The Oslo-quartet Firefly Effect is a band I’ve had on my to-blog-about list for some time now. They recently released their brilliant debutalbum “Everything is beautiful and you are the reason” on Perfect pop/Solerød records, full of charming indiepop-songs with organs, boy/girl harmonies and jangly guitars.

I’m sometimes slightly reminded by older, perfect Perfect Pop-acts like The Tables and The Blind Bats when I listen to Firefly Effect, – other times I get a feeling of Je Suis Animal or Stereolab, – and the 60s references are always there. In their biography on NRK Urört, they call their style “Retro-futuristic Sunshine pop”, which is a definition of their sound that I can agree on. The members of Firefly Effect are also a part of other good bands, like Eardrums’ favourites Children and Corpse Playing in the Streets.

You can listen to both Firefly Effect and Children and Corpse Playing in the Streets on Spotify here and here, and both albums are also available on iTunes and other good shops. You can also download several songs from Firefly Effect on NRK Urört (Norwegian site, “last ned” means download).

Here’s a new video by Firefly Effect, made by the amazing David Mahler, who have drawn and painted 1640 pictures for this video during 4 months:

Firefly Effect – All The Jokes Are On Me from Dave Mahler on Vimeo.