has played concerts at major festivals and reached airplay on Danish and international radio. GRO bears traits of all this and the result is an interesting art-pop cocktail with Julie's weightless vocals on top.
lyrics
Don’t you know I’ve been broken just like you?
Oh well, now you know
My closest one she left when I was 22
Oh well, now you know
When every fucked up memory is running down your cheek
You’ll be wasting, falling till you get it right
It will break you, haunt you till it fades in time
Should have known
In a second life can change
Its hard to forget
Maybe being angry is a necessary part of this but I wasn’t mad at her
I spend hours and hours trying to settle with the fact that
I I’ll be wasting, falling till I get it right
It will break me, haunt me till it fades in time
Life bites sometimes and shows you that you’re not always the one in charge
You're the master of the carousel but certain things can never be undone
And in the end the only thing that we decide is how we paint with black and white
credits
released February 12, 2020
Lyrics/Music/Arrangement by Julie Møller Christiansen
GRO is:
Julie Møller Christiansen - vocals, sampler, bass, vocoder
Produced by Julie Møller Christiansen
Mixed by Mads Kinnerup Jørgensen
Mastered by Emil Thomsen, ET Mastering
GRO is the solo project of Danish singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Julie Møller
Christensen.
With heartfelt devotion to synthesizers and an experimental open mind, she approaches the pop-genre in a refreshingly new way. Her songs are recorded in her home studio, a space of creative freedom and therapeutic processes resulting in an art-pop cocktail with weightless vocals on top....more
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