The David & the Citizens song "Big chill" is a couple years old now, but the reason I'm posting it today is because it's on a new EP, coming out on March 7 via US label Friendly Fire Recordings. I know most of my Scandinavian readers should be already familiar with D&tC, but this EP is the band's first proper US release. Yes, frontman David Fridlund had his solo album released here last year, but it doesn't count - this is The Citizens I'm talking about. I've been a fan of these guys for awhile now (and even included them on my own "Reader's companion" compilation), but I have to say that I like them best in small doses. The albums are good, but it's on the EPs where they really shine. This new collection is perfect at a terse six songs: just enough to get you started without overwhelming you. It's hard to take a band with a long discography like D&tC and distill it down to a manageable size, but FF did a wonderful job. This particular song I'm posting today is one of my favorites. Not only because of Matti from the Bear Quartet's haunting guest vocals, but also because of the excellent video from Anders Weberg of Recycled Image Studio (viewable here). "A funny thing about the video," says Anders, "is that It was aired like once and then pulled back because apparently it was ok to sing the word "bullshit" but when the subtitle said it .. it wasn't .. at least thats the reason we got from the network .. no comment." Anders has also been kind enough to provide a link to the previously unseen director's cut of said video: [click here]
Good stuff - be sure to check it out.

MP3: David & The Citizens - Big chill

The David & the Citizens song "Big chill" is a couple years old now, but the reason I'm posting it today is because it's on a new EP, coming out on March 7 via US label Friendly Fire Recordings. I know most of my Scandinavian readers should be already familiar with D&tC, but this EP is the band's first proper US release. Yes, frontman David Fridlund had his solo album released here last year, but it doesn't count - this is The Citizens I'm talking about. I've been a fan of these guys for awhile now (and even included them on my own "Reader's companion" compilation), but I have to say that I like them best in small doses. The albums are good, but it's on the EPs where they really shine. This new collection is perfect at a terse six songs: just enough to get you started without overwhelming you. It's hard to take a band with a long discography like D&tC and distill it down to a manageable size, but FF did a wonderful job. This particular song I'm posting today is one of my favorites. Not only because of Matti from the Bear Quartet's haunting guest vocals, but also because of the excellent video from Anders Weberg of Recycled Image Studio (viewable here). "A funny thing about the video," says Anders, "is that It was aired like once and then pulled back because apparently it was ok to sing the word "bullshit" but when the subtitle said it .. it wasn't .. at least thats the reason we got from the network .. no comment." Anders has also been kind enough to provide a link to the previously unseen director's cut of said video: [click here]
Good stuff - be sure to check it out.

David & The Citizens - Big chill

David Fridlund is offering up three brand new solo tracks for streaming on his myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/davidfridlund
Act fast 'cuz they'll only be available for 24 hours.

David Fridlund has posted his cover of Nick Cave's "Into my arms" to his blog: http://davidfridlund.webblogg.se/050106123154_into_my_arms.html

Sara Culler, better known to some as David Fridlund's better half, has posted a brand new song for download: http://saraculler.webblogg.se/

Top 10s for 2005: Magnus Bjerkert (Adrian Recordings)

This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Kent
03. Hello Saferide
04. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
05. The Cardigans
06. I'm from Barcelona
07. Franz Ferdinand
08. The Shins
09. The Arcade Fire
10. Coldplay
11. Jens Lekman
12. Iron & Wine
13. Laakso
14. The Decemberists
15. Bloc Party
16. Tiger Lou
17. Architecture in Helsinki
18. The Strokes
19. David Fridlund
20. Sigur Rós

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Sara Culler, better known to some of you (for now) as the better half of David Fridlund, has posted two songs for download over at her website: http://saraculler.webblogg.se/

Sara Culler is now blogging: http://saraculler.webblogg.se/
For those of who don't recognize the name right away, Sara is David Fridlund's better half and appears all over his solo album "Amaterasu".

David Fridlund has posted a brand new song for free download: http://davidfridlund.webblogg.se/311005194057_me_against_you.html

Ink19 reviews David Fridlund: http://www.ink19.com/issues/october2005/musicReviews/musicF/davidFridlund.html

David Fridlund has posted a number of pics from his recent tour of Germany and Austria: http://davidfridlund.webblogg.se/041005202356_some_pics_from_the_germanyaustri.html

New Scandinavian music reviews at Splendid: David Fridlund, Acid House Kings

Music (for Robots) posts a track from David Fridlund: http://music.for-robots.com/archives/001143.html

David Fridlund has posted a demo version of the track "Tears are in your eyes" on his blog: http://davidfridlund.webblogg.se/310805145831_listen_up.html