PREMIERE: Swedish Four-Piece Oracle North Debut With the Sweeping “Communion”

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While we might often associate Sweden with excellent, edgy pop music, do a little digging and you’ll find there is everything from the most experimental of electronic music to the most driving, forceful rock and roll. Oracle North, a Swedish four-piece consisting of Olov Andersson, Andreas Bygdell, Johan Wahlberg, and Lina Öhman sits somewhere between those two extremes, inspired in equal parts by experimental rockers Can and synth-loving duo Suicide.

The result on “Communion” is an intensely atmospheric sound, moody vocals taking center stage over propulsive drums, but the high point has to be when the drums and vocals drop away, allowing a memorable guitar line to unfurl around the song’s midpoint.

Oracle North’s Communion EP is out December 4, with another EP scheduled for next year. Listen to “Communion” and read what the band has to say about their music and influences below.


“I think our music is touching on subjects like estrangement and existential anxiety, which is expressed through some sort of yearning for a more primitive experience. Aesthetically, we’ve been inspired by equal parts Greek mythology; the Dionysian, Apollonian dichotomy and so forth, and the late ’70s, early ’80s DIY culture.” – Oracle North

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