For me, rock and roll confidence sometimes has little to do with volume or spectacle. It comes from bands who have spent enough time in enough rooms to know exactly what they want a song to feel like before a single note gets recorded. Vinyl Floor, the Copenhagen duo formed by brothers Daniel and Thomas Charlie Pedersen back in 2007, have always had it. Their new single suggests they are not about to lose it any time soon.

“I’m on the Upside” is the third preview of their forthcoming album “Balancing Act,” due at the end of February on Karmanian Records, and it arrives sounding less like a promotional exercise and more like a band simply doing what they have always done well. Recorded at Studio Möllan in Malmö and mixed by Søren Vestergaard, the track carries that warm, unhurried quality you tend to associate with records made by people who genuinely enjoy being in a studio together. There is no digital sheen suffocating the room sound. It breathes.

Drummer and co-founder Daniel Pedersen steps out from behind the kit to take lead vocals, and the results are quietly disarming. His delivery has the kind of unguarded ease that most frontmen spend entire careers trying to fake. Bassist Jakob Gulbrandt Koldenborg holds everything together underneath him while Daniel Hecht, a face familiar to followers of The Breakers and Franklin Zoo, contributes guitar alongside Thomas Charlie Pedersen. The arrangement never overreaches. The harmonies land exactly where they should.

Lyrically the song occupies territory that the best classic pop has always known how to navigate: the quiet satisfaction of stepping sideways from the noise and finding that the view from there suits you perfectly well. It is not a grand statement. It does not pretend to be. There is something almost countercultural about a song in 2025 that simply wants to tell you it has found its own way of looking at the world and is glad it did.

Listen here.