With the release of their recent album Big city life, the Copenhagen/Oslo duo Smerz jumped right to the top of a recent class of sherp, exploratory Scandinavian underground pop scientists. Copenhagen in particular has been a hotbed of that stuff lately, and Big city life fits right in alongside recent records from peers like Erika de Casier and ML Buch. But Smerz’s reach extends far beyond Denmark. They’ve attracted the attention of plenty of other artists, including the elusive Sky Ferreira, who recently joined them onstage in LA. Now, Smarz have a new Big city life companion-piece record that doubles as a summit meeting of the duo’s peers.
