When Saints Go Machine
- bizzarre
- Aug 29
- 2 min read
When Saints Go Machine break free from hyper-digital reality on upcoming album ‘Greatest Escape’ & share lead single ‘Ice Rink’.
After more than 15 years of carving out their own genre-fluid electronic sound within Nordic music, Copenhagen-based trio When Saints Go Machine enter a new era, taking a surprising turn by abandoning their signature digital palette in favor of something raw, human, and hand-played.
On their upcoming seventh album, ’Greatest Escape’, everything you hear, from instruments and vocals to textures and tones, has been created by people the band has formed deep personal ties with over the years. It’s an album that rejects the algorithm in favor of the organic and the real.
“There’s something magical about experiencing something for the first time. A kind of naivety we want to celebrate. It’s a fight for imagination. To keep it untouched and preserve the force it needs to develop. These are the moments we immortalize when hands create together. It’s an escape from the calculated. A charge forward. A spirit defending itself,”
says frontman Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild.
That spirit comes into full focus on the new single ’Ice Rink’, a luminous, emotionally charged track shaped by Vonsild’s intimate vibrato and ethereal vocals, while the dreamlike production from Jonas Kenton and Silas Moldenhawer captures the feeling of ecstatic, life-altering memories.
When Saints Go Machine have already offered a glimpse of what’s to come with the widely acclaimed double single ’Chainsaw / Trying’ and the spring psych-pop track ’Co-Star’, both receiving heavy rotation on Danish national radio.
The trio’s new sound has also attracted significant international attention from outlets such as HUNGER (UK), COLORS (DE), KCRW (US) and KUTX (US).
The release of ’Greatest Escape’ on October 24 will be followed by a nationwide tour across Denmark, culminating in the band’s biggest indoor show to date at Poolen in Copenhagen on November 21.
