The Deer Tracks - "Fra ro raa / Ro ra fraa" (video)
From The Deer Tracks' latest release, "The Archer Trilogy pt. 2", out now via .
Label: The Control Group
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CMJ is giving away a brand new track from The Deer Tracks as a free download: http://www.cmj.com/the-feed/news/2011/06/exclusive-download-deer-tracks-%E2%80%9Cdark-passenger%E2%80%9D/
The band's next release, "The Archer Trilogy, Pt. 2", comes out July 5 via .
Free Scandinavian music samplers at Amazon
has a 5-song Scandinavian music sampler comp available for free download at Amazon: http://amzn.to/iw9NN9
Not the usual selection of just-Swedes either, this collection has stuff from The Deer Tracks, Figurines, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, El Perro Del Mar and I Was a King. And likewise, by perusing the top free downloads chart, I also see that has a label comp for download as well: http://amzn.to/lk0RPs
Featured artists on that one include Delay Trees, Oh No Ono, Regina and The Concretes.
New Figurines album in mid-April
The Line of Best Fit reports on the new album from Danish indie act Figurines called "Hanging from above", due out April 12 via : http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/2011/03/figurines-hanging-from-above/
Figurines
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Morningside Records/The Control Group
As with "When the deer wore blue", the dreamy echoes of '60s pop continue on through Figurines' self-titled release, coloring the album in nostalgic, sun-bleached tones and textures and casting strange shadows across their music. As fans of the band have come to expect, the swells of the compositions, both with respect to instrumentation and emotion, are layered and intricate, but not inaccessible or pretentious. The bright, clean production is subtly subverted by pop songs that are not reliant on guitar or vocal hooks, and tracks that evoke a summery feel often turn from the sun to explore the shade created by so much light -- "Have you always been someone that you've never been?" This perspective does not feel staged, as if the songs were deliberately crafted to include funhouse mirrors distorting the images reflecting back out of the music -- there is a natural, effortless flow to the compositions, even when a track turns corners that, at first, take the listener by surprise. On "We got away", what opens as a "Pet sounds"-inspired track evolves into something else: a love song that feels distanced from its central premise, and painfully aware of this detachment, as the subtle, clever refrain "I love her like a lover should love her" suggests. There is something this band brings to the table that so many other acts just cannot, an originality that is hard to pin down, but is nonetheless on full display on "Figurines".
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
The Deer Tracks sign with The Control Group
Swedish act The Deer Tracks have officially signed with US label and will be releasing a trio of releases this coming year called "The Archer Trilogy". Expect EP part one to be released in March/April to be followed by two albums later on.