5 things that inspired Smerz’s dreamy album, Big City Life

With tracks fluent in strings and synths, you would think Norwegian duo Smerz were born reading sheet music and raised on lullabies of arpeggios, but when asked if they play many instruments, Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg reply almost simultaneously, “no, we play the computer”.

With the computer as their instrument, emotion is the software that their postmodern pop album, Big Cityhellip;

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