Blanco

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.