Norwegian art pop duo Smerz return to London presenting their Big City Life album as part of Italy’s C2C Festival’s 25th anniversary.

Smerz is the duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg, based in Oslo and Copenhagen. They recently released Big City Life, a fabulous and melancholy record that earned widespread critical acclaim. Using collages to capture moments of everyday life and dreams, Smerz tell stories lived and imagined—of apathy, loneliness and internal monologue, love and friendship.

Smerz operates at the intersection of genres, drawing inspiration from compositional techniques in classical music, the experimentation of computer music and the immediacy of pop music, in the palettes of girly existentialism.

Support comes from Felicity J Lord.