Photo by Mattias Albinsson

Last month Swedish outfit Hey Elbow dropped their single ‘Missit’, a moody and cinematic slice of indie that was not only experimental, but musically towering. The trio have now returned with their latest offering ‘Nurture/Aptitude’. Whilst a nocturnal blanket lay above the charging production, the band manages to infuse a sense of pop without losing their core sound. Atmospheric with the feel of a score to an epic film, ‘Nurture/Aptitude’ is another utterly brilliant recording from the promising band.

Regarding the track, Hey Elbow mentioned:

“‘Nurture/Aptitude’ is as close as we’ve come to writing a ‘catchy’ pop song. The starting point was a loop we recorded in our rehearsal place. The loop started life as a vocal harmony we thought we’d lost when a coffee cup was dropped on a microphone during the recording process. A few months later in the studio the loop suddenly re-appeared. It was the frame we needed for our first pop song. We rebuild the central structure into an elongated introduction followed by an ambient outro and slowly it became a Hey Elbow song.”