Kolonien - "Time Will Tell" (Official Music Video)

Kolonien is a four-member family band from Sweden that has been one of the leading voices of the Swedish folk revival for over a decade. With a sound that blends acoustic roots music with anthemic, sing-along pop, Kolonien has a fresh, appealing sound that brings multiple musical worlds together.

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To announce their signing with the Cumbancha label and the upcoming release of their new album "Till Skogen" (which is scheduled to be out in early 2022), Kolonien presents the first single and music video from the project. The song “Time Will Tell” offers a rousing call for environmental accountability and action against climate destruction, couched in catchy melodic hooks.

Kolonien's lush vocal harmonies are reminiscent of Fleet Foxes, their Nordic folk-pop sound might remind some listeners of Of Monsters and Men, and their hipsters with strings vibe makes them Sweden's answer to Mumford & Sons.

At the same time, Kolonien's music and inspirations are deeply rooted in the Swedish folk tradition as well as the natural environment and progressive philosophies of the alternative-lifestyle community where they were born and raised.

Kolonien is made up of brothers Erik and Arvid Rask, their cousin Anna Möller and their childhood neighbor, and “brother from another mother,” Mischa Grind. The members of the band were raised in and around Järna, a community south of Stockholm that is known as a back-to-the-land destination for hippies, progressives and people seeking an alternative lifestyle. While they had been making music together since childhood, the band formally came together during a music festival in Tanzania in 2010. Since then, they have toured extensively across the world and released a number of well-received albums and EPs.

According to Eric Rask, the first single from the new album “grew out of a frustration I often feel around the constant nitpicking concerning people’s differences and shortcomings. We are all incomplete and if we are to get somewhere and change something, we need to put more focus on what we have in common and focus less on who is doing right or wrong. Social change requires that many people choose to go in the same direction, and for that to happen there must be a positive enthusiasm. One thought that has been in the back of my mind is a slogan we used for a performance about climate change that we did as teenagers: “It should be fun to save the world!”


TIME WILL TELL LYRICS
They’re pointing my way

I wake up like I’ve always done
I drink my coffee a day on the run
Pulling out money from threads that I’ve spun
Follow in the patterns of my mothers and fathers before
I run the streets that I know too well, oh
Falling apart, I fell.

This sure look like a different place,
I see no trees, see no flowers, no bees, no
All I see is what we left behind running blind
Shallow seas on the rise

The time will come when the oceans rise
The time will come when the children cry out, “Who did this”?
Will I look in their eyes and say?
It was me, point the gun my way

They’re pointing my way

Don’t know how to wake up
Take my coat on and straightened my back, ‘cause
It might not be my life down the line
Is it true when they say there’s no time? No.

You might think we’re a lifetime apart
It might just be that I’m slow in the start
Time is now, want to make it across
Time is now, see the dust, we do not stand alone
And the slow one will later be fast
The first one will later be last

Pointing my way
They’re pointing my way

Let me try it, meet me there
Help me to find the caves we’ve built
Tell me to reach that shore
Leave me to burn
And I will soon be coming your way
Oh, oh, savour the run
Oh, oh, savour the run
I’m coming your way

SONG CREDITS:
Music & Lyrics by Jens Erik Rask | Ville Arvid Rask | Anna Tove Elisabet Möller | Mischa Nicolaj Sigmund Grind
Published by Cumbancha Music Publishing (BMI)Recorded by Petter Eriksson, Studio Epidemin
Mixed by Petter Eriksson, Studio Folkhemmet
Mastered by: Lane Gibson, Lane Gibson Recording & Mastering, www.lanegibson.com

VIDEO CREDITS:
Video filming and editing by: Mohave Media

Special thanks to Vilgot, Elvin, Tage and Liv