Track by Track: Spielbergs - Vestli

Oslo three piece Spielbergs almost word-of-mouth rise is based of music as a way to escape, which makes the fact new album 'Vestli' focuses on feelings of being trapped all the more of a juxtaposition. We asked singer and guitarist Mads Baklien to run us through it.

The songs on 'Vestli' are all more or less about a feeling that there is nowhere else to go, no escape. You are dealing with issues in your mind - regrets, shame, fear, should haves and could haves. No way out. Maybe you don't like who you are or who you've become. You are stuck with being you. You are dealing with a lot of pressure and noise in your everyday life, and all you want to do sometimes is just to leave everything behind and find a quiet place somewhere to start a new life. But you can't. You have commitments and responsibilities. You're going nowhere.
You carry the place you grew up inside you your whole life, for good or bad. 'Vestli' is the name of the suburban borough in the north-eastern part of Oslo where both Mads and Stian grew up. You can leave Vestli but Vestli never leaves you.

The New Year's Resolution
When do you lose control of something? 'The New Year's Resolution' is about the place where you wonder if you just take one more step, there will be no turning back. You will lose everything and everyone you ever cared for. And then you take that step anyway. And you're OK, you didn't screw up everything after all. So you take another.