TRALALAS “Winter on the Vine”: A Dark-Pop Lament Shrouded In Analog Beauty

Emerging from the back streets of the Copenhagen music scene, TRALALAS, Morten Alsinger´s latest dark-pop project, has released its chilling debut single "Winter on the Vine," in which he offers a dark rumination on change, surrender, and the unexamined cycles and rhythms of the natural world.

Relying on analog warmth and sparse, cinematic textures, it is as if the track is slowly falling, like the flurries of snow that carry such unconstructed weight of emotion across the period. Alsinger is drawing from his experience spanning several decades, beginning with the gritty electro-punk underground in Denmark and later making electronic productions with VERTICAL.

In this case, he eliminates as much as he can to allow the songwriting space to breathe. The ethereal vocals of Heidi Lindahl (of BlackieBlueBird) take on an omnipresent quality that pulls the track into an eerie resonance along with atmospheric production from Thomas Li. Meanwhile, Thomas Golzen performed guitar/bass, and Francis Nørgaard Jensen played drums with a touch of restraint.

"Winter on the Vine" paves the way for TRALALAS's album next fall (October 2025). Influenced by artists like Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, the single doesn't shout, it hangs. This is not raucous music, but music for midnight introspection, for the necessary acceptance of what must fade away; it may feel like an eternity in a world that is always rushing, but TRALALAS wants you to stop and listen.