The Norwegian duo Smerz, consisting of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg, operates between the intimacy and the experimental. Based in Oslo and Copenhagen, they create sonic collages of everyday moments, inner monologues, and dreamlike states. Apathy, loneliness, friendship, and love are woven together into fragmented narratives where the personal becomes poetic.

Smerz works with a genre-defying approach, merging compositional techniques from classical music with computer-based experimentation and the immediacy of girly pop existentialism—filtered through an aesthetic that balances the fragile and the futuristic. Their sonic universe is shaped by contrasts: synthetic and organic, tender and alienating, concrete and dreamlike.

Their catalogue includes critically acclaimed releases such as the debut album Believer, the EPs Have fun and Okey, the pop project ALLINA, and the choral work Tidligere den dagen, created in collaboration with the vocal ensemble GAEA. Released on labels like XL Recordings, Escho, and their own imprint Shopping, their music reflects a constant search for new ways to think and feel through sound.

Smerz is not just a duo, but a world of its own placeless atmosphere where reality and fantasy blur into fleeting and seductive artistry.