Check out the video for "That girl" from the fun Danish indierock act Gravy: [click here]

Podcast: Feel-good summer mix, pt. 2

Gravy
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PonyRec

Starting this record I thought I was putting on a new, and better soundtrack, for "Van Wilder" (or insert any college-based comedy). As much as Gravy borrows from the Pixies (as Avi as judiciously pointed out last week) they still make every song their own with awesome arrangements, the awesome Doo-Wop backing vocals and xylophone bursting out of nowhere. This is just great, fun music that you cannot help but smile and enjoy.
- Simon Thibaudeau

I'm not normally a fan of slacker indierock, but every once in a great while I find a band that I can appreciate. Denmark's Gravy is one of those bands. I can't honestly say that I love every song on their new self-titled debut album, but there are three or four totally outstanding tracks including the mp3 I've posted today. Sure, the melody borrows heavily from The Pixies, but I love the huge, busy production and gratuitous backing vocals. Just check out that call-and-response motif with the trainwreck/vacuum noise and guitar lick that opens the song. That's exactly the kind of playful noisemaking that I adore. Fun stuff.

Download the track "Behind my walls" from Danish act Gravy: http://www.ponyrec.dk/music/Behind%20My%20Walls.mp3

Denmark's Gravy now has their full website online: http://www.gravyband.dk/

Denmark's Pony Records has a new website online: http://www.ponyrec.dk/
The label recently signed Gravy, the new project of ex-The Defectors guitarist Nikolaj Grummesgård. Look for their debut album to be released on May 2. In the meantime, download some demo tracks at the band's website: http://www.gravyband.dk/