Description
Who Do You Pray For
Danish-Faroese singer-songwriter and composer Astrid Samuelsen marks a striking solo debut with Who Do You Pray For. Coming from bands such as De Underjordiske and Deadpan Interference she brings a rock framework. The compositions are grand, orchestral, noisy, and forward-driving, but behind the many noisy guitar layers lies a fragile essence. Thanks to Astrid’s vocals, the instrumental foundation appears just as vulnerable as the lyrical universe.
Astrid Samuelsen is an artist who, with Who Do You Pray For, seems to seek a deconstruction of rock music’s conventions. The form is direct, even aggressive, but behind the attitude lies a porosity—something uncertain within a deliberate movement. It is precisely in this duality that Astrid shines through as an original and exciting soloist, spreading personality into each of the music’s many layers.
Tracklist:
1. Seasons
2. No Time To Forget
3. I’m Not Afraid Of You
4. The Mirror
5. Try Me
6. Who Do You Pray For
Released on the following formats:
LP and digitally on all major platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.).
You can check it out by using this link: https://bfan.link/who-do-you-pray-for
Who Do You Pray For
Who Do You Pray For
1. Seasons
Words & music: Astrid Samuelsen
You’re like winter to me
You bring me darkness and snow
Keep me inside
Making sure my sadness grows
You’re like springtime to me
You fill me with hope
Bring me flowers of purple and lilac
And blue like your soul
You make me sit down
and watch them wither and die
Just like your love
Just like your lies
Just like your love
Just like your lies
Must less important was the you than the I
You are the sun, you bring the stars, you bring the stars
You’re like the sun
2. No Time to Forget
Words & music: Astrid Samuelsen
You leave no time to regret
You keep it thick and wet
Invading my mind
Calling back times
of your body, your body, on mine
You leave no time to forget
Repeat the raids that you lead
Infecting my mind
Tormenting nights
When your body, your body, laid on mine
(You lost control)
Whether the chase be river or game
There’s a time you should start contemplating the darkness in you
It should stop you, stop you
I hope that it would’ve
(You sold your soul)
(You made a new low)
It should have stopped you
3. I’m Not Afraid Of You
Words: Astrid Samuelsen
Music: Astrid Samuelsen, Silas Tingleff
The engine’s coughing, I’m down low
Time is running out, ground is close
Ground is close
You’re gaining on me, in control
You’ll have me cold, but I’m not afraid of you
I’m not afraid of you
Even though you may seem close
You could never get me down
I’m a bird without any feet
And I sleep in the wind
The engine’s coughing, we’re down low
Time is running out, death is close
Death is close
You’re gaining on me, in control
You’ll have me cold, but I’m not afraid of you
I’m not afraid of you
Even though you may seem close
You could never get me down
I’m a bird without any feet
And I sleep in the wind
The senses are heightened
the tensions are high
I think that I’m right about ready now
The senses are heightened, the tensions are high
As we fly
Your gun’s gonna fire
4. The Mirror
Words & music: Astrid Samuelsen
You are other people
Your thoughts belong to someone else
You quote
But other people’s passions
You’re as celestial
As poison and pills
Come no nearer
Reversed Mida’s touch
Destroying
With every beat of blood
5. Try Me
Words & music: Astrid Samuelsen
Bent, broken, at my feet
That’s you in the only way I need
You can drift
You can lie
You can try me
Try
Your tired gaze
Reveals the shame you fight
Bent, broken, at my feet
That’s you in the only way he needs
You can fail
With no rest
Incomplete
As you do best
Scatter my love’s seed
Across your chest
6. Who Do You Pray For
Words & music: Astrid Samuelsen
Dark clouds
closing in on the burning sun of my youth
Killing morning
Baptizing night
Hard winds strip me naked
Steeling all of my prayers
I watch as my salvation is taken
To be thrown into the seas of deep despair
Deprived forever of my air
The air I need to live and breathe
I won’t last a second in the sea
Don’t you believe just for a second that I’ll plead
I’ll stand the strain, I’ll wear you down
I’ll be a queen and you my hound
Dearest lord I have my faith
But not in you, how could I, say,
I’ll make my day and tell me
Who do you pray for anyway?
