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shouldhavebeens

by Tengil

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Alice M.
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Alice M. I won’t pretend that this is perfect, but like many things in my collection it *fills a gap* in my vision of the world, of emotions and whatnot. I also like the fact that it has a very distinct identity while their older album, “Six”, has one of its own, too.
Edit: Over time, this became one of my favorite albums ever. Favorite track: In Murmur.
Jón Þór Sigurleifsson
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Jón Þór Sigurleifsson The vulnerability and raw emotion on display is something I'm always looking for in music and Tengil have got it in spades!

Incredible album and one of 2018's best so far.

Full review: daedricinfluence.weebly.com/blog/album-review-tengil-shouldhavebeens Favorite track: And the best was yet to come.
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Manako What can I say about this album, except that I have been listening to it nonstop through today (release day) and that I'm convinced I'll keep on spinning it for a long, long time... I couldn't help grabbing the gorgeous magenta vinyl released by Prophecy. Seriously, if you haven't yet, go listen to this album, it's the most serious contestant to the best album of 2018 so far, and it's gonna be hard to top. Favorite track: I dreamt I was old.
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Jared This is the first time I've preordered something on band camp. It's like, gorgeous post-hardcore mixed with emo and post metal. Except it retains the positive aspects of those genres, and loses a lot of the negative shit. It's just great. Give it a listen. Seriously. Favorite track: It's all for springtime.
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kaese_nachos It is sort of melancholic and full of uplifting energy. Very melodic, sometimes even beautiful and easy to get into.
If you can, get it on vinyl! Favorite track: It's all for springtime.
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1.
Begin with a riddle that none of us could solve Why does the city of stars still swallow earth for the cold? It turns the air into sparks and ignites when you see, No matter how you allocate or sacrifice There are no guaranties Two paths down ahead Two you can take Make peace in the flames Or drag them with you To the universes edge No one knows what you will see there But everyone knows why you go You and I, we're in prayer For the road, that it holds beneath our feet So hold my hand through the white noise Remember the wounds, missteps are trophies when we're there We'd go so far For that reason I'd take you anywhere Won’t let it be for nothing at all In horizons, bright sunlight, I say I should learn But lose myself in endings convinced this day brings my turn Part of me was always, part of me never came A new place, but also the same You can only sacrifice what you love And then we pick up the pieces All the love we can carry we take And some light is left behind I still keep my visions Of how life will be like for future me One for fullfillment, my own And one for the people I care for But I have one where I'm old And none of this has changed No solace, no purpose Just a lifetime of mistakes And if my sorrow was to repeat itself I woke, To one more dream in the fold How do we know that there's someting to wait for When it all escapes us, our hopes and our hearts Remember us watching that starlit sky You said you would recall forever, I don’t think you did No matter if there's a present, a future Something has left, and it was qualia A color only you would ever know
2.
Down there, in windows open Deeper is blue, and in fresh air is longing For nameless volatilities like the end of a rainbow Some call it “you” And even when the scent escapes me, I'm still lost There with my visions that found me in youth Founded me in youth "These will be the worst years of your life, Better spend them now, than later" So I waited for those better years Promise that you won't die before me So that something I miss is alive Make me the sun and the stars I'm the wind and the rain Take me from knowing that this all could end In a lifetime, a moment, it could be the next breath But it's alright As long as I'm still in the air Down in the canopy The circles came to a close around the sun And as they blew up the sky for the fourteenth time I realised that in waiting for things to change All my fears had come true, as well as all the things I’d sworn Would never happen again It was all my fault, but I could not change I was stuck in being myself down here Like everyone is But even there, at the edge of night I could hear them singing What we told each other forever before About the brighter tomorrow How many of us knew? Only you told me That down here are we, for every year The cards draw, the colors set forever I know I should have waited for you But it seemed okay back then I was lost in the perceived magnificence Of going dead into the night And coming out dancing to the morning light You and I we were bathing in faces With the sun shining from the roof There were songs to keep fresh in their hearts If someone wanted respite for a moment You wouldn't fault them for that would you? Words like "Every dream I have is in this room but i am not" Then everyone cheered I dropped burning liqour on the rug And no one saw you leave From black to blue there in windows open The stars and the rain thought themselves euphoric I know I said I was in heaven then But there's no such thing
3.
And like a film shown Repeated in our hearts I've heard it before And so have you If something is not Then how can anything be? "I want to save the earth I want to show that I'm thankful" Would you, in that case, let go off a perceived significance? Like how age is just a number but still we talk about it, Like when she was 23 and had her first child And I was told it came as a release for her That now at least in her darkest days, she lived for him They measured him in grams To racing minds Living comes in second And all the time becomes less Just like our long lives, with everything in the world to do So now if I say, 31 is the new 27 Does the point come across? I said I wanted to be born in every country And still wanted to know I was thankful In fly ridden kitchens, on stinking floors Where ambitions left me sleeping for so long I could barely climb out of dirty sheets one more year I know was afraid I was wasting it then And I kept wondering if I know now If you were to paint stars would you with silver or with gold? Was I ever there leave it Let it slide Down, like To where you let in the light Like the ghost I am one of elses dream My fathers My teachers My lovers Shoes to fill Wishes to uphold I'm always so scared I'm always so scared to look
4.
saudade
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I slept so deep, that my heart it tried a new lie When we all go we choose what we bring with us It's a lovely lie The price of living we learn in the death of beginning, No matter the noise, sever passing we never would I took a breath of never-ending light I'm keeping it down in my lungs forever It feeds to the love, the stars in my blood That's how I'll be young I would love to say it got stuck in my head And gave me profound sleeplessness But in hours I could think about everything Just like the day before So the trunkless kings of desert carried on There was overcome, somewhere at nights end We burned love down to ash and blisters All for when I took a breath of never-ending light I'm keeping it down in my lungs forever It feeds to the love, the stars in my blood I wish I didn't know And in the wreckage of summer, I found that breath Cleaning out your youth room Two souls on the best of days Cracks hid your face, as if to remind me That fires die, and you won’t be here Even that perpetual flame had to die Like stars do
6.
Jag pratade med en vän en gång, Som berättade att när man tar E, Så skapas det en sån endorfinstorm i hjärnan Att den förbränner mer än vad den normalt gör Under en hel livstid Jag minns hur hemskt jag tyckte det lät Hur skrämnde tanken på att den bästa stunden i ditt liv Inte kanske bara kunde vara oförtjänt, Men att också att veta att det var kemiskt omöjligt Att det blev bättre än så För trots allt, vad kan vara värdefullt Om man inte kan känna att det är det? Nu var ju det här några år sedan så det kan ha varit indoktrinationen som talade, men jag hoppas ni förstår om jag väljer att kalla det för en bättre sådan, i så fall Spola fram ett tag, och jag sitter i baksätet i en bil, och tänker på det där Tänker på vilka känslor som är värda något, vilka rus som är sanna, om de får sitt värde av handlingarna som leder upp till känslorna Jag hade funderat på det många gånger innan Men det var nåt med den kvällen, något ovanligt, extraordinärt Där i baksätet vreds nyckeln till slut om All lycka är tredelad, först känns den i stunden, och efter att den tagit slut så lever den i minnet Och sen när du dör, när du inte ens har dina minnen kvar, så finns den fortfarande där Utanför tid, inetsad i existensen Det faktum att det har hänt Jag var så glad att veta det, Att hur jag än någonsin kommer må efter den stunden i bilen så hade det ändå hänt Det kommer alltid stanna där, utanför tid Det kan inte ens en gud ändra på Jag undrade om det hade hjälpt dig Se dagar lila himmel, brinnande pressade sig ner över ännu en kejsare i exil Du, som hade lovat att komma tillbaka Innan alla gråhåriga spöken hade skridit in mellan de yttersta stammarna Till där träden är ett med skuggorna Innan du spridit dig själv för vinden Fast så mindes jag till slut de där orden, tillsammans med en fot på fönsterkarmen "Det var alltid mer för uppenbarlesen än för vad det egentligen stod."
7.
In Murmur 05:38
Why is it so hard Remaining in moments? Like reliving the promise made It seemed weightless just hours later Gods made us so From two-faced smiling, damage hiding ecstacy To sinking frost But the festival is still on, And the artist plays the town square with an orchestra There's light there with her earth-fueled waves A ghost who forgot he is dead dances under a starlit sky With the dreams found in youth from hundreds around There like a movie, ending To the sounds of what could have been Joined hands, counting down from ten In deafening noise You know when A promise to be better Another spring, another summers end Night again And something's missing Sleepless, careless Immersed in bliss And tripping, time always slipping Call to me Sing "we are debris" From a dead age, long gone So maybe we should swallow the poison And go, go back to bed There's nothing for us anyway Just a pulled down shade For the life you should trade To be a drop in an ocean We could never make Still there In murmur At the edge of night I decided I could do this Forever, like we sang

about

Swedish post-hardcore band Tengil is a constellation of musicians playing atmospheric, experimental heavy music that is at once nostalgic, quasi-symphonic and spiritually violent. The band tabs itself as "a spiritual task, an impulsion to through music tell the story of moments passing you by, the longing to live and die at the same time, to always be both among and in flames." Despite its young age, Tengil as a collective has already performed over 50 concerts across Europe and released the full-length album "Six" (2015) as well as a slew of EPs and singles. The band's Prophecy debut is titled "shouldhavebeens".

"'shouldhavebeens' tells the story of two friends, three New Year's Eves and one longing greater than life," says the band. The record aims to speak about nostalgia, saudade, mental illness, decadence, the promise of tomorrow, and how our collective views of future themselves determine who we turn out to be.

Tengil's eye-opening musical style has developed from raw hardcore to an almost heavenly wall of aggressive sound which takes center stage on "shouldhavebeens". Commanding a mind-bending and dynamic meld of hardcore, rock, blackgaze and melody, Tengil weilds its wide-reaching range over varied tempos, electronics, and occasional pop moments executed with a raw energy that suggests a mash up of Dillinger Escape Plan and Explosions in the Sky. Although its delivery and musical approach is very different, the inherent self-confidence and captivating creativity that Tengil shows on 'shouldhavebeens', calls for comparison to Alcest and its legendary debut "Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde".

With flowing grace and force of conviction, Tengil's lush layers of sound crush and caress in equal measure. Explosive, angular, powerful and enlightening, "shouldhavebeens" propels the listener across multiple musical boundaries.

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credits

released April 13, 2018

Written by

1. Sakarias Westman
2. Sakarias Westman, Pontus Carling and Karl Hauptmann
3. Sakarias Westman, Karl Hauptmann and Tobias Jensen
4. Sakarias Westman
5. Sakarias Westman, Pontus Carling, Karl Hauptmann and Tobias Jensen
6. Sakarias Westman and Karl Hauptmann
7. Sakarias Westman and Karl Hauptmann

Lyrics by Sakarias Westman

Tengil would like to thank Kulturungdom for all help with recording this album

Engineered, Recorded and Mixed by Kim Ruiz at Nacksving Studios in Gothenburg
Mastered by Isak Edh at Nacksving Studios in Gothenburg

Art Direction & Design by Sakarias Westman, Pontus Carling and Karl Hauptmann
Photography by Jakob Ekvall
Editing by Jakob Ekvall and Tengil

Thank you

Kim Ruiz, Isak Edh, Jakob Ekvall, Mattias Tell, Tobias Backman, Martin Koller, Gustaf Uicic,
Vile Hartman, Kimiyuki Nishita, Johannes Andersson, Alexandra Bäckstrand, Sushi, Kasper, Kim Gunneriusson,
Christian Mattesen, Curt, Sanna Lassinniemi, Emelie Lihav, Alicia Asp, Tilde Hellström, Miso, Dominik Lalka, Lisa Tausz, Maso, Lisa Andersson, Mattias Frisk, Alexander Olsson and the rest of our friends and families

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Tengil Sweden

Sakarias:
Vocals, Noise
Pontus:
Guitar, Noise
Kalle:
Bass, Noise
Tobias:
Drums, Visuals

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