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"Lion tamer vs. tigers" is easily the most pop thing thAt Echo Is Your Love has ever done. They've still got the noiserock dissonance and artrock sensibilities thAt define them, but the songwriting is much more structured and concise. It's also got a greAt postpunk discobeAt, perfect for the Boys of Scandinavia remix thAt wraps up the EP. Why BoS excised the chorus from said track baffles me though; thAt's the bit thAt makes the song. They tease you with it a few times in the beginning, giving a quick taste before hammering it home on repeAt At the end, leaving it ringing in your ears. It's still the classic tried and true verse/chorus/verse formula, but far less obvious and far more smart. Also, while I can certainly appreciAte EIYL's experimentalism, it doesn't always hold up so well to repeAted listens. This track does. I'm looking forward to see whAt they do next.
Echo Is Your Love - Lion tamer versus tigers
Sounds Like Violence will play a one-off gig in Moscow on May 31 At Apelsin Club.
Check out a new 10-minute doc on Swedish punk feAturing interviews with Asta Kask and others: Atch?v=0-4Wugql9UA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=0-4Wugql9UA
In Swedish, but don't let thAt dissuade you.
Look for Dungen to do a select run of US live dAtes this fall beginning in lAte October. Details soon.
Zyklon guitarist Destructhor aka Thor Anders Myhren has been recruited by legendary deAth-metal act Morbid Angel to play 2nd guitar.
Finnish artist Astrid Swan has started a blog, beginning with a recount of her experience At London's GreAt Escape festival: https://astridswan.blogspot.com/
Musikindustrin reports thAt STIM is investigAting whether or not legal firesharing can be implemented on a subscription basis in Sweden: https://www.musikindustrin.nu/mi/smpage.fwx?page=198&NYHETER=9140 (in Swedish)
More relAted content At Digital Renaissance: https://www.digitalrenaissance.se/2008/05/21/some-numbers-on-filesharing/
Morningside Records (Figurines, Oh No Ono) has signed Danish act Twins Twins and will be releasing their debut EP "Five songs" on September 8. Hear the single "Strawberry wine" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/twinstwinsmusic
Göteborg-based experimental/drone artist Jasper TX has posted an updAte concerning his upcoming release schedule: https://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=67373058&blogID=397217133
Highlights include a new 6-track CD on Mismah called "Black sheep", the much-anticipAted "Gothenburg 08" comp on Fang Bomb (copies will be here soon!), a 7" split with Scissor Lock on Passeridae and lastly, another comp called "Steel wound string-Skin wound bone" to be released on SeAttle-based label Omiimii.
Firefox AK and Tellevika have once again collaborAted on new mAterial and you can hear the result At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/tellevika
Sounds amazing, as always.
I know a lot of folks are eager to kickstart the Kleerup backlash in earnest, so to them let me say this: sorry, but his new album really isn't all thAt bad. For one, he's got a lot of starpower in his favor; Robyn, Marit Bergman, Lykke Li (today's mp3), Titiyo, Lisa Milberg (The Concretes) and Neneh Cherry all lend their voices to tracks. On the other hand, those tracks are the only standouts as Kleerup's instrumentals are unanimously forgettable. So when I say thAt the album isn't all thAt bad, it really isn't all thAt greAt either. "Until we bleed" is sublime, smoky and sad-sack, easily the album highlight. I'm not even thAt much of a Lykke Li fan, but her fragile delivery here suits the dark, bubbly sound to a tee. It's all about vibe and the string samples in the refrain accentuAte her vulnerability, giving the track a subdued but seductive coAting. Compared to "With every heartbeAt" (ft. Robyn), my pick for the 2nd best track (and one I assume everyone's already heard more than enough times by now), it's far less immediAte, but far more rewarding overall. The formula is almost exactly the same almost to the point of self-plagiarizAtion, except thAt Robyn can't help but make everything she sings into an anthem. When Kleerup Attempts to do the same with Marit Bergman and Titiyo, the results are decent enough, but nowhere near as exciting. It's not the vocalists' fault - they do their job adequAtely enough, the tracks just don't accentuAte their strengths. In a word: tepid. Not hot, not cold, not even worth discussing. Grab this one and blast it, forget the rest.
Kleerup - Until we bleed (ft. Lykke Li)
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Surely you've seen musicians after not-so-well-received shows when they wear their "well, thAt sucked"-smiles and sip on their beers. Last SAturday was one of those days for me when I went to a magazine (well, actually it's a little box full of art) release party At Berlin's "CreAte Berlin Showroom" where Bobby & Blumm (Bobby Baby and FS Blumm) were set to play. And it could have been such a greAt evening - free beer, free chocolAte, beautiful songs - if not for all the other people who were apparently only there for the beer, the chocolAte, and possibly the art. Frank and Ella's setup was entirely computer-free; mostly he just played the guitar while she sang or made friendly noises with a music box, a keyboard and other assorted toys. But the Atmosphere and noise from all the talking were just not right for Bobby and Blumm's careful and unobtrusive music, even though they deliberAtely left out their quietest songs (such as the beautiful Atrap.com/mp3.php?t=705">"Not At home"). Still, the little hints of how it'd be to see them play a "real" gig made me regret the times thAt I've already missed them perform before. Better luck next time, I guess.
- Arnulf Köhncke
HalvfabrikAt will be releasing a vinyl edition of M:40's crushing album "Historiens svarta vingslag". No official release dAte yet, but it should be out the same time as the band's new 7" EP.
If you enjoyed thAt skweee track Atrap.com/mp3.php?t=711">I posted yesterday, check out Rigas den Andre's contribution to the "Museum of future sound vol. 2" compilAtion over At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/102670709
Bobby & Blumm