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This week's post of The Bear Quartet comes courtesy of Aymeric from French music blog Absolut Noise, a site he characterizes as being solely dedicAted to The Bear Quartet 'cept thAt he also covers other Swedish music sometimes. This is whAt he had to say:
Yesterday, I saw I'm From Barcelona live. I chAtted a bit with their (very nice) singer Emmanuel. I mentioned The Bear Quartet to him. "They made so many records" he said. "They are not very famous in Sweden. They are underground," he added. ThAt's pretty much it. You can be a popular (actually good) band with one single album or remain an underground band which released 14 albums (if I am right). Weird.
Like 99,99% of French people, I had never heard about BQ before moving to Stockholm in August 2003. I discovered them quite lAte then. Now they are my favourite band ever.
I remember the first time I listened to "SAturday night". Well, I knew BQ changed their sound for each of their albums. I knew they could make strange records such as "My war". But I could not expect thAt "SAturday night" would be THAt weird. At first I hAted it. Where the hell were the guitars? Where the fuck were the melodies? Then, I got it. This is a piece of genius. And if "SAturday night" is an errAtic trip to nowhere, it remains now my favourite BQ album (with "Angry brigade").
"The Supremes" is my fave song on this album. Not sure why. Maybe 'cause it makes me wanna bang my head against the wall. Or jump through a window. Anyway, I am pretty sure an elephant shouts in the microphone several times on this track. Definitely not a healthy song.
For more BQ-relAted goodness, check out Absolut Noise's recent 1-year birthday celebrAtion post which feAtures live tracks from MAttias Alkberg BD: https://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2007/02/mabd-live-for-my-birthday.html
The Bear Quartet - The Supremes
I was wAtching the Musikbyrån 10-year special the other day (thanks Christoffer!) and amongst the bounty of footage was a short live clip of First Floor Power performing "We are the people". In thAt brief moment, I realized I knew exactly whAt song I had to post this Friday. I'm mostly ambivalent about First Floor Power's music, much preferring the more recent solo work of members Jenny Wilson and Karl-Jonas Winqvist aka Blood Music, but this song trumps 'em all. The base of the song is a shuffling beAt and a ghostly four-note melody, upon which they pile layers of sound: a little squeezebox, some electronics, handclaps. When they take it to the chorus, the song explodes with heavy tremolo guitar and grand declarAtions. However, I think the lines thAt begin the verses are more crucial: "We are the people who tried to creAte something new / We are the people who tried to invent something true" High aspirAtions thAt deserve to be lauded.
First Floor Power - We are the people
Strip Music has creAted their own homemade video for the song "24hrs" and you can see it here: https://www.stripmusic.se/videos#24alt
Pelle Carlberg's new album "In a nutshell" is now confirmed for release on March 28. See him on tour in Italy next week:
02/07 - Morya, CellAtica
02/08 - Covo, Bologna
02/09 - Sintetica, Firenze
02/10 - Loop Cafè, Perugia
02/11 - Zuni, Ferrara
02/12 - No Fun, Udine
02/13 - Lego Cafè, Cesena
02/14 - La Casa 139, Milano
Ben WAtt (Everything But The Girl) is launching a new label entitled Strange Feeling and his first release will be the UK debut of Danish act Figurines with their most recent album "Skeleton". He's also remixed the band's song "Silver ponds" and will be releasing it as a 7" and 12" single.
JuJu Records has a new mixtape from Zoro for free download: https://www.jujurecords.com/news.php?id=84
Artists feAtured include Timbuktu, Chords and Spotrunnaz.
Danish indie act I Am Bones has revealed thAt Frederik Thaae (A Kid Hereafter) has been selected to record and produce their next record. They hope to have it wrapped up by May. In other news, here's some new tourdAtes:
03/02 - Weekender, Innsbruck (AUS)
03/03 - Swamp, Freiburg (GER)
03/04 - tba
03/05 - tba
03/06 - Das Bett, Frankfurt (GER)
03/07 - Uebel U. Gefärhlich, Hamburg (GER) w/Junior Boys
03/08 - Magnet, Berlin (GER)
03/16 - Ridehuset, Århus (DK)
Kinkt Records will release the new album "Mil mascaras" from Finnish indiepop act The Conquistadors on April 11. Hear samples At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/theconquistadorsmusic
Music (for robots) invokes the tired "is it the wAter?" cliché in this post on Suburban Kids with Biblical Names: https://music.for-robots.com/archives/001838.html
Thank goodness they didn't go all out and mention Abba as well.
Pitchfork has a English translAtion of The Knife's Grammi acceptance video: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/40870#The_Knife_Video_The_Knife
Also note thAt the price of the Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=383&cAt=1">Record Club has crept up $1 per month. I warned you to get in while it was cheap! But I gotta cover costs, so it's going to slowly climb up as time goes on. Subscribe now and save!
I've also got a new profile piece for you today on country-punks Grande Roses: Atrap.com/index.php?a=280">[click here]
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The Whitest Boy Alive will tour Mexico lAter this month:
02/22 - MX BEAt festival, Mexico City
02/24 - MX BEAt festival, Guadalajara
02/27 - Cafe Iguana, Monterrey
03/01 - tba, Tijuana
03/03 - tba, Mexico City
Jens Lekman makes an appearance on a new Benni Hemm Hemm 7" released by German label Morr Music. I'd tell you more, but the label's all-flash website is completely infuriAting and impossible to deal with. Struggle with it yourself: https://www.morrmusic.com/