Kalandra - A Frame of Mind

Kalandra  - A Frame of Mind

Label: Norse Music - BNM084LPGOLD 
Format: LP, Album Gold
Country: UK
Released: 13th Sep 2024
Genre: Rock 
Style: Folk / Rock

Description
In true Kalandra fashion, the band’s new album, “A Frame Of Mind”, doesn’t just tell a story, it embodies one. Emphasising both the delicacy and the dynamism of “The Line”, both sonically and lyrically it gives voice to a shared sense of displacement, and the strength needed to navigate circumstances that can feel open-ended and unsettled. From the first, elegantly acoustic cadences of the Tool-tinged “I Am”, it’s the sound of being drawn in to the most confidential of endeavours, Katrine’s self-reflective, gossamer-fine lilt searching for a way to deal with past wrongs and focus on one’s own narrative as a path towards healing, as the song meticulously brews up a storm of deliverance. 

For all the space and scope it allows itself, “A Frame Of Mind” is a transformative experience, underpinned by a constant sense of motion and a feeling of one’s way towards resolution, as if new senses are emerging and being tested to their fullest extent. Through “Are You Ready?”s understated chant that ushers in a metallic crescendo, “Bardaginn”’s liberated Norse ritualism riven with tungsten-weight riffs ,the pastoral romanticism infusing lead single “The State Of The World” and “Segla”’s cinematic swells of neo-classicism to the closing acoustic campfire folk of “I Remember A Time”, “A Frame Of Mind” is an ongoing journey of self-discovery, with the organic sensation of unfolding in real time.