Vinyl Giveaway, April 2025
This month we are giving away School of X's EP Destiny.
Though a solo EP by name, Destiny remains a collaborative effort by nature. School of X’s musician brothers Jakob and Simon Littauer both contributed to the record as a whole, and Copenhagen-based guitarist Rune Risager lends a yearning guitar solo to the lovestruck waltz ‘Heaven’. Elsewhere, Ana Perrote appears as the sole voice on closing track 'Mi Sueño Favorito'. Her understated spoken-word sample provides, in Littauer’s words, “the answer to the confusion and heartbreak in all of the other songs.”
Self-produced by School of X and mixed by Chris Tabron (The Strokes, Kelela, Beyoncé) ‘Destiny’ is assembled from hundreds of musical vignettes, recorded over the course of a year and a half of touring. Littauer brought his “small ideas” back to Copenhagen, and the tension between familiar surroundings and the unpredictable nature of the road went on to shape the whole record. “There’s a synergy between the life I have in Copenhagen and the life I have abroad,” he explains. “You feel like you’re growing, and you feel like you’re opening your mind to other people, and then when I come home I'm able to collect that and wrap my brain around it.“
