This Is For the White In Your Eyes

Even though this full-length debut by Danish collective Choir of Young Believers, is teeming with instruments- voices, pianos, synthesizers, banjos, an orchestra's ransom in strings and French horns - it's not the arrangements that dominate so much as the images they conjure. Snow-flecked mountaintops, deserted city streets, ghost-filled churches, a final kiss between estranged lovers - this is the emotional terrain trod by Jannis Joya Makrigiannis and his Choir of Young Believers. This Is For the White In Your Eyes is an album of orchestral indie-pop, but its artistic scope extends beyond melody and harmony.