'The Independent Music Show Magazine' May 1, 2025 | Page 7

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Blue Foundation have cultivated a remarkable and evocative discography of critically acclaimed albums, including “Life of a Ghost”, “In My Mind I Am Free”, and “Blood Moon”. Their distinctive and nuanced sound has cemented their reputation within the vibrant and flourishing indie music scene.

One of Blue Foundation's most well-known tracks, "Eyes on Fire," gained widespread recognition after being featured in the Twilight film series. The song is written by Tobias Wilner and early member and co-founder Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg aka. Sitrekin.

The song's haunting melodies and atmospheric production struck a chord with audiences, propelling the duo to international acclaim. However, Blue Foundation's discography extends far beyond this iconic track, offering a vast and diverse collection of music that spans multiple albums and Eps.

Blue Foundation return with ‘Harsh Love’, a haunting, intimate new track added to their latest album ‘Close to the Knife’. Featuring the ethereal vocals of Helena Gao, the song captures the ache of emotional dissonance, the quiet collapse between two people trying to love through damage.

Written during the same sessions that birthed‘

Close to the Knife’,‘Harsh Love’ carries the same

emotional weight: minimal yet lush, driven by ambient

textures, fractured rhythms, and lyrical honesty.

Helena Gao’s voice weaves through the track like a distant

memory, fragile, questioning, unresolved.

In the words of Blue Foundation’s Tobias Wilner:

“It’s about the moment where you realize love has turned into

something else, something harder, colder. But still, you’re

reaching. You’re trying to hold on. Helena understood that

from the inside.”

Helena Gao also appears on ‘Ecstasy in Space’ and‘

Voyage to the Stars’, but ‘Harsh Love’ stands apart in

its stark emotional clarity. Sparse production, slow-burn

synths, and whispered harmonies unfold like smoke.

It’s not a song about closure.

It’s a song about what happens when there isn’t any

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