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Harrowing beauty that grips and stirs as it unfolds

Groeni are a three-piece from Wellington New Zealand. Nihx is their debut LP, following up three previous EPs. It is their first release on Berlin based label Project Mooncircle.

Groeni are notable for their rich sonic palette that utilises an abundance of feedback, analogue synths and hauntingly fragile vocals. Their sound is atmospheric and reflective. There is a sense of harrowing desperation that gives them a real substance. Nihx builds upon these themes, taking the listener on into a dream-like state of introspection.

Evergreen stands out as a track that embodies these characteristics. The vocals are of angelic in their beauty, carrying a sense of pain which offers an emotional weight to the song. The backing vocals are haunting and wistful, blending into layers of feedback and foggy synthesisers give the piece a very organic feel. The menacing chord progression repeats throughout much of the song as the different tones swirl amongst each other. It forebodes until surrendering to a baseline that is deep, sinister offering a sense of justification to the preceding sense of anxiety that lay before.

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While these guys have the melodies and vocal ability to make something that could sit on the pop side of contemporary dance music, they choose to explore sonic experimentation through texture, tone and repetition, and that's more than all right by me.

Martyn Pepperell on Groeni

More lush spiritual-folk electronica from Wellington, New Zealand trio Groeni. While these guys have the melodies and vocal ability to make something that could sit on the pop side of contemporary dance music, they choose to explore sonic experimentation through texture, tone and repetition, and that's more than all right by me. The Joel Fear directed video for "Hinde" is pretty beautiful as well.

— Martyn Pepperell, freelance music, arts and culture journalist, broadcaster and DJ, Wellington, New Zealand 

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The video for Groeni’s “Hinde” is as mysterious as it is beautiful.

In a transfixing piece of videography, that at times looks like it could be cloud covering Mount Victoria that overlooks the electronic trio’s hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, shapes blur and move at a mesmerising pace.

Directed by Wellington-based designer Joel Fear, the piece does a good job complementing Groeni’s organic presentation of assured EDM.

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Martyn Pepperell

Freelance music, arts and culture journalist, broadcaster and DJ for Fishhead Mag, Radio New Zealand, The 405, Vanguard Red, Wellington, New Zealand

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Groeni - “Hedre"

More often than not, simple is just so effective and powerful. With “Hedre,” the lead single off their new EP Hinde, Wellington, New Zealand live electronica trio Groeni and emerging filmmaker Joel Fear nail this on both the sonic and visual fronts. I suppose you could call it spiritual vocal techno, but there is a subtle shuffle and wonk going on here that calls to mind the best of future garage, post-dubstep and mid-tempo digital soul. A1 since day one.

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Hinde by Groeni released 01 October 2015 Artwork by Petra Scheuber