{"id":75939,"date":"2022-06-03T12:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T10:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=75939"},"modified":"2022-06-06T12:31:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T10:31:38","slug":"mercedess-releases-debut-album-casa-fantasia-along-with-lead-single-summers-already-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/06\/mercedess-releases-debut-album-casa-fantasia-along-with-lead-single-summers-already-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedess Releases Debut Album, ‘Casa Fantasia’, Along With Lead Single, ‘Summers Already Gone’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This Copenhagen DIY pop artist has managed the difficult task of mixing her soulful voice with vibrant dreamy production and lyrics with real streetwise attitude. The result is something that has given her the hit single ‘Obvious’ which Danish radio loved and the internationally acclaimed single ‘Back to Business’. Now she is releasing the excellent lead single ‘Summer’s Already Gone’ which sounds very modern Bond in its lo fi production but tells an unusual love story. Not a story about falling in love with a person, but about the love affair that always ends; the affair with Summer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“I wanted to write a song that could represent both the fearlessness of the magical Summer days and the truly blue sadness of the re occuring love story it actually is when Summer eventually comes to an end. I know it’s a heartbreaking, melancholy feeling but it’s also everything I love about Summer.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The song was written in Mercedess’ living room with Danish indie superstar Goss and the guitarist S\u00f8ren Breum and is produced by the critically acclaimed artist Vera. It allows the velvet of the artist’s voice to tumble over the muted trumpets, break beats and flirty acoustic guitars and strings bringing to life the seasonal heartbreak.\u00a0
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The fact that it is about the love and anticipation felt for Summer is almost more poignant this year as we embark upon the first free Summer for a few years. The affair with Summer this year promises to be a torrid passionate affair as we’ve been apart so long but the heartbreak of its end will be felt more keenly. This song will be the soundtrack to the affair for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The single is released on the same day as the debut album from this exciting new talent. Mercedess says of the album: “Casa Fantasia is an album about longing for closeness and honesty. These songs are an escape from reality-a place to feel free and be yourself. Writing it was a personal journey and process to me that hopefully will make space for creativity, art and emotions for others too”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album promises to do just that with the artist’s melancholy and yet warm and dreamy vocals and marks an exciting new chapter for an artist destined to find international acclaim\u00a0 with this collection of music. Summer may come and go but I’m sure the appeal of Mercedess will be perennial.\u00a0
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Copenhagen DIY pop artist Mercedess has managed the difficult task of mixing her soulful voice with vibrant dreamy production and lyrics with real streetwise attitude.<\/p>\n

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