SOTD #204 // [Premier] Korallreven: ‘Honey Mine (Memoryhouse Remix)’

Today’s track from the Balearic Swedish pop duo Korallreven, as remixed by their Canadian dream-pop counterparts Memoryhouse, says goodbye to the blinkered, saccharine romanticism of Valentine’s Day and welcomes the wilting flowers of its aftermath. A bittersweet tale of faded love ‘Honey Mine’ was released last year, premiering on The Line of Best Fit’s own Podcast back in October.

Opening with fluttering keys, soft ambient noise and the cooing, echoing voice of Taken By Trees’ chanteuse Victoria Bergsman, Memoryhouse’s re-work soon sees a smooth, 90s-esque percussive beat build underneath nostalgia drenched synths. The swelling, tortured ecstasy of the songs slow moving rhythm, twists around its blissful instrumentals and envelops the mesmerising, looping vocals until the song becomes a hazy cacophony of noise. Delicate and slightly isolated, feelings of love and loss are perpetuated by heart-rending minor chords and violin strings that almost bring the song to a halt half way through. Tense, sorrowful and yet hopeful the melody’s off-kilter beginnings resume once more as Bergsman’s soothing voice regains central stage.

With an album hopefully due out this spring, Korallreven’s Marcus Joons and Daniel Tjader’s beautiful yet mournful St. Etienne inspired soundscape seems in perfect harmony with the distorted romantic, dream-pop tendencies of Denise Nouvion and Evan Abeele.

Korallreven: ‘Honey Mine (Memoryhouse Remix)’