Belgian five-piece Whispering Sons announce their new album The Great Calm, out on February 22nd via [PIAS] Recordings. Today they share the brooding “Cold City”, another tastemaker for the new album and something completely different from the almost joyous first single “The Talker”.

“Cold City” is as icy as its title suggests. Describing a desire so unattainable, it feels like a nostalgic song, albeit a nostalgia for something that doesn’t even exist yet. “We settled on the form pretty quickly”, singer Fenne Kuppens explains, “the real challenge was to find the right sounds to carry the feeling of the song.” By layering synth upon synth and adding lots of texture, Whispering Sons created a song that’s small and fragile, but very rich in atmosphere.

The video for “Cold City” is another chapter of the short film “Balm (After Violence)” which saw its premiere at the Film Fest Ghent and at Left Of The Dial in Rotterdam with a special screening and live performance.

Following the dark, expansive power of 2018’s Image and 2021’s minimal Several Others, Whispering Sons’ third album The Great Calm represents a reimagining and rethinking, though this growth has produced a series of songs that are still defiantly and uniquely true to the group.

Pre-order The Great Calm HERE.