The Danish pianist Eik Octobre, born Emil Skovsgaard Christensen, has been navigating the precipice of his sentimentality for several years now, and it is intimately linked to his creations. His pieces are steeped in melancholia but their mellow piano melodies often get them demoted to background music. Anna Stich spoke to the artist about his relationship to emotions and his musical genre.
We're debuting her hypnotizing new music video for "Overgrown" today and placed the song in our newcomer playlist along with fresh picks from Hello Forever, PYNKIE, Fooks Nihil, Theodora and other talents you should know about.
