Summons

After many years of hiatus, reformed Danish band SUMMONS returns with the EP ‘Past is Now Now is Past’, which in its both grandiose and intimate alt-rock compositions explores personal fragments of the past and how they are seen, understood, and felt now, so many years later.

All five songs on ‘Past is Now Now is Past’ have a distinctive melodiousness, melancholy, and exploratory nature at their core, with forays into more ambient and dreamy soundscapes, as in 'Water', where SUMMONS delves deep into a captivating and undiscovered underworld.

The EP’s lyrics are built on fragments of memories from the past seen through the existential prism of the now-adult individual. The five band members shared a childhood and youth, and in the present, all these experiences come together in a unified artistic expression simultaneously retrospective and forward-looking, as illustrated in the EP's ambiguous title.

‘Past is Now Now is Past’ was recorded live in the studio in collaboration with producer Morten Bue (Diefenbach, Figurines, I Got You On Tape a.o.). Bue captured SUMMONS' energy as a rock band as well as the nuances of the songwriting, creating a resonant, dynamic expression staying true to the band's desire to create an EP that one can feel and be moved by.