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OOFJ – ” Snakehips ” EP

Posted: November 14, 2014 in WE LOVE
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Los Angeles based band The lineup: Jenno Bjørnkjær (music) and Katherine Mills Rymer (vocals).
The background: The “Oof” bit we get – listening to this LA-based duo’s music is like being winded by beauty. But it’s a terrible kind of beauty: floating vocals” just think Lana Del Rey cooing breathily as they find Laura Palmer’s corpse. They’re a couple – romantic and musical: the Danish Jenno Bjørnkjær and South African Katherine Mills-Rymer. They have a filmic past, literally, having met in New York while Bjørnkjær was working on music for Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. Apparently, they bonded “over a mutual love for French synthesizer music and all things Russian” The video to their last single, by making the rhythms and synths and strings in their songs synch together so seamlessly, There is already quite a bit of music out there by them. There’s an album, Disco to Die To, which came out last year, and it’s full of good – which is to say, intoxicating stuff. And already they are working on the follow-up, for early-2015 release: Acute Feast. As a prelude to that album, they are issuing a new single, You’re Always Good,