⭐𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖 𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝟐𝟏 & 𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐅𝐀𝐍 𝐎𝐋𝐒𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐉 𝐌𝐀𝐆 𝐄𝐒𝐏⭐

𝐒𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤, '𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱'.
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 21 and 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘶𝘮, '𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥'. 𝘛𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 (𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴) 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘶𝘰, 𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘹 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘴.

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🔸𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐚𝐬 '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠', 𝐚 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐭. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 '𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱'?
🎤 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: We like the way it starts with our string quartet mixing with the synths... And also because of the video... It has been recorded during 2 years in 4 countries and has direct and indirect messages. But almost all the songs on 'Complex' will be released as singles and will also have music videos.

🔸𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞?
🎤 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: As we still live and work in different cities like London and Madrid, we needed the technology to create music together. It also gives us a lot of opportunities within the sound, which are coupled with "timeless" instruments like the quartet sound.

🔸𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧. 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦?
🎤 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: Sure! There is quite a lot of this on the album (laughs). What unites them all is the mixture of string instruments. I think strings, wind instruments or even church organs are part of the message along with the lyrics... They complete them!
🎤 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: It's all part of our musical world where we invite the audience to escape, if only for a while! (laughs).

🔸𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭, 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐚𝐲?
🎤 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: There is a clear evolution of the band. Last year we created "Made for humans" - our second band together - to create slower and more instrumental music. This makes 'Complex' and us in Digital 21 and Stefan Olsdal as a band even more defined, it has also opened more doors for us than we imagined! Personally... What I always feel is a lot of desire to start the next one and 'Complex' has definitely multiplied that desire.
🎤 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: The process of creating an album serves as inspiration for what follows. Only in the studio with the quartet and synths we open up new possibilities and ideas to try out. The pure sound of the strings takes us to a certain world and the electronic elements... to another! This is the combination we are interested in! (laughs)

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🔸'𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫' 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 '𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱'. 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 -𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜- 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐈𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐬𝐠𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞?
🎤 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: As you well remember, with 'Inside' we did 'Rusty Nails' by Moderat but brought to our style thanks to the string quartet. Now with 'Complex' we felt that the single 'Over' was the perfect song to transmit certain emotions with the electric piano and again, this accompaniment with the strings.
Another curious fact: The album 'Inside' kicked off with the collaboration of the Icelandic Margrét Rán and likewise, within 'Complex' there are 2 songs with another singer from the Nordic island country, Katrína Mogensen. We both love Iceland! (laughs).
🎤 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: Every song comes out as a single from this album, for a better presentation of the album. 'Over' gave us a chance to do something slower and with more space in contrast to other tracks like 'Rebellion' or 'Together'.

🔸𝐈𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬?
🎤 𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: From that war to the search for the engine of our lives and the desire to escape from everything at times. There are many feelings captured in the album. What unites them is the music, the string or the synths... It's like a journey... We have also tried to reflect the energy of the live performance. The combination of the quartet with the synths, bass, drums or vocals is what captures the energy of the live performance.
🎤 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: We keep searching for what unites us within the chaos and being aware of the noise around us. We try to find what is really important... And that is an unstoppable quest!

🔸𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐩𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐥 (𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏) 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬?
🎤𝐃𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝟐𝟏: After recording each album I lock myself up for a while to paint... On the first album there was one painting per single. On this second one all the singles are a fraction of a painting which is the album cover... Particles of Complex. The whole painting will come out with the album.
𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐥𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐥: Miguel is a great artist who has not only carried out this artistic part of the album but has been in charge of each and every one of the new videos of the album.
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝑫𝒋𝑴𝒂𝒈 𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏, 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒚.

⭐𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 '𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑥' 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 21 + 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑓𝑎𝑛 𝑂𝑙𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑙 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝐷𝐽 𝑀𝑎𝑔 𝐸𝑠 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘸:
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𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛: 𝐿𝑒𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑍𝑢𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑔𝑎
𝙾𝚛𝚒𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚝: https://bit.ly/3wUoPTc
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