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BABY IN VAIN – ” Low Life “

Posted: August 8, 2017 in MUSIC
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Danish-trio, Baby In Vain are set to release their debut album More Nothing later this month on Partisan Records, and last week shared the latest taste of it, Low Life. The track was initially written three years earlier, and recorded as a, “trippy, hard rock kind of song”. It was only after three years of working on other material and experience, that the band came back to the track, and it emerges transformed, and unlike anything the band have done before.

While normally noted for their visceral musical assault, Low Life is a bassy, slowly unfurling beauty, incorporating twinkling synthesisers, muted drum sounds and even some wonderfully scuzzy saxophones. Bringing to mind the likes of Howling Bells, Timber Timbre and The Twilight Sad, it’s easily the most exciting thing Baby In Vain have done to date. Even if all their songs take three years to sound this good, it’ll be more than worth the wait.

More Nothing is out August 25th via Partisan Records. 

MEW – ” Carry Me To Safety “

Posted: April 2, 2017 in MUSIC
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Danish experimental rockers Mew will release their seventh album, “Visuals” On April 28th. You can check out the video for its closing track, “Carry Me to Safety,” .

“I just like how it twists and turns,” front man Jonas Bjerre said in a press release. “It’s a reflection on life and being in a band, what it means to be in a band, dedicating so many years of your life to this thing.”

Although the band usually takes three or four years between records, Visuals comes only two years after 2015’s + –. But as they were touring in support of that release, they found a burst of creativity and began creating demos while still on the road. “We just felt like, ‘if we do it the normal way, it’s gonna be another three or four years before we get to do it again’,” he continued. “If you keep doing it like that, ultimately you make a handful of albums and then you’re ready for retirement.”

They tracked Visuals in Copenhagen, and in keeping with the pace with which they wrote the materials, completed it in less than a year. Bjerre added that working quickly caused them to rely more on their instincts than previous efforts. “Spending less time on it, you can still maintain the feeling you had when you first wrote it, and you don’t get stuck in the quagmire of second-guessing yourself all the time,” he said.

Mew will tour Europe for 10 days in May,

Taken from the new album ‘Visuals’ out April 28th

COMMUNIONS – ” Blue “

Posted: January 20, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Communions, made up of brothers Martin & Mads Rehof and Jacob van Deurs Formann & Frederik Lind Köppen, The band began in 2014, releasing their debut EP Cobblestones, followed by a 7″ & EP. These releases, as well as the forthcoming 7″, precede the band’s anticipated debut album & showcase Communions’ distinctive sound full of transcendent melodies, delicate guitar lines & emotive pop-leaning rock songs.

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Blue makes the most of everywhere Communions have been. And through all of this the stakes have changed, but the sensitivity and craft with which the band takes risks has bloomed. An eloquence now shines through, and you can take it or leave it. Discarding some of the moodiness found in their previous recordings, Blue tells us what was always natural to Communions. It’s about love, and taking chances, it’s about trying something, and it still doesn’t matter if there’s apprehension—it’s better when you’re too busy to notice. The youthful confusions and exaggerated sentiments are there, though this time it’s captured with a newfound maturity. It’s a change in perspective presented in pop.

AGNES OBEL – ” Citizen of Glass “

Posted: December 25, 2016 in MUSIC
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With the beguiling Citizen of Glass, her third studio long-player, she looks poised to enchant the rest of the world with her dark charms. A classically trained pianist with an elegant and elastic voice, Obel’s melancholic chamber pop invokes names like Goldfrapp or Bat For Lashes, but with a succinct aura of Scandinavian refinery. Where her relatively austere prior outings relied largely on piano and strings, Citizen Of Glass revels in ghostly electronics and voice modulation, even going so far as to bring in a temperamental, late-’20s monophonic synthesizer called a Trautonium. The string arrangements are more ambitious and the composition style is a bit more opaque, but the ten-track set is unequivocally Obel-esque.

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Lead single ‘Familiar’ suggested that the Danish singer songwriter was going to mine her archetypal piano ballad territory with her third album. Turns out it was a sleight of hand, as the album explores a more cinematic and orchestral sound than Obel’s previous work. It is her deft songwriting that comes to the fore as usual though. Lilting vocals, expansive orchestrations, and development win the day.

YUNG – ” Pills “

Posted: December 22, 2016 in MUSIC
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A less-intense prospect than fellow Danish dudes Iceage, Yung’s debut pulled back on their earlier post-punk leanings for jangly garage-rock rasps that sat somewhere between Orange Juice and The Strokes. “Morning View” was downright lovely, and stylish frontman Mikkel .

‘Pills’ is taken from A Youthful Dream, the debut album Yung
released back in June , a new full length album out in June on the wonderful Fat Possum Records. The name of the album is A Youthful Dream.

Yung released their debut LP A Youthful Dream . To set the tone, today the Danish four piece has shared the album’s first single: “Pills,” a dreamy pop-punk lament of an heavily Rx-ed lifestyle.

“’Pills’ was one of the first songs I wrote for this album, and I’ve used the song as a sort of navigation point for what I wanted the rest of the record to sound and feel like,” Yung frontman Mikkel Holm Silkjær explained adding that, “Thematically, the lyrics speak for themselves. People think the key to sanity in modern day society is pills.”

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LiiMA – ” Roger Waters / Amerika “

Posted: December 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Liima is a new band formed by Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö plus Mads Brauer, Casper Clausen and Rasmus Stolberg of Danish act Efterklang.

‘Post-millennial’ – a phrase which in cultural terms resonates like some digital pestilence. Anxiety, bank crashes, moral panics, technological warfare, Thom Yorke – we’re all in the suffocating grip of some inexplicable dystopian crisis and all we can do is keep legging it round that hamster wheel called Life.

Liima feel our pain exuding chronic unease and fidgety emotive angst channeling it through their profoundly affecting groove-orientated cyborg rock. The band, which unites Finnish percussionist Tatu Rönkkö and Danish outfit Efterklang, come off like Talk Talk jamming with Yeasayer; it’s an intense, seductive ride with enough understated euphoria amid the gloom.

Tracks Trains in the Dark and 513 are foreboding grinders while Amerika wouldn’t sound out of place on Achtung Baby such is it’s epic electronic balladry. In short, 4AD have unearthed another gem which will keep you buzzing.

Nordic four-piece Liima have premiered the video for their debut single ‘Amerika’, from their forthcoming album ii, out on March 18th.
The short film was directed by Olivier Groulx and filmed on America’s West Coast in Palmdale, CA. It was shot entirely on smart phones and features all four members of Liima.

TRENTEMOLLER – ” River In Me ” feat Jehnny Beth Of Savages

Posted: September 25, 2016 in MUSIC
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The Danish master of dark electronica is set to return with a new album in September, Trentemøller is back, promising to deliver his much anticipated fourth full length album in just a few months time. Fixion will be the name of the record, and will neatly follow on from where the artist’s 2013 release Lost left off, set to be a “uniquely atmospheric and darkly romantic” successor to the rest of Anders Trentemøller’s acclaimed back catalogue.

Getting the excitement rolling, Trentemøller has also announced that Jehnny Beth vocalist of the band Savages fame will feature on two of the album’s tracks, the first of which, ‘River In Me’.

“I’ve been a huge Savages fan since their debut record…” says Trentemøller. “She has this really intense and unique voice and it ended up being really challenging, and fun, to take that voice out of the Savages’ universe and into mine.”

‘River In Me’ is the first single from the new album ‘Fixion’

AGNES OBEL – ” Familiar “

Posted: July 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Berlin-based Danish folk singer songwriter Agnes Obel returns with a video for her new single, “Familiar”.

“Familiar” is Obel’s first new material since her UK breakthrough album Aventine in 2013, which yielded the BBC 6 Music play listed singles “Dorian”, “Words Are Dead” and title track “Aventine”, and saw the Berlin-based Dane headline gigs at Somerset House, Shepherd’s Bush Empire and Barbican in 2014.

The Alex Bruel Flagstad directed video uses digitised graphics to create a work rooted in a kind of retro-modernism. This approach leads to a video that manages to feel both nostalgic and futuristic at the same time, helping to draw attention to the excellence of the song.

“Familiar” was recorded, produced and mixed by Obel at Aventine-Neukölln and Brand NewMusic-Studios in Berlin. Featuring violin by John Corban and cellos by Kristina Koropecki and Charlotte Danhier, Obel provides keys, rhythms and the song’s mesmerising vocals.

By altering the tone of her voice in the chorus, Obel in effect duets with herself. “Familiar” is a highly welcome return for Obel, sure to draw attention to her work after a period of seeming absence.

MARK KOZELEK SUN KIL MOON – ” Live Heartland Festival ” 10th June 2016

Posted: June 18, 2016 in FESTIVALS, MUSIC
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Mark Kozelek often has a, shall we say, contentious relationship with music festivals. But he seems to be a fan of Denmark’s Heartland Festival, where Sun Kil Moon performed last Friday. Although he doesn’t usually allow cameras at shows, Kozelek let the fest professionally film his set, which means that high-quality footage of the entire thing is now available. The setlist included his first live performance of his cover of Frank and Nancy Sinatra’s “Somethin’ Stupid” from Mark Kozelek Sings Favorites, along with a few tracks from Sun Kil Moon’s collaborative album with Jesu

SETLIST
“Somethin’ Stupid”
“Baby In Death Can I Rest Next To Your Grave”
“Richard Ramirez Died Today Of Natural Causes”
“Carondelet”
“Glenn Tipton”
“Dogs”
“Fragile”
“Exodus”

YUNG – ” A Youthful Dream “

Posted: June 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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We’re pretty partial to most things musical coming out of Denmark these days, and Yung is no exception. It’s essentially the project of Mikkel Holm Silkjær, a Danish DIY dude who’s been behind a drum kit since age four, thanks to his musically inclined father. And while any punk band can throw down some barre chords and do their best Paul Westerberg impersonation, Yung stands out for the moments of sweetness amidst the hard edges of distorted guitars.

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