The Migrant announce new LP: Share eerily-timed new single "The Hurricane"

The Migrant to release new LP, Amerika, October 25th!

New MP3 (Cleared to post): The Migrant - "The Hurricane"

"One of the most endearing, touching and memorable records of 2010" - Drowned in Sound

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When Bjarke Bendtsen set off from his native Denmark on a journey through America with just a guitar and a suitcase, The Migrant was born. A few years later, after one critically acclaimed album – 2010's Travels in Lowland, a dreamy, earnest, psychedelic pop-folk opus, recorded at a seaside summerhouse during a trip back to Denmark in the summer of 2009 – and following nearly 50 shows across the US with his Austin-based backing band and 25 more in Europe with Danish compatriots, The Migrant returns with its second album, Amerika. Recorded in Fort Worth, TX at the home studio of Theater Fire's James Talambas (who also co-produced it),Amerika is another beautiful episode in Bendtsen's ceaseless odyssey.

New MP3 (Cleared to post): The Migrant - "The Hurricane"

As Bendtsen and his fellow musical sobriquet implies, The Migrant drifts through various landscapes, painting grand scenic portraiture with Bendtsen's raw vocals and layers of pop-folk multi-instrumentation. Departing from the airy Danish seaside of Travels in Lowland, Amerika occupies the spare, vast spaces of the American landscape with beautiful, sprawling, acoustic melodies that faintly evoke America's rich folk heritage. The album is constantly in motion, freely traversing barren guitar solos and harmonized mountains of instrumentation, navigated by Bendtsen's unmistakeably heartfelt, lyrical styling.

With the new album set for its release this fall, the tireless Bendtsen is already back in the Fort Worth studio with Talambas and Travels in Lowland co-producer Mads Hartmann to record a third album, scheduled for release in 2012. With new material written while settled in Copenhagen, the third album promises to be another ethereal creation of The Migrant's wanderlust.

Following the debut of Amerika, The Migrant is gearing up for a tour of the US and Canada later this year.

Artist - The Migrant
Album- Amerika
US Release Date - October 25, 2011
Label - S/R

Tracklist:

01. Molehills

02. Everywhere Yo Go

03. The Hurricane

04. 2811 California Street

05. Don't Talk

06. It's Alright Heart

07. Take It!

08. Why Two?

09. Flight AA71

Press for The Migrant's Travels In Lowland...

"The Migrant’s music is all the warmth you need. Soak it in!" - The Wounded Jukebox

"Sweden have given us the wonderful folk troubadour The Tallest Man On Earth, now we can give thanks to Denmark, because on this evidence The Migrant really could be that good too." - The Mad Mackerel

"if you ask me I believe it is genius in the making" - Indiehere

"a freewheeling collection of excellent pop-folk" - The Portland Mercury

"takes some very simple paths to lead us to breathtaking heights" - The Music Slut

"All-in-all, it’s a hell of a song" ("The Organ Grinder") - My Old Kentucky Blog

"a brilliant display of pop and psychedelia" - FensePost

"a stellar find in the mass of music out there" - The Fire Note

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