Nordvest
Grøndal
Suction Records
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2020
Includes Instant Download
LP
11.99/16.99
SUCTION051LP
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Tracklist
1Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Five 4:36
2Scribbles Nine 3:23
3Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Seven 2:45
4Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Eight 4:03
5Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Four 5:08
6Sleepless Six 4:04
7Sleepless One 2:51
8Scribbles Two 3:15
9Sleepless Two 5:32
10Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Six 1:20
11Scribbles Seven 2:56

Suction Records welcomes Roger Semsroth back to the label - having previously released 2 full-length albums on Suction under his retired electro-pop alias, Skanfrom. “Grøndal” (suction051) is the debut vinyl release under a new alias, Nordvest.

These days, Semsroth is best-known for his stark and minimalist techno project, Sleeparchive. The material on Grøndal - icy, melodic, and mostly beatless - is comprised of tracks that were originally released digitally as Sleeparchive, via Bandcamp. The releases were met with general disinterest from Sleeparchive fans, prompting Semsroth to re-brand them as Nordvest, before removing them from Bandcamp altogether.

We’ve chosen 11 highlights from 3 of those digital albums, “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets”, “Scribbles”, and “Sleepless”, for a cohesive 11-track LP of austere, synthetic ambience. Think Tangerine Dream as reinterpreted by Incunabula-era Autechre, and you might be getting somewhere close. While “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets Seven” recalls Sleeparchive, and “Sleepless Six” could very well be a lost Skanfrom track, the rest of the LP clearly warrants a new alias - Nordvest is a new side of Semsroth that we haven’t heard before.