"Dance with me" pulled me in from those first eight bars and didn't let go. Opening track on FEM., the fifth Me & Melancholy album. If this is where the record starts, I'm already sold.
The bassline drives the whole thing, classic eighth-note octave pattern, punchy and relentless, locked into a four-on-the-floor kick that gets into your body before your brain even registers it. Nu-disco filtered through something colder, more deliberate.
Me & Melancholy delivers lead vocals that float reverb-soaked in the mid-to-high register, and how tight the drums stay underneath them makes it hit harder. Then the chorus hits and the harmonies stack and the whole track just opens up… every single time.
This album took a different path than I originally expected. I had planned to release it in May or June, but after my father passed away, working on music didn't feel right for a while. That contrast eventually became an important part of FEM. Life doesn't stay in one emotional place, and neither does this record. The title simply means 'five' in Swedish.
All that warmth and forward motion carrying something heavier underneath. I can't stop playing this one.
This album took a different path than I originally expected. I had planned to release it in May or June, but after my father passed away, working on musicand especially releasing such an upbeat opening trackdidn’t feel right for a while. During the summer I wrote ‘Lost in you’, which brought a colder and more industrial energy into the album. That contrast eventually became an important part of FEM. Life doesn’t stay in one emotional place, and neither does this record. The title simply means ‘five’ in Swedish. It is the fifth Me & Melancholy album, and FEM felt more personal and distinctive than calling it Five or 5. I’ve tried to follow the songs wherever they wanted to go rather than thinking about what an electronic album is supposed to sound like. Some parts are bright and immediate, others are repetitive, raw or uncomfortable. Together, they feel like an honest reflection of the period in which the album was made.
