MP3: Mob - Wait for me
Mob frontman Morten Haaber strikes me as the kind of person that could do nothing except music or some other artistic endeavor. I can hear it in the anguish of his voice and the intensity of his performance. I've known plenty of people like that and they don't function well in an office environment. The rest of the band steps up as well, matching Morten all the way with equal fury. In a live setting, I bet they obliterate the stage. It reminds me of seeing emo bands back in the early/mid-90s (before emo became such a bad word) get completely unhinged, falling over themselves and losing themselves in their art. It takes something special to pull it off without seeming contrived and I think Mob manages to capture some of that in their recording. Please note that I use 'emo' only as a point of reference for the power of their performance, not as a musical analogy. This is epic noiserock, far more in line with the likes of Aerial, Sonic Youth or maybe Mono. There are echoes of Portraits of Past or Heroin, but it's more in feeling than in sound.
Mob - Wait for me