As a music and sound artist, Nic Krog’s signature is a distinct and volatile mixture of bass-heavy club music and subversive sound art intertwined with spoken word. The artist’s work is characterised by a diaristic approach, documenting mental processes and psychological baggage from growing up as a queer outsider in smalltown Denmark to being an introvert in the world’s hedonism capital, Berlin. Their debut album “Reproaching the Absurd” (released under former artist moniker Misantrop by Opal Tapes in 2021), explored the artist’s enduring struggle with depression while their next release, the audio play “Perfect Pattern” (forthcoming on Psychic Liberation), is a first foray into an overt narrative style, revolving around obsessive and compulsive traits that revealed themselves in the aftermath of the fight against depression. The new work expands the artist’s usual palette with influence from 20th-century experimental compositional music, queer house music from the 90s, and the storytelling of film and soap operas.
Nic Krog is an artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and interdisciplinary art, co-funded by the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
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