Clmd

The Norwegian electronic outfit CLMD crafts heartfelt pop tunes steeped in the soaring rush of progressive house. Launched initially by longtime companions Carl Louis and Martin Danielle before evolving into Danielle’s lone venture, the act has notched repeated successes on home turf, above all with the 2016 single “Dust” that showcases Astrid S.

Louis and Danielle burst onto the scene in 2010 via “The Message,” a cut backed by the Rising Music imprint and picked up in the charts by Axwell, one of the duo’s key influences. They expanded their reach through reworkings of Bruno Mars’s “Just the Way You Are” and Estelle’s “Fall in Love,” issued a 12-inch on Steve Angello’s Size label, launched an independent Sony imprint, and landed major Norwegian smashes with “Black Eyes and Blue” plus “The Stockholm Syndrome,” the latter earning multiple platinum certifications domestically.

After “Wild Men” surfaced in 2014, Louis departed to launch a solo path. Danielle kept the CLMD moniker, now standing for “Create Love, Music and Dreams,” and pressed on with exuberant EDM via the 2015 release “Keep Dreaming,” which spotlighted lead vocals by Jared Lee. Early the following year Astrid S delivered “Dust,” another substantial Norwegian hit that topped the national radio airplay survey. After a string of further singles, the debut album Phases arrived at the close of 2017; the standalone cut “Trouble” followed in 2018, while both “Anything” with Madcon and “Dance” featuring Tungevaag emerged in 2019.