Artist: The Raveonettes
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I live in Micronesia, a land of pay-per-KB dial-up internet and no Myspace or Youtube. Imagine, then, I'm running down Silver Gleaming Sound Machine's impressive array of e-accolades, barely able to control my excitement as I wait for "All tomorrow's gardens" to arrive by media mail. SGSM it seems, could be the knighted future of Copenhagen, the heir to the last great Danes of pop (I'll admit it), Alphabeat. A Krautrock bent and 60s psychedelia, in my mind, could prove a darker, more rewarding palette than "This is Alphabeat"'s overtly sugary appeal.
In theory. Imagine when I get the album and it plays more as a spiritual sister to Asteroids Galaxy Tour (one more band and it's officially a movement), a faulty electro-Motown update that I can't even dignify with the term pastiche, as the internet connotation of that word is moving ever so slightly towards "encomium" in our nostalgia-driven society. The sprightly percussion and electro-punk lean of album opener "Hawk" -- maybe the only redeemable song on this mini-album -- can't save SGSM from an overall lack of catchy choruses or cohesive arrangements. Typical of a crop of rising pop outfits in Scandinavia, SGSM tries to look in too many directions at once. Here's a nod to Pink Floyd, here's Le Tigre, and let's steep that all in the tinny pulse of turn-of-the-80s Krautrock! Overly smitten critics use buzzwords like "ELO" and "Kraftwerk", and in the process they forgive them for a dearth of palatable songs.
I don't know. Maybe the iPod commercialistas who find these bands great in 15 second snippets will continue to force feed us downmarket ethereals like SGSM in order to heighten the pop-futuristic appeal of tablet-based products. Maybe it's what we deserve. Whatever the case, I'm not nearly satisfied with Denmark's recent pop output. The country of Roskilde and indie greats The Raveonettes, Efterklang and Under Byen, to me, is of late lagging behind its Northern cousins in the pop arena. Whatever. Maybe we'll get lucky and the new Alphabeat album will become the Danish pop savior of 2010. Hah.
- Nathan Keegan
The Raveonettes are working on putting together a b-sides/rarities collection for release in the not-so-distant future. Preliminary tracklist here: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=4263957&blogId=531009062
The Raveonettes' new video for "Heart of stone" is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S26TiEZCTtU
The Raveonettes have unveiled their new video for "Boys who rape (should all be destroyed)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JyvP0xoqoc
Fever Ray, Little Dragon, The Raveonettes and Mew are the Scandinavian acts confirmed for this year's Coachella Festival.
New European dates for The Raveonettes:
02/03 - Sala Heineken, Madrid (ESP)
02/04 - Sala Oasis, Zaragoza (ESP)
02/05 - Kafe Antzokia, Bilbao (ESP)
02/07 - K4, Nurnberg (GER)
02/08 - Gebaude 9, Cologne (GER)
02/09 - Hafen 2, Frankfurt (GER)
02/10 - Manufaktur, Schorndorf (GER)
02/12 - Atomic Café, Munich (GER)
02/13 - Kaserne, Basel (CH)
02/14 - Fri-Son, Friburg (CH)
Check out The Submarine Sessions, a new Danish multimedia site featuring pared-down live performances from a number of artists such as The Raveonettes, Oh Land, Cody, Baby Woodrose and more recorded in the belly of a submarine: http://www.submarinesessions.com/
The Raveonettes will be touring North America later this month:
10/14 - Webster Hall, New York, NY
10/15 - Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
10/16 - 9:30 Club, Washington, DC
10/17 - TLA, Philadelphia, PA
10/18 - Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
10/20 - Paradise, Boston, MA
10/21 - Club Soda, Montreal, QC
10/22 - Phoenix, Toronto, ONT
10/23 - Magic Stick, Detroit, MI
10/24 - The Southgate House, Newport, KY
10/25 - Metro, Chicago, IL
10/26 - First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN
11/05 - Venue, Vancouver, BC
11/06 - Neumo's, Seattle, WA
11/07 - Doug Fir, Portland, OR
11/09 - Bimbo's, San Francisco, CA
11/10 - Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa, CA
11/12 - Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA
11/13 - Henry Fonda Theater, Los Angeles, CA
11/14 - Glasshouse, Pomona, CA
The Raveonettes have announced the first batch of dates for their US tour this fall: http://www.myspace.com/theraveonettes
The Raveonettes have confirmed that their new album will be called "In and out of control" and it will be released on October 6.
The Raveonettes are letting fans keep up with them in the studio by posting demo tracks via Twitter: http://twitter.com/theraveonettes
It looks like Thomas Troelsen (Superheroes, Private) might be producing The Raveonettes' next album: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=4263957&blogId=479277262
Renown Danish producer Trentemøller will be releasing a full-length mix collection on May 18 entitled "Harbour boat trips - Copenhagen by Trentemøller". Featured artists are said to include Emiliana Torrini, Suicide and The Raveonettes
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