‘Closer’ is a new single from Danish artist Lasse Matthiessen, which he wrote almost two years ago but is releasing just in time for Christmas 2021. “I wrote the song ‘Closer’ two years ago in Berlin in a warm apartment situated in “party street” in the Friedrichshain district with the producer Hannes Butzer... Sometimes when I was away, he used the apartment to paint and he had just finished a series of prints printed with some kind of toxic fluid and the smell was all over the apartment as was his prints.” These artworks and his re-visiting of childhood haunts during the 2020 lockdowns influenced the creation of his latest track. It’s a nostalgic, but weirdly futuristic track that places his unique voice above gritty, glitchy beats that come from drum machines and unique synths, as well as a haunting piano line. -Dan Peeke