Ressed / Falter

GB - the project of Danish musician Gustav Berntsen - releases his new double-EP, Ressed / Falter, via untitled (recs).

Ressed / Falter explores the two sides of GB’s artistry, with the bittersweet guitar pop of Ressed contrasting the winding ambience of Falter. New single ‘Fiction Memory’, lifted from Ressed, reckons with the fragility of recollection over uneasy, pensive guitar licks - GB’s words sketch the outline of a “good hearted baddie”, a portrait warped in sunshine by weeks, months, years spent daydreaming.

Ressed sees GB tap into a swaggering, driving mode, unlocking a new dimension beyond the dispirited terrain mined on last year’s debut Gusse Music. It’s self-assuredness with a melancholic streak, a confidence born from knowing better than to linger too long — to indulge only the briefest glance over your shoulder. These three songs feel like a knowing smile, one last look back before the closing of a chapter.

Smoke and shadows intertwine on Ressed’s all-instrumental sibling collection Falter. It plays like an extended credits sequence, one last porch cigarette framed by a setting sun. This is dusk music: ashtray embers and and slow-swaying plumes, crackles and sighs, slow-strummed guitar and ride cymbals. It’s music for scenic walks home and low-lit commutes, for reflexive sighs and meandering minds. It has no words, but Falter speaks to something worth remembering in wrong turns and missteps.