Lorraine
Taking their name from Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future movies, Lorraine are a trio from Bergen, Norway, who describe their music as a combination of the past and the future. In practice, that roughly translates to sounding like music that was forward-looking 20 years earlier, though possibly with a more melodramatic bent; in other words, they were right in step with the stylish, '80s-influenced electronic-edged rock that was very much the sound of the present when they started making waves in the mid-2000s. Their list of influences (New Order, Depeche Mode, the Smiths, the Stone Roses) is a yawningly typical slate of reference points for a 2000s-era indie synth rock band, but Lorraine wear them well. The laughably archetypal story of their formation, though, is somewhat less hip: vocalist Ole Gunnar Gundersen and guitarist Anders Winsents met in the late '90s when, having both cut school on the same afternoon, they found themselves sitting back to back in the same guitar shop, playing "Stairway to Heaven" at the same time. After a brief stint in an electro-metal group inspired by the Prodigy, the garrulous Gundersen and withdrawn Winsents (a onetime Scandinavian silver medalist in speed walking) encountered keyboardist Paal Myran Haaland drunkenly shouting at a bus stop.
The threesome -- then in their late teens -- began recording in Haaland's bedroom, and soon moved their operations to an abandoned factory 45 minutes outside of town, dropping out of high school to take up residence there for a year, experimenting with styles and developing their chops. They recorded their debut single for local indie Rec90 in 2003, with the epic electro-rock stylings of the Perfect Cure full-length following a year later. Over the next several years Lorraine shifted their musical focus to New Order/Pet Shop Boys-styled synth pop with a series of well-received singles that appeared on Waterfall Records in Norway and first on indie Genepool, then on Columbia, in the U.K, including "I Feel It" (a Top 30 hit in both countries), the Psychedelic Furs cover "Heaven," and "Transatlantic Flight." In 2007 they left Columbia and signed with RCA, releasing "Saved" (a reworking of an earlier B-side) in December of that year.
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I Acknowledge You
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Exodus Records - Hev'nbound Label Group on 14 Jun 2018
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Love Conquers Hate
Miscellaneous - Released by 2781830 Records DK on 16 Apr 2021
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just be EP (raw recordings)
Miscellaneous - Released by Wonderfully Made on 17 Feb 2024
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Grace to Advance
Gospel - Released by Lorraine Dzviti on 28 Nov 2017
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Before We Were Strangers
Pop - Released by Lorraine Music on 26 May 2023
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Hier und jetzt
Pop - Released by TRC Tanit Records on 6 Sep 2019
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Boss Up
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by D4G Entertainment on 1 Jan 2021
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Dieser Moment
Pop - Released by TRC Tanit Records on 20 Mar 2019
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Esti Golanul Din Viata Mea
Pop - Released by Balkanika Records on 15 Nov 2022
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With Flying Hair
Electronic - Released by My Best Friend - MBF on 7 Sep 2012
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Likenobody
Electronic - Released by My Best Friend - MBF on 7 Dec 2012
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No More Tears
Miscellaneous - Released by 3634373 Records DK on 23 Jan 2022
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moments with the King #one
Miscellaneous - Released by Wonderfully Made on 7 May 2024
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