Showing posts with label The Elephants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Elephants. Show all posts

September 28, 2009

Mixed bag...

Why is it that I always find it so incredibly difficult to get anything going on Mondays? Be it work, be it blogging or be it even life in general. Probably caused by the waking up early, getting kids to school plus kindergarten, rushing to get to work on time and the general lack of excitement about work; somewhat amazing how it only takes two days to get used to not going to work, but at least three or four to get used to be back “in action” again. And by then it’s almost weekend. A vicious cycle if there ever was one!

So time to do something about the bad habit of taking Mondays off from blogging, so here we go with something (as always) old, something (very little) new, something (definitely) borrowed, something (doubt it) blue.

Danish industrial/goth inspired rock band Demons Are Real has a new band name and is now called We Are Real. The change of name was included in the unwelcomed announcement that the band has decided to part ways and leaving singer/songwriter Kenni Møller as the only continuing band member under the new alias. The split happened primarily due to musical differences, as Mr. Møller wants to focus on a more “softy melodic sound”. Since the split up seems inevitable, one can at least hope that it will lead to a return to the sound of the brilliant 2006 EP Hum Speed On/Off.
+ Burning Oil

German label Tapete Records shares the track Nothing But Clues from the brand new album Take It by Danes The Elephants. Lovely indie pop to cheer you up, if your Monday resembles mine!
+ Nothing But Clues

Finding myself humming along to this nice pop piece by Sweden's Friska Viljor. A tribute to a street (and the people living there) in Hamburg named Wohlwill Strasse. Check out the really lovely horns! On the track of course and not on the street! Whatever that would have meant anyway?
+ Wohlwill Strasse

Next Danish band in line to part ways is Decorate Decorate. Never fun to learn about those breaking ups, but my relationship with the band was somewhat strained, as I had been impatiently waiting (the past three years) for them to just once again reach the level of the grand and ever so promising Surname of Copenhagen.

June 11, 2009

Meet You In The Rain...(an experimental post)...

Yes – I know some of you will disapprove, but today’s post is written in Danish. Let's call it an experiment, but hopefully it will once and for all be a proof (to myself at least) that creating a blog post in Danish is just as much trouble and hard work as writing one in English? Let’s see!

Engelske The Cavalcade har længe været en stadig voksende plet på min radar, men af ukendte årsager har jeg indtil nu ikke fået nævnt dem i disse spalter med et eneste ord. Kvartetten spiller en herlig omgang indie pop af den der klassiske slags, som tydeligvis henter inspirationen hos Sarah Records’ mange udgivelser. Bandets EP Meet You in the Rain indeholder 5 charmerende pop perler og EP’en er så rigelig de 4 pund værd, som den kan erhverves for fra bandets Myspace side. På mandag udgiver det suveræne indie label Cloudberry Records en ganske interessant 3” CD split single, hvor The Cavalcade bidrager med to numre (der begge findes på EP’en) og svenske Boa Constrictor med yderligere to. To af fire numre kan downloades kvit og frit, og disse bør så absolut give enhver indie pop fan appetit på mere.
+ The Cavalcade – Meet You in the Rain
+ Boa Constrictor – Out of Nothing

Husk lige at downloade den nye og ganske fremragende demo fra The Raveonettes. At bandet både løfter sløret for nye (ufærdige) indspilninger samt opfordrer til feedback fra deres fans er et herligt initiativ, som man kun kan ønske flere bands vil lade sig inspirere af. Hent demoen via det hastigt (?) voksende Twitter.

Den irske blog mp3hugger har fattet interesse for danske The Elephants. Det kan kun anbefales at man snarest stryger forbi og downloader Caroline Knows! Fandt så lige ud af, at Martine fra C'est Tout Martine (som jeg så på Start!, og som gjorde et særdeles fint indtryk) også er medlem af The Elephants. Helt igennem unyttig viden, men derfor meget pudsigt alligevel!

Via Coast is Clear (og min egen inbox) er jeg snublet over dette remix. Glem at bandnavnet Strandhotel Markus er komplet åndssvagt og at titlen Disco! Disco! ikke halter langt efter. Glem frem for alt at det hele synges på tysk af en schweizer. Det her er altså super fedt!
+ Disco! Disco! (Youth Back To Balearia Remix)

Jonas lufter sin mening om det nye Nephew album. Undertegnede er endnu ikke hoppet med på Nephew vognen, men måske tiden er moden til at vove pelsen?