Artist: Axel Boman & Superpitcher
Title: True Crime
Label: Blurry

True Crime is the first record out on Blurry, the label Axel Boman has just started, and it trails a full house album with Superpitcher called Tell It To The Mountain arriving on 25 September. Boman is Stockholm born, co-founded Studio Barnhus, and has been a fixture since Holy Love landed on Pampa back in 2010. Superpitcher, real name Aksel Schaufler, has spent better than two decades as a core part of Cologne’s Kompakt.

The album has a proper origin story behind it. The pair walked three days up to Sweden’s Helags Glacier, came back somewhere between shattered and inspired, and started writing in that state, with Boman’s account being that the music felt like it was writing itself. The tracklist keeps the receipts, carrying both a Helags and a Hiking (The Glacier).

Neither man is a stranger to working in pairs. Boman has Talaboman with John Talabot, while Schaufler has Pachanga Boys with Mauricio Rebolledo, plus the Hippie Dance label the two of them founded in 2011. On this particular pairing Boman is plain enough: “I’ve admired Superpitcher for decades now. He is a master of suspense, melody, repetition and groove.” Blurry runs its art direction through Laurenz Brunner and distributes via !K7.

True Crime is out now, carrying the full seven and a half minute version plus a shortcut edit. Grab on Bandcamp.