Biography

The Norwegian duo Haunted Mansions brings psychedelic warmth and understated confidence to their hiphop-inspired indie weirdness. The band combines old-school hiphop beats, almost shimmering acoustic guitars, textured synths and weird, smoky and infectious vocals to perfection. The songs are seductive in all their gloom, mildly psychedelic and strongly melodic, but most of all just really great. Haunted Mansions have been referred to as a band that «swagger through their psych rock with Quentin Tarantino levels of cool confidence» so there’s that. Not bad for a bunch of regular guys from Trondheim, Norway. Mind you, producer Thomas has been known to speak of himself as a «visionary genius» and singer Vegard as «the best singer he’s ever met»…