Profile: Attrap
Name: Attrap
From: Aarhus, Denmark
Sounds like: Ethereal, melancholy pop.
Listen: Just a word away
Discography:
2006 - House of dreams (Warfare Records)
Links:
www.attrap.net
www.myspace.com/attrap
"Who are we listening to? I like this."
"Attrap"
"Who?"
Sigh. "It's Attrap."
*snicker*
So goes the conversation with my wife every time I play this band's debut EP. She usually never recognizes 90% of the stuff I'm playing in our shared office, but somehow Attrap always catches her attention and forces her to make bad puns at the expense of this site's namesake. The important thing to note however, is that of all the many many bands I'm constantly shuffling through on the stereo, Attrap stands out.
Who are you and where are you from?
We are four young people from small villages in Denmark. Now we live in the second largest town in Denmark, called Aarhus..(where three of us study). But really, it's a joke. Everyone knows everybody anyway. We've all met eachother on the bus. we plan on moving to Copenhagen. More busses there.
What makes Attrap special? And why no drums? Was that a conscious decision?
We would like for our music to be like a trojan horse. Coming slowly towards the big fortress of the pop-industry. The guards (the radio stations) let us inside - we look nice, sound nice. Nothing new, seemingly. But when we get inside the thick and mighty city walls and join the masquerade, we reveal our faces; and suddenly, there is one single band who actually mean what they dream and insist on singing about joy, love, death and the relations between people - in spite that it is claimed to be alarmingly old-fashioned by the industry. I think that is what makes us special.. that we believe we can set people in motion, physically and mentally.
About the missing drummerboy: Let us be the first to brake the ice: All drummers are ugly. All four of us are beautiful. that's why. Drummers also have an annoying tendency to take full controll of the musical landscape. We like the possibility to make a more "rubato" feeling in the compositions. but mostly because they are ugly (ok - except Nick Mason of the Pink Floyd. wow, that moustache!).
How does the music scene/industry of Denmark compare to Sweden?
To be honest, I don't know much about the music scene in Sweden. I'm too busy figuring out what happens on the Danish scene :). Right now there's some interesting things going on on the small indielabels. Our own, Warfare Records, the stars at Morningside Records and Crunchy Frog, but also the crazy people at BSBTA has had some exciting new releases and hopefully, much more to come. I don't know if there are any cool independant labels in Sweden? I think the music scene in Denmark is heading towards something better -more breath-taking melodies. The melodic skills is the main trademark of Swedish music from my opint of view. ABBA, José González, Lampshade and Kent are all in the superleague when it comes to melodies. I envy them. We should collaborate.
I have the feeling, that young bands from Sweden reach a high level earlier than the Danish young bands. But again, I don't know much about the swedish scene, so I'll stop it here.
What is your preferred beverage of choice and why?
Coffee, mostly. because it is one of the only legal drugs that can help you kill time.
And Danish beer. Llots of beer. Carlsberg if we have enough money. I don't really know why. it's something that goes with the Danish culture. Maybe it's because it looks like piss, but tastes much better. Don't know.
If you were suddenly elected to be a world leader, what would be the first thing you'd do?
I, Jonas, would probably send an email to the bully from my highschool with the words: "I told you so."
Secondly, I would invite all the poor people of the world (and the bully from my highschool, if I remember it in my email) into my huge backyard and have a great party. Attrap would play. Kofi Annan would make a toast. Maybe I would give every newborn baby a cello. Haven't decided that yet.
You said in response to the first question that you are in Aarhus to study. What is your chosen subject(s) of interest?
Actually, I'm the only one who doesn't study. Troels and Johan study philosophy and Gertrud studies some fancy art thing. I just walk around feeling very bohemian, reading Danish poetry from the 1920s and 1980s. Smoking.
Finally, what does the future hold for Attrap?
We are working on our debut-album, which will be released in a year or so. It will be a sonic explosion of joyful indie-pop. less mellow. lovely.
We are going to play a lot of concerts during the fall in Denmark and hopefully south of the border. Germany, the Netherlands. The future is a shiny apple and we're more than ready to take the first bite.