Copenhagen trio Less Win's "Rituals" is a thunderous piece of post-punk noise

Combining post-punk with more classical instruments such as piano and saxophone, Casper Morilla (guitar, vocals), Patrick Kociszewski (bass, vocals) and Matthew Moller (drums) formed in 2011 and have toured with fellow Danes Iceage, Yung and First Hate - just to give you some idea of the intensity and integrity in Less Win's music.

There's elements of Mission of Burma - the band's closest analog - in "Rituals"; it's all low-slung bass, focused drumming and angular riffing, while Morilla's vocals add a lighter touch to the track via his tuneful croon. But the ultimate feeling is one of impending threat, like Less Win are just about keeping it together.

Of the stark video, drummer Moller says “The dancer is our friend Klara - a performance artist here in Copenhagen and a musician in her own right. The clip was filmed in the soon-to-be closed Cast Collection at the National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen. The room is quite stunning as it contains a chaotic mish-mash of plaster casts of artwork spanning the last 2000 years or so of art. The idea of a dancer performing a piece to accompany the song - her performance being a 'ritual' in itself - reinforces the themes behind the lyric; the idea that people repeat things, perform tasks and make personal decisions that become so ritualised that they lose any objective meaning. They become force of habit. For her to be dancing amongst art that in itself embodies an ideal of religion and culture, divinity and other human rituals is heavily ironic and humorous to us.”

Less Win's debut album TRUST is due June 17 via The Big Oil Recording Company, and you can watch the video, beautifully filmed by fellow Danish musician Emma Acs, for "Rituals" below.

Less Win are on tour in June visiting Chameleon Arts Cafe, Nottingham (22nd), The Lock Tavern, London (24th) and The Blue Moon, Cambridge (26th)