“Grateful Dead” is a lushly engrossing track from Simen Mitlid. The Oslo, Norway-based singer/songwriter first caught my ear in 2017, with the tracks “I Don’t Care” and “Vacation.” “Grateful Dead” features a lovely, melodic dual-vocal presence amidst trickling acoustics with suave electric adornments. The “pretending,” hook plays with a vibrant, infectious allure. “Grateful Dead” easily gets stuck in my head with its hypnotizing folk sound.
Mitlid writes the following about the track: “‘Grateful Dead’ is a song about ghosts, both in a metaphorical way and a concrete way. I wanted to write about miscommunication and ghosts became a metaphor for that.”
“Grateful Dead” comes via Mitlid’s forthcoming album, Birds; or, Stories from Charlie B’s Travels From Grønland to the Sun, and Back Again, out on October 30th.
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“Grateful Dead” and other memorable tracks from this month can also be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Best of October 2020’ Spotify playlist.
