Our Song of the Day is Another Kind of Love, the stunning new single by Danish Music Award nominee Ida Wenøe (pronounced EE-da ven-O), which was released earlier this month on 1st March 2019 via Integrity Records, and the first single from her second album The Things We Don’t Know Yet that follows on 12th April (CD, vinyl, download). We also have the pleasure of premiering the accompanying video below which complements the song perfectly. It was filmed by Zarko Ivetic (who is also responsible for the beautiful portrait). Ida’s emotionally moving voice, which is out of this world, contrasts so innocently against what unfolds on screen, a Lynchian Nordic Noir road trip. Genius…
Talking about the song Ida commented “I dedicate this to everyone who’s experienced all-consuming unhealthy love relations. Find yourself another kind of love.”
Ida returns to these shores in April for her third UK tour, including a date at Camden’s Green Note in London on April 24th (more dates below).
With support for Ida’s previous output from BBC 6 Music’s Tom Ravenscroft, Marc Riley & Gideon Coe, and praise from the likes of The Guardian, her songs clearly resonate in experienced ears, blending her Nordic Noir heritage with hints of Americana and English folk. To list artists she sounds like would be to miss the point entirely – as anyone who has witnessed a live show can attest, Ida Wenøe is very definitely Ida Wenøe.
Drawing sonic inspiration from the vibe created by David Lynch in the Twin Peaks Roadhouse when James conveys such a deep melancholy with his simply arranged performance of ‘Only You’, Ida’s lyrics for Another Kind of Love don’t shy from matters personal:
“The song explores the realization that love isn’t something you need from someone or something, but is there within if you know how to find it. I don’t have the answer and I can’t read a book that will tell me, but I know that a life has to be lived, as love has a thousand faces.”
Ida Wenøe Live Dates
Thursday 18th April – Sheffield, Café No 9
Friday 19th April – Cardigan, Small World Theatre
Sunday 21st April – Leicester, The Musician
Wednesday 24th April – London, Green Note
Thursday 25th – Sudbury, St Peter’s Church