Name: The Unreliable Narrator
Brand: Oyvind Holm

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

HOLM3CGR115

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Colour

black

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

9008798306077

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Oyvind Holm

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Crispin Glover Records

In literature an unreliable narrator is a narrator that can't be fully trusted, a character whose credibility for some reason or another has been compromised. When I chose to use the expression as the title for my new album, I did so because I felt it resonated with me on a number of different levels.<br>First of all, it serves as an accurate way of describing my own lyrical universe, which has always been a mash-up of real-life events and fiction. No one can tell for sure what is real and what is made up. At times, even I find there can be a fluid transition between the two poetic worlds. When I look back on my work, it is often hard to tell where reality and fiction overlap.

Another factor that undoubtably and unavoidably bled into my writing this time, was that I finished most of the new lyrics in the weeks and days leading up to the 2020 US Presidential election.

More than any time before, we witnessed a toxic political campaign that consciously sought to mislead people. And any attempt at raising critical questions and points of view were brutally brushed off and dismissed as fake news. Several political narratives played out at the same time, all claiming they exclusively owned THE TRUTH. A game of smoke and mirrors that for a lot of people made it hard to decide who to believe. Who was the truthful and who was the unreliable narrator of the political game?

The Unreliable Narrator

Music GB