Wild and Bitter Fruits is the debut-EP of Quiet Sonia. Blending indie-rock, chamber-folk, post-rock and shoegaze - with inspiration from jazz, techno, ambient and modern classical - the result is a kaleidoscopic, multi-colored, almost mosaic-like listening experience, brimming with details and rewarding repeated listenings. Singer and guitarist Nikolaj Bruus has written, recorded and mixed Wild and Bitter Fruits almost entirely on his own (with the exception of much appreciated help from single bandmates and sporadic professional assistance), learning many things from scratch, and the result is an exercise in an almost dogma-less work with all the control and detail-work that follows.

From the lush melodic and concise pop-songwriting of The Go Betweens, Wedding Present and Hüsker Dü - tightly crafted, direct and forceful with a seemingly volcanic furious power and energy - to the warm reflective atmosphere, longer narrative-like compositional structures and dynamic intricate arrangements of Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis, Quiet Sonia draws on a broad palette of eclectic stylistic influences. At times pitch-black, anxious and somber, at times hopeful, dreamy and majestic. The music, though, is always characterized by an emotional urgency; a search for musical catharsis; a wish for communicating something deeply powerful and moving, from severe sonic attacks and harsh punishing bursts of sound to ecstatic beauty and pure bliss.

Nikolaj Bruus: Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, synths (Juno 60, Korg MS-20), percussion, electric bass, organ, banjo
Frida Rolskov Pedersen: Piano, vocals
Thea Thorborg Pedersen: Violin
Jens Leonhard Aagaard: Percussion (on "This Tender Violence")
Mikkel Trøjborg Fink: Drums (on "This Tender Violence")

Recording engineer: Nikolaj Bruus
Mix/Mix-Bus Processing: Nikolaj Bruus
Mastering: David Elberling
Album-Art: Nikolaj Bruus
Album Graphics: Nikolaj Bruus / Brian Raaby Andersen / Rasmus Jon
Single-Art (This Tender Violence): Anders Bjørn Sprogøe