Monthly Archives: February 2007

Slaraffenland – the sound of paradise comes from Denmark

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Tweet ‘Slaraffenland’ is a word used in Denmark and Norway for a fantasy-place, a paradise where there’s no need to work and the food flies into your mouth. ‘Slaraffenland’ is a place where lazy people gets all that they need without doing too much to get it, – the land of milk and honey.‘Slaraffenland’ is also the name of an interesting band from Copenhagen, Denmark. Their music is created in interaction between composition and improvisation, and they borrow from all …

Loch Lomond

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Tweet Loch Lomond is a band from Portland playing some kind of rough but nice folk-inspired indie rock, not so far from the sound of bands like The Decemberists or My Latest Novel. The band started as a solo recording project of Ritchie Young in 2003, and after the first album release the band grew into an orchestra of some size. Actually I don’t know the number of members today, – the photos I’ve seen show from six to eight …

Loveletter to The Jesus and Mary Chain + related story: Debut album from Sister Vanilla (Jim + William + Linda + Ben)

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Tweet When I was younger I had heroes. I still do, but now my heroes are the ones I meet in life and not the cool rockers with weird hairdo’s and bad attitude. Some of my biggest heroes were Jim and William Reid. I admired their style and their attitude, but most of all their music really turned my world upside down. I bought “Psychocandy” right after its release in 1985, and I had to love it alone because my …

New song from Pelle Carlberg!

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Tweet …and what a song! “I love you you imbecile” is Pelle Carlberg‘s first single from his upcoming album, “In a nutshell” (released on Labrador records on march 28), and it is a catchy upbeat pop duet with the norwegian singer Ida Maria (who we wrote about recently here in Eardrums). The lyrics are always a joy to listen to on Pelle Carlberg’s songs…Enjoy! Pelle Carlberg feat. Ida Maria – I love you you imbecile- from labrador records And here’s …

ANT and LONELY BOY … and a little bit HEFNER

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Tweet There were once a lovely band named HEFNER. HEFNER had a great drummer named ANTONY HARDING. ANTONY HARDING had a lot of songs he had written on his own, and he started a solo project called ANT. ANT‘s latest album is called FOOTPRINTS THROUGH THE SNOW. FOOTPRINTS THROUGH THE SNOW is something I can see outside my window right now.End of this silly game… Listen to ANT instead! It’s really nice little songs, beautiful melodies, a little melancholic, a …

Free single and video from Los Campesinos! + new bandsite launched today!

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Tweet The fabulous Brighton band Los Campesinos! launced a new website today and today is also the release day for their new single “we throw parties, you throw knives”/”don’t tell me to do the math(s)”. The band has received a lot of buzz lately, and their single would have made them some pounds if they had decided to sell it like most other bands do. But no, Los Campesinos has decided to give the single away for free, including the …

The Album Leaf (Softly) Rocks Your Socks Live

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Tweet It’s good to be a The Album Leaf fan in Europe. One-man-band Jimmy LaValle’s records don’t have a huge audience like in America, where his songs are hard to avoid (on everybody’s mixtapes, and even on The O.C). Being one of the few fans restores a feeling of intimacy with TAL‘s records that definitely matches the understated textures he weaves with Rhodes keyboards, violin lines and erratic drum programming. Plus, you get to introduce the band to a lot …

I Was A Cub Scout

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Tweet I Was a Cub Scout is one of my (many) favorite bands at the moment, and it has been since I bought the single some time ago. The band calls themselves a two piece ‘boyband’, and play some kind of twee-ish electro indiepop disco with live drums, naive boy vocals and lots of synths. They have recently been signed to Abeano records, a part of the XL records family, and will release their new single “I hate nightclubs” there …

Hidden treasures from Rubik

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Tweet I first became aware of this band from Helsinki, Finland when I saw their name on the poster for the 2007 by:Larm music festival in Trondheim. I’m quite blown away after listening to the songs from their EP “People go missing” for some days now! Rubik presents melodic and atmospheric twisted indie-pop melodies. Dream-like songs that after some quiet melodic parts suddently burst out in guitar- and vocal-energy, not unlike Norwegian live favourites Delaware, but still different. One can …

Eardrums interview: The Lionheart brothers

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Tweet (LISTEN TO THE LIONHEART BROTHERS AT THEIR MYSPACE PAGES) The Lionheart brothers were one of the first bands we wrote about here at Eardrums, and now they are ready with their new album “Dizzy kiss”, a new direction and a chance to reach out to more people in more countries than ever before. They have been around for years, but this time they get more press and more positive words than ever before. Seen from a norwegian perspective, 2005 …