Rock by Smiling

The project has seen members come and go but the partnership between Johan and Arvid Ingvarsson have instead grown stronger. During 2020 and the quarantine in Norway the duo took the chance to write new material which later became a set of two EP’s. The Second one is ´Rock’.

Isolation very much became the theme of this first record where the duo come to terms with loneliness and how it necessarily doesn’t have to be something bad. They also started experimenting with different instruments on this new material which they describe as “more colorful than what we’ve done before”. Where they formerly used the guitar as a foundation for every track they’ve now started incorporating more clavier, synths and drum machines.

Smiling began in 2018 as Johan Hansson Liljeberg’s creative outlet to process the heartbreak of a breakup. Since then, the project has grown into a fully realized band with Arvid Ingvarsson, Julia Wiklund, and August Glännestrand.

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