Blanco by King Midas
Imagine an idiom of relaxing and breezy synth pop but without any pretence or kitsch. Imagine some mellow new wave sounds done in art pop method or approach. Imagine Norwegian duo with extra division of musicians produced in a high end way. Imagine something that will relax you but not to the point of bitter aftertaste of wasted time.
King Midas is coming with a new album - Blanco and seven new tracks.
Smooth and clean cut art new wave synth pop that you will love it just for the sake of it.
Blanco is the seventh studio album by King Midas – the follow-up to their 2013 Norwegian Grammy-winning album Rosso. The new album is out more than thirty years after the Oslo underground favorites released their first EP, From the Pipeline, in 1994, and the band still consists of founding members Ando Woltmann and Per Vigmostad who share production credit for Blanco.
According to the duo, Blanco is an album about emptiness, partly inspired by Belgian cold wave music from the early 1980s, by the noise cancellation in BMW models from 2023/24, by New Age as a concept, by the novel Lanzarote by French author Michel Houellebecq, by Rod Stewart on his way home from a party in the wee hours and by yuppie Scandinavian businessmen in all forms.
Blanco marks a brand new start for King Midas – a tabula rasa, a blank slate – where all methodology, instrumentation, composition and production are untried ground, and all paths have been trodden anew.
credits
releases April 17, 2026
PRODUCED IN EEC BY ANDO WOLTMANN & PER VIGMOSTAD FOR KMI
WRITTEN, ARRANGED AND PERFORMED BY KING MIDAS except:
“Look” written by Fritzner/Martin/Vigmostad/Woltmann
“Blaupunkt” written & produced by Gurrik/ Vigmostad/Woltmann
“Infinite Sadeness” written by Vigmostad/Winther/Woltmann
RECORDED AND MIXED BY PER VIGMOSTAD at Bryn Ballroom IV, Oslo, Norway
MASTERED BY JULIA BORELLI, Berlin, Germany
ART DIRECTION: EARL McNORTH
POOL PHOTO: NICK ALEXANDER
BACK COVER PHOTO: CHRISTIAN OLSTAD
A&R: MICHAEL JONES
Saxophone A4: Katoo Møster
Glass A4: Stephen Martin
Electric guitar A4: Hansi Fritzner
Backing vocals B1: Earl McNorth
Electronics B2: David Gurrik/Human Inferno
Flutes B3: Ivar Winther
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