Marching Church was previously the solo project of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, but now it's a full-band project featuring members of Lower, Puce Mary, Choir of Young Believers, and Hand of Dust. Their debut album This World Is Not Enough is out on March 30 via Posh Isolation in Europe and on March 31 via Sacred Bones everywhere else.
In a press release, Rønnenfelt detailed his vision for the band: “What I pictured was me in a comfortable armchair, adorned in a golden robe, leading a band while a girl kept pouring me champagne when I required it. This raised the question, ‘What sort of music would go along with this picture?’”
The press release also notes that the album was influenced by David Maranha's Antarctica, Young Americans-era David Bowie, as well as James Brown and Sam Cooke.
Rønnenfelt discussed the album's sessions in a statement:
The whole month of writing and rehearsing and the one week we had in the studio was truly an explosion of ideas. Improvisation, something I have never worked with before, was crucial in the making of this album, considering the loose nature of the writing on some of these songs. The album works because of the band’s incredible ability of breathing life into these, at times, very simple ideas and experiments.
The band features Rønnenfelt, Kristian Emdal and Anton Rothstein (Lower), Cæcilie Trier (Choir of Young Believers), Bo H. Hansen (Hand of Dust, Sexdrome) and Frederikke Hoffmeier (Puce Mary).