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Ressed / Falter explores the two sides of GB’s artistry, with the bittersweet guitar pop of Ressed contrasting the winding ambience of Falter. New single ‘Fiction Memory’, lifted from Ressed, reckons with the fragility of recollection over uneasy, pensive guitar licks - GB’s words sketch the outline of a “good hearted baddie”, a portrait warped in sunshine by weeks, months, years spent daydreaming.

GB shares: “‘Fiction Memory’ is built on top of a 4 bar loop cut out of a long improvisation between four musicians. You hear it in the drums, bass and guitars. The songs on my last record Gusse Music, didn’t change a whole lot, I was into repetition and how I seem to find melancholy in the infinite - stretching these moments and building songs on top of them. This time I felt like working with a sense of progression or change. I wanted to make something fun and hopeful, something ultimately uplifting.”

Ressed sees GB tap into a swaggering, driving mode, unlocking a new dimension beyond the dispirited terrain mined on last year’s debut Gusse Music. It’s self-assuredness with a melancholic streak, a confidence born from knowing better than to linger too long — to indulge only the briefest glance over your shoulder. These three songs feel like a knowing smile, one last look back before the closing of a chapter.

Smoke and shadows intertwine on Ressed’s all-instrumental sibling collection Falter. It plays like an extended credits sequence, one last porch cigarette framed by a setting sun. This is dusk music: ashtray embers and and slow-swaying plumes, crackles and sighs, slow-strummed guitar and ride cymbals. It’s music for scenic walks home and low-lit commutes, for reflexive sighs and meandering minds. It has no words, but Falter speaks to something worth remembering in wrong turns and missteps.

Drawing on back cover and title “Falter” by Frederik Tøt Godsk