Neu Blaue Blume

: Blaue Blume
Based: Copenhagen, Denmark
Listen: ‘On New Years Eve’
Similar to: Wild Beasts

How do you begin to start singing like Jonas Smith? When did he dare to raise his voice to such heady notes and run with it?

It’s like asking ‘who was the first person insane enough to attempt to milk a cow and then drink the stuff?’

Blaue Blume combine acts of lunacy. Strange shapes and untimely collisions that somehow make sense when segued together. ‘On New Years Eve’ is daring, a leap of faith. Initially it’s all about Smith’s falsetto, half smoky, half purred. But then the other members step in, announcing themselves in a grand crescendo that sends an already foolish step forwards into territory the band can’t return from.

There hasn’t been a more outstanding debut track so far this year.