…Big city life, the fabulous and melancholy new album by Smerz, distils this feeling into a potent moonshine. It’s romantic and itchily excitable music — a mixtape for the long train ride into the city and the delirious cab home, to hum at your retail job while you’re waiting to clock off — and it strikes, immediately, as Catharina Stoltenberg and Henriette Motzfeldt’s gesamtkunstwerk, a record that synthesizes the fright-night beats of 2018’s Have fun with the contemporary classical experiments of Believer and Før og etter and the arch electroclash of last year’s Allina.
On Big city life, all those paths twist together, creating dazzling formations: lush trip-hop torch songs, swaggering electro grooves, dance tracks that sound like Liquid Liquid blasting into…

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