TRALALAS’s “Ornament”: A Dark, Pop Revival Rooted in Memory, Melancholy, and Analog Soul Album
Ornament, the first album by TRALALAS from Copenhagen, is a project that reflects Morten Alsinger's life journey full of detours, rediscovery, and a rekindled love for the art. This 9, track record is definitely not a comeback; it is rather a recalculation. After the punk, electro scene in Denmark was his playground for the years of his youth, he took a long hiatus for the sake of his family, then made his comeback as one, half of the electronic duo VERTICAL, Alsinger now goes for something much more delicate and touching: dark pop grounded in analog textures, real, life experience, and human imperfections that are deliberately left intact.
Most of the work on this album was done in the producer Thomas Li’s studio in Østerbro over the course of 2024 and 2025. Morten Alsinger brought in the closest people for the music, making: Heidi Lindahl (vocals), Thomas Golsen (bass/guitar), Francis Nørgaard Jensen (drums), with the help of Christina Schmidt Damm and Thomas Olsen as well. Their interplay is what makes the album vibrant, very personal, rough, and at the same time quite powerful without loudness.
An ornament is largely dependent on its contrasts. It's sparse, our songs soft synth hums, murky guitars, restrained percussion serve lyrics that delve into the heaviness of existence: loss, gain, growing old, doubt, and the quiet suffering of unfulfilled ambition. Alsinger qualified himself as "melancholic and micro, ambitious," which is the main idea behind the album. The songs are a kind of work of the artist’s will, though they are not over-refined to the point of lifelessness; they all bear the warmth of analog tape and the rawness of the artist finally doing it without any façade.
The album contains similarities with Cohen in the tragic aspect, with the Beach Boys in the harmonic sensibility, and with Joy Division in the brooding edge, but TRALALAS does not bank on nostalgia. Rather, Ornament is an experiment that looks to the future; a study of what darkness could sound like if it were approached gently. This album is not made with the intention of winning popularity with the latest trends. Instead, it is the work of a patient, honest artist who is brave enough to go back to his core and create without a mask.
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