May 18 sees the release of II, the eagerly anticipated new collaborative artist album from Norway’s finest, Hans-Peter Lindstrom and Thomas M Hermansen, aka Prins Thomas. It’s been three years since Eskimo Recordings unveiled their debut artist album, the eponymous Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, catapulting the duo into the spotlight, and helping to put cosmic disco back on our dancefloors. Now after various solo artist projects, Oslo’s finest are back – and surely the whole world is hoping for a worthy successor to their ground-breaking first album. The pair originally joined forces in 2003, and have since gone on to run their own labels, Feedelity (Lindstrøm), Full Pupp and Internasjonal (Prins Thomas). Last year saw the release of Lindstrom’s debut solo album, Where You Go I Go Too, on Feedelity, while Prins Thomas has been busy DJing all over the world, remixing the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and LCD Soundsystem, releasing the ‘space-disco’ defining Cosmo Galactic Prism double mix CD and compiling his own label’s Greatest Tits Vol.1 on Full Pupp. Now they’re ready to combine their skills again, and while II retains a lot of the musical ideas of the first album, it’s more organic, psychedelic, live and loose, featuring elements of italo, krautrock and disco, alongside continental space-disco of the eighties – melodic, synth-heavy and cinematic, with arpeggiated basslines set to organic, flowing grooves.
II is out on Eskimo on May 18. Visit www.eskimorecordings.com and www.myspace.com/lindstromandprinsthomas
