Smerz

Underground dance music styles such as techno and footwork, along with field recordings, chamber music, and an out-of-joint approach to pop-flavored R&B, inform the sound of Smerz. The Copenhagen-based duo established their shapeshifting sound with two EPs before making their full-length debut with Believer in 2021. Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt were involved with music as youngsters and attended high school together in their native Oslo, Norway, but they didn't collaborate with one another until they relocated to Denmark to attend the University of Copenhagen...