Biography
Childhood companions Mathias Sørensen on drums and vocals, Morten Winther Nielsen handling guitar and vocals, Christian Rohde Lindinger on bass and vocals, plus Niels Kirk at piano and vocals, came together in Copenhagen, Denmark, to launch the sunshine pop group Treefight for Sunlight during 2007. The quartet fuses dense vocal layers with sparkling melodic hooks that evoke a contemporary take on baroque pop. Equipped with three lead singers, the ensemble drives every composition toward rapturous peaks of elation and occasionally echoes MGMT through its hallucinatory leanings. Echoes of the Association and the Turtles, the late-1960s California ensembles, surface in the stacked vocal arrangements and core melodic lines that define the band’s bright overall character.
Their debut single, “What Became of You and I,” first appeared on the Copenhagen-based imprint Tambourhinoceros and quickly stirred widespread online discussion as its bright, seasonal pop textures attracted notice from music sites around the world. The follow-up, “Face the Sun,” leaned further into psychedelic territory while preserving sharp pop craft; its accompanying clip, depicting a lunar voyage inside a camper van, captured the group’s playful oddity and helped secure an international contract with Bella Union.
Both singles reached Bella Union’s roster in December 2010, with “What Became of You and I” distributed as a free download amid growing radio exposure. The self-titled album, initially issued on the Danish label in 2010, was reworked for a 2011 Bella Union edition. After three years of development the band recruited fellow Dane Aske Zidore, frontman of Oh No Ono, to oversee production. The resulting collection comprises ten fevered sunshine-pop numbers compressed into slightly more than thirty-five minutes.
Their debut single, “What Became of You and I,” first appeared on the Copenhagen-based imprint Tambourhinoceros and quickly stirred widespread online discussion as its bright, seasonal pop textures attracted notice from music sites around the world. The follow-up, “Face the Sun,” leaned further into psychedelic territory while preserving sharp pop craft; its accompanying clip, depicting a lunar voyage inside a camper van, captured the group’s playful oddity and helped secure an international contract with Bella Union.
Both singles reached Bella Union’s roster in December 2010, with “What Became of You and I” distributed as a free download amid growing radio exposure. The self-titled album, initially issued on the Danish label in 2010, was reworked for a 2011 Bella Union edition. After three years of development the band recruited fellow Dane Aske Zidore, frontman of Oh No Ono, to oversee production. The resulting collection comprises ten fevered sunshine-pop numbers compressed into slightly more than thirty-five minutes.