he is tall.

On June 3 the new playful and touching indie-single by he is tall. - the alias of Copenhagen based singer/songwriter Troels Thorkild Sørensen - is released. It is called ‘snow fortress’ and despite the name the last icy crystals of the winter are long ago melted by the songs outreaching acoustic sound, percussion and trumpet parts. The music is laid-back with a vibrant live-feel and band-vibe that places he is tall. somewhere in between Arcade Fire and Jack Johnson, but it's always the distinctive and expressive voice of Troels that acts as the main core. The radio host Sebastian Saxton from the Danish national broadcasting company has previously said: “I think your style is truly original and I have a hard time seeing how anyone would be able to copy you, which is a rare appreciation to give! So many thanks for your music. I really appreciate it – and I really think your voice is worth the appraisal.”     

he is tall. has been very busy recently. Besides studio recordings he has played numerous live-shows around Denmark as well as support act for international artists such as Tyler Childers, The Divine Comedy and Natalie Bergman. In a live setting ‘he is tall.’ is often playing solo – as a one-man-army with the acoustic guitar and his voice as the only weapons. He really manages to fill even large stages with his persistent presence and his great songs, when he steps out on stage, out in the dark and into the spotlight. This summer he will be playing a series of festival shows.    

Troels adds: “Growing up as a teenager I have been listening a lot to indie artists like Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver and Florence+The Machine, but in the past years I’ve grown to really like hiphop and catchy pop melodies. I think my music has become a mix of what I listened to back then and what I listen to now. ‘snow fortress’ is a good example of that composite musical universe.”

‘snow fortress’ is full of percussion, trumpet and vast amounts of uh-uh choir parts. Behind the extrovert sound of the song hides a very introvert and shy main character, who is singing about wanting to succeed in fitting into the public space that you enter as an artist getting up on stage. Wanting to fit the format so to speak. Does everybody not want to do that? The person in the song believes that the solution is to act as someone else and be an extrovert party animal. It all ends with he/she having to use extreme methods in the quest of transformation.