The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars (2008)

Oy!

The Flaming Lips have chosen to give us both a sensationally weird film with an equally weird soundtrack for Christmas present this year. If you think that Christmas doesn't make sense at all, you should watch the movie that doesn't make sense at all neither. The film score is really weird - Christmas a la The Flaming Lips, I guess. The twisted Chistmas-soundtrack is right here, although this brilliantly no-sense-making album doesn't sound very much like Christmas.

Wishing you a Christmas that feels like being on acid,
Joachim

Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas

Oy!

If your stereo is running dry of alternative Christmas tunes, here's a refill that'll keep you going for some time. American indie-hero Sufjan Stevens has made 5 mini-albums of cozy (and slightly depressive) Christmas songs, and here they are all packed in one glorious zip-file, for your pleasure. Just check out the definitive shit-Christmas-anthem That Was The Worst Christmas Ever! and you've got an idea of what this album is like. Lyrics that put you down, melodies that get you up again - this one saves the Christmas mood(y) of the whole family.

Wishing you a better Christmas than Sufjan Stevens seems to have every year,
Joachim

Dutch Uncles - Dutch Uncles (2008)

Oy!

Here's the album I requested. Dutch Uncles are a British new wave-indie-band, and this album is absolutely brilliant. Twisted rhytms, amazing melodies and catchyness times a thousand. Just check out Face In or Steadycam and I'm pretty sure they will stick to your brain for a couple af days, if not more. This is so much better than most of the junk that the British music scene likes to throw at our faces. Highly recommended for fans of British indie stuff, new wave or just for fans of a good song.

Cheers,
Joachim

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Communion (2008)

Oy!

Today's Christmas treat hasn't got anything to do with Christmas. But what a treat! The album cover is absolutely astonishing (although it doesn't make ANY sense) and so is the album. The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are a bunch of Swedish psych-retro-garage rockers, and Communion is their very ambitious 24-track brand new double album. Tunes as the opener Babel On and Lost Prophets In Vain show the greatness of this darn good band. Highly recommended for fans of the early Kings Of Leon, Tom Petty, The White Stripes and maybe even Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

Cheers,
Joachim

Glam Chops - Christmas Tunes (2008)

Oy!

More Christmas-goodies. This time it's the galm rock attempt of doing Christmas songs. Glam Chops are one of Art Brut-frontguy Eddie Argos' thousands of bands - but the only ones that have done Christmas songs this year. As they claim: "With the spiraling interglobal recession showing no signs of improvement, GLAM CHOPS (Glam Rock supergroup featuring Eddie Argos of Art Brut, The Vessel – singer of David Devant & His Spirit Wife) have made a joint decision to give their Christmas single away to their fans for free in a bid to get the nation smiling once again. There's definitely a Glam Rock revival on the cards and Great Britain needs it more than ever. The tracks are so good and we probably would have scored a minor hit with the single, but Glam Chops wanted to react to the current situation of everyone being too broke to afford anything but food and drinks. "

Wishing you a Glam Christmas,
Joachim

Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (2008)

Oy!

More Christmas-treats for you. Glasvegas are almost more hyped than Santa Claus himself and they deliver 6 new Christmas tunes for you. The style is much like their self-titled debut album - epic poptunes swelled in reverb with a bit of edgy noise added. The whole idea of making a serious Christmas album seems kinda funny to me. Anyway. Put shortly, here's your dose of Scottish-Britpop-Christmas-yummy-yummy.

Wishing you a continuosly symphonic Christmas,
Joachim

The Raveonettes - Wishing You A Rave Christmas (2008)

Oy!

Christmas it is! And what better way to start these 24 days of pure madness than with a brand new Raveonettes Christmas-EP. Wishing You A Rave Christmas contains a depressed cover of Christmas (Baby Come Home) and after that tune, they give us 3 brand new Christmas classics. If you want a rave Christmas, this is definately the right thing for you. And remember: All Christmas, Fries Of Freedom will post all new Christmas-tunes worth listening to! (And some not-very-Christmas albums too).

Cheers,
Joachim

Justice - A Cross The Universe (2008)

It's finally here. The Justice live album. Recorded during one of their energetic live shows on the tour last spring, this album reflects all the energeticness. This release comes together with their new road movie about "two frogs in the USA", that is also called "A Cross The Universe". Me and Joachim went to see it, and we'd say that it's definitely worth a watch. The songs on the album are all live remixes of their own songs, with samples from other artists. Very ravey.

Cheers

Hjörtur

Team B - Team B (2008)

Oy!

Audioslave, Velvet Revolver, Team B - here's the latest superband. And this is an indie superband! Consisting of members from Arcade Fire, Beirut and LCD Soundsystem, it doesn't get much better name-wise. And to call it Team B must be really ironic - this is clearly an indie Team A. This album is quite fine, and I really recommend fans of the above-mentioned bands (not Audioslave and Velvet Revolver, you wanker) to give this stuff a listen. I think you'll like it very much.

Cheers,
Joachim

Tim Christensen - Superior (2008)

Oy!

New stuff from this Danish dude, it's been 5 years since he last released an album. Now he's back, but things are a bit different this time. There's not so much cool 1-2-3-4 bluesy rock tunes that Tim usually does in a very convincing and cool way. This album worships the good ballad (and the horrible ballad on the only real bummer on this album, Wonder Of Wonders), and there's a lot of Tim's voice and acoustic guitars here. Luckily, he's an extremely talented songwriter, and that is what makes this album a very nice experience.

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Cheers,
Joachim

BONUS INFO: Celine Dion cdid a cover of one of his tunes on her latest album, Taking Chances. It sucked.

Marybell Katastrophy - The More (2008)

Oy!

This thing is Danish, and it's absolutely fantastic. Marybell Katastrophy play electronic music very similar to The Knife. And this is, in my opinion, by far the best Danish electronica release of the year. Clever and catchy, this album just thrills you 'till you stop listening to it. There are bunches of great tunes here. Especially recommended for fans of The Knife (this shit will blow you away), but also worth the check for fans of Justice or Trentemøller.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Ja, Panik - The Taste And The Money (2008)

Oy!

In the home country of Arnold Schwarzenegger and DJ Ötzi, where the "alpenpop" reigns the hitlists, THERE, something special has occured. Ja, Panik has made an album of part German-part English indieROCK songs. Noise, feedback, fuzz and catchy stuff dominates the soundscapes created by these Austrian lads. And what a lovely mess. In these times where all near-German stuff that seems to get released is Polarkreis 18 and Tokio Hotel, it's nice with some guys that don't give a shit about mainstream. Bravo!!

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Cheers,
Joachim

No And The Maybes - No And The Maybes (2008)

Oy!

Here's some new hot Danish stuff. No And The Maybes play indie chamber pop with very catchy whistling song-themes, falsetto vocals, claps ang analogue synthesizers. Everything's included on the single Petra Petrified which is a brilliant blast of pop played with real instruments. Makes you want to drink a little, dance a little, flirt a little, jump a little, think a little and then cry a little. The mood seems to be happy almost all way through but you're leaved with a feeling of "Did I forget something?" which actually is kinda cool.

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Cheers,
Joachim

The Wong Boys - The Wong Boys (2008)

Oy!

The cover reveals the really bad taste on this Danish album. It seemed to be a silly side project when The Wong Boys released the single Git Ur Fuk On earlier this year. But on the opening track the Boys prove that it's more than just being silly. The title is Wolf Heart and the repeating lyrics sing "I'm just a kid who wants to be loved". A couple of tracks are just as silly as Git Ur Fuk On but on tunes as Alien Disguise, the sophistication suddenly steps intothe picture. Giving you Danish macho-electro. Yeah.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Peter Bjorn And John - Seaside Rock (2008)

Heja!

New album from one of Sweden's finest acts, the indie-pop-rockers Peter Bjorn And John that molested your ears in 2006 when they released the hysterically catchy and magnificent single Young Folks. With its whistling-theme, it was destinied to crawl into people's brains and stay there for quite a while. Now they're back after two years of silence and even though there are no cult hits on this one, it's not bad at all.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Jersey - Itinerary (2008)

Gutentag!

German post-rock is on today's agenda. That's not a bad thing, just check out the guys from Jersey. This stuff was made for a German documentary of a German kid that lives in the glorious little town of Eisenach and then gets discovered by a model scout (!?!?!). The documentary just follows his way to the fashion business, and that sound somewhat between extremely boring and quite interesting. At least the soundtrack is very interesting. Enjoy!

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Can I have that Bockwurst,
Joachim

Glasvegas - Glasvegas (2008)

Oy!

Glasvegas are a Scottish band that try to blend the two cities Glasgow and Las Vegas into a band name. Interesting. What is even more interesting is that Glasvegas play a sort of epic noisepop mixed with classic indie-rock melodies. That's the way to get hyped these days. Luckily, Glasvegas know exactly how to do it and therefore they deliver a brilliant debut album. The Observer gave the album a top character, NME gave it a 9 out of 10 and the album has recieved even more critical acclaim. They're also releasing a christmas album this year - we will post that one for sure.

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Cheers,
Joachim

David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (2008)

Byrne and Eno call this "electronic gospel-folk", which must by all costs be a revolutionary idea. The albums is a great mix of creative juices between the ex-frontman of the new wave band Talking Heads, David Byrne, and the wizard producer of all good albums from the 80's, Brian Eno. It's easy to identify these two artists in the sounds of the album, Eno writing the music, and Byrne writing the thoughtful lyrics and melodies. Anyways, this is an great album, even though it's not as good as their previous releases.

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Enjoy 

Hjörtur

Amazing Baby - Infinite Fucking Cross (2008)

Oy!

Looking for a very hyped Brooklyn-band that are friends with MGMT? It's your lucky day. Amazing Baby play psych-rock, not completely unlike MGMT - the biggest difference is that MGMT has that undeniable brilliant touch of pop sensibility where Amazing Baby seem to focus more on driven rock rythms. This is not an album, it's their first EP and it consists of 4 tracks that have recieved lots of acclaim already. Check this one out and see if you think the hype is right!

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Cheers,
Joachim

Megapuss - Surfing (2008)

Oy!

Everybody's neo-hippie of choice, Devendra Banhart, is back with a new album! This time, he's in a band called Megapuss together with Greg Rogove of Priestbird and Fab Moretti of The Strokes. The first single decribes the whole scene here: It's called Adam & Steve, the guitar solo is a heavily distorted version of George Michael's "Careless Whisper"-theme, and the music video is extremely silly, featuring Banhart himself in colourful underpants doing some weird sort of dance. Well, these guys are not exactly doing anything to get mainstream airplay anywhere. They just have shit loads of fun. The cover pretty much tells the story.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Fireman - Electric Arguments (2008)

Oy!

Paul McCartney is back with a band called Fireman. It's kinda basic classic rock, but it's much better that Macca's latest offerings. The cover doesn't promise anything classic and mature, though. Well, there's not that much to say in this case, don't expect the ol' man to scream us a progressive techno-gabber tune here, this is rock as it was back in the 60's-70's. For fans of, erm, Beatles, The Who or for people that just try to turn back time by playing old-sounding music. Not the Fab Four, but indeed not bad either.

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Cheers,
Joachim

DAD - Monster Philosophy (2008)

Oy!

Danish rock is on the schedule. DAD are old men on the Danish rock scene and, let's be honest, they've peaked a couple of years ago. This album of Comics-rock (why on Earth do us Danes call it that!?!?) has recieved quite bad reviews in Danish media. But, what the hell, I don't think this is bad - this is just pure rock, not missing out on the fun, still not just throwing clichées in your face. Worth a listen.

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Cheers
Joachim

Scott Weiland - Happy In Galoshes (2008)

Oy!

First of all, I need to tell you: Scott Weiland is my bitch. Now you know. Everything he does is kinda right and still kinda wrong, at that is what I like so much about him. He's a brilliant musician and a true performer also. And this album proves nothing else, although it doesn't sound like Velvet Revolver or Stone Temple Pilots. This is more of a singer-songwriter effort, and except for the HORRIBLE!!!!! tune called Fame, it's a quite fine effort. Crash is a catchy tune, Missin' Cleveland is a rock-ballad, She Sold Her System is the closest thing I've heard of an acid balland. Turn down the tempo and chill out with Weiland.

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Cheers,
Joachim

The Raveonettes - Beauty Dies (2008)

Oy!

Yes, this one is kind of late on the blog, but all the links to it seem to disappear. This is not a flirt with electronic like Sometimes They Drop By, this is, in my opinion, the thing that The Raveonettes do best: play damn tight, add stinging guitars and beautiful vocals over fine melodies. Especially the cool Young And Beautiful shines trough together The Thief that is almost hypnotizing with its strange jazz beat. Ugly, dusty and dark Film Noire as music. The best Raveonettes-EP yet, looking forwards to the next one in December!

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Cheers,
Joachim

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - The Effects Of 333 (2008)

Oy!

Nine Inch Nails did it with Ghosts this year - now it's time for Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to make an album of instrumental ambient tracks. Just one different thing - there's no drum in sight here. It's basically 10 tunes of screwed noise. Stoned? Yes indeed. I think the thought of doing a whole album of noise is completely alright, but it just seems that BRMC is moving nowhere. It does absolutely nothing to one's image of them. I mean, it's alright, but I just can't see the point of BRMC doing this album.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Matador Intended Play - Fall '08

Happy election day!

If you like American indie music, then I'm sure that you'll like this free compilation of fresh new sounds from the beloved American indie music label Matador. The acts include Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian, Jay Reatard (yeah I know, thats one cool name) and loads of more goods to all indie-folks out there. It has become a habit that Matador releases a new free mixtape now and then, so look forward to the next one!

Get it before it gets you.

Download - via Matador

Cheers 

Hjörtur

Cajun Dance Party - The Colourful Life (2008)

Oy!

Here's one of the most anticipated debut albums of 2008. Being very hyped and Thom Yorke's new favorites, the pressure is already huge on these London weird people. Luckily, The Colourful Life lives up to the high expectations with stunningly fine rockers and well-written ballads and dramatic arrangements. For fans of Radiohead, post-punk, Arctic Monkeys and British indie in general. This is not the last thing we've heard from these guys.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger (2008)

Bonjour!

Quentin Dupieux aka Mr. Oizo is probably the most Artrock human being ever. His contribution to the latest Ed Banger compilation can't even be described as a music number, and Dupieux has sad some weird stuff about this album, including "some of these songs are good, some of them are bad and some of them are just okay". I guess you have to be quite a weirdo to be signed at Ed Banger. His music is usually incredibly avantgarde (read this: bad), just being way too fucked to really understand. If you like this, I sencerely respect you.

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Mais oui, tu veux une banane
Mr. Joachim

Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On (2008)

The band stated, this going to be "EODM's latest fabulous weapon, a top-secret music missile, a sonic warhead sexually tipped for her pleasure, shot from the deck of USS EODM Mantastic Fantastic.". Well, I'll choose to believe in them. EODM are back, reloaded with lots of energy waiting to be released on this new album. I think that Jesse Hughes is playing a bigger role on this album, than he's done on the two others, but that doesn't effect the quality.

Enjoy!

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Hjörtur

Death By Kite - Death By Kite (2007)

Hey

This one is kind of late on the blog, but it had to be posted sooner or later. Death Be Kite is a Danish alienated indie-band who are starting to emerge from the deep depths of the Danish underground. Expect fast rhythm guitars and shifting boy/girl vocals. They have been receiving some airplay this year with their single "Himmelfahrtskommando", but haven't been hitting the charts. It's definitely worth a listen.

Download - Megaupload

Cheers

Hjörtur

The Tremolo Beer Gut - Nous Sommes The Tremolo Beer Gut. Qui Le Fuck Êtes-Vous?

Oy!

Danish Surf-Rock might not sound too familiar to you. Behold! Introducing The Tremolo Beer Gut: the one and only Danish Surf-Rock band. Making an album of 15 tracks is impressing. The fact that all track sound like a soundtrack from a Tarantino Motion Picture or some bad old thriller is even more impressing. The longest number is 2:52 which translates: the numbers are short retro-explosions. A very cool album indeed and a must for every fans of noisy stuff or just Surf-Rock stuff. Plus, it's a brilliant album title.

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Cheers,
Joachim

M83 - Saturdays=Youth (2008)

Bonjour!

French music on the menu! M83 released the fine Before The Dawn Heals Us in 2005, an album that contained the anthemic killer tune Don't Save Us From The Flames. Where inspirations as My Bloody Valentine and Sigur Ros shined through on BTDHU, S=Y is more of a tribute to New Order, Vince Clarke and Depeche Mode. M83 called this an electronic concept album. I absolutely hate that description. Luckily, S=Y doens't lack those cinematic sonic soundscapes that M83 are so appreciated for. Electronic music for those who hate electronic music.

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Excuses-moi monsieur, ou est mon fromage,
Joachim

Ryan Adams And The Cardinals - Cardinology (2008)

Oy!

Ryan Adams is one of my favorite artists. Releasing masterpieces as Rock N Roll and especially the magnificent Gold, Ryan Adams has shown what a fucking brilliant songwriter he is. Lately he has teamed up with The Cardinals a lot of times, so from now on he's actually a part of The Cardinals. This means he's not as fucked and raw as heard on Rock N Roll - it's a more controlled Ryan Adams we hear today. This album is the best he's ever done with The Cardinals, though, and it's highly recommended. Try this one out on my behalf!

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Cheers,
Joachim

The Week That Was - The Week That Was (2008)

Oy!

Here's the 22nd most acclaimed album of 2008 this far. Songs are written and played by Peter Brewis of what was former known as Field Music. It's a 32-minute 8-track indie pop concept album written as a part of an imaginary crime thriller and it's a hundred times better than it sounds! It's the kind of pop that is posted surprisingly much on this blog - not the stupid kind of pop, but just kind melodies not drained in distorted guitars. Hard to find but easy to enjoy.

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Cheers,
Joachim

Mani Spinx - Black Mamba (2008)

Hello.

Mr. Mani Spinx is a Danish experimental pop artist. Appreciated by Danish album reviewers for his willing to try out a thousand different genres on every album, Mani doesn't recieve shitloads of airplay at home. Actually, he just doesn't get shitloads of airplay at all. The music can be described as "a happy charmeleon on drugs" or just as "pop". Not the stupid kind of pop, though. Cool tracks includes the extremely annoying, but still very addictive C'mon which has been played just a little bit on Danish radio.

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Cheers,
Joachim

The Dears - Missiles (2008)

Oy!

The Dears were right on the edge. They were hot shit, the next big thing and now they're could-have-been's. They never really got their breakthrough right, and the rules say you can't stand on the breakthrough-edge too long. The Dears did, and now mainstream has totally forgotten these indie guys. And that's a shame for these dudes that were the Canadian indie heroes, a place taken over by Arcade Fire, I believe. As always the melodies are melancholic and guitar-driven, which uses to please fans of, well, Arcade Fire, Coldplay and especially The Thrills.

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Cheers,
Joachim

AC/DC - Black Ice (2008)

Oy!

AC/DC are back - and they haven't lost their power (take a couple of seconds to figure that sentence out - it's cheap, but it's goddamn hilarious. In a bad way.). All catastrophal physics jokes aside, this is a brand new thing, and AC/DC are not more outdated than they've always been.
Their music isn't that damn innovative, but why would you care, you're already getting drunk in cheap beer and jumping around naked if you're listening to this. And you might want a doctor or a psychiatrist, at least just for the attention.

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(Stupid filenames are cool. End of discussion.)

Cheers,
Joachim

Electric Six - Flashy (2008)

Oy

More from your favorite fantastic mantastic garage/disco/punk/new wave band. Expect funny, but not as funny as their earliest stuff, lyrics about vulgar subjects. In my opinion Electric Six is just a two-hit-wonder-band("Gay Bar" and "Danger! High Voltage") and has lost it's glow with their newer albums.  But heck, you now you want it. At least for the humor.

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Enjoy!

Hjörtur

Keane - Perfect Symmetry (2008)

Oy!

This anticipated bastard has hit the blog! The rockers that forgot they needed a guitar player has stated that they have completely transformed their look and this album will be very unexpected. I hope that they'll go on stage with Gibson Flying V-guitars screaming "fuck you guys!!" and then just letting the groupies stream in. And even though that sound like a killer idea, it is very hard to imagine happening to Keane. Also, they might lose a fan or two.


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(Pick this up now - reposting will be seriously delayed!)

Rocksploitation,
Joachim

Moi Caprice - We Had Faces Then (2008)

Oy!

Damn, we're catching up on the Danish music scene at the moment. This is the fourth album by the melancholic artpoppers from Moi Caprice. It's filled with rich orchestrated tunes blended with some up-tempo, contemplative ones. If you're into Choir Of Young Believers, Coldplay or other bands that like minor chords, these guys won't let you down. One of those albums that doesn't get you dancing in two minutes. Watch Titanic, sniff onions, get your Kleenex-box and listen to this.

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It's okay for men to cry as long as nobody sees it,
Joachim

Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin' And I Still Got Most Of It Left (2008)

Oy!

Everybody's favorite hobo is here with a brand new album. To those of you who don't know Seasick Steve: Get to. This man is the blues. Delivering thrilling concerts at summer festivals (including Roskilde Festival) this year, playing homemade guitars with three and two strings, living in a camper and having released his debut album at the age of 65, this man truly is something special. This album is something special, too - Nick Cave's Grinderman even feature on one track, Just Like A King. Check this guy out, he's the very concentrate of blues.

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Cheers,
Joachim

CALLmeKAT - I'm In A Polaroid - Where Are You? (2008)

Seems like we're only posting danish stuff at the moment! 

Well, here is a new shining star on the danish electro-art-rock sky. CALLmeKAT also known as Katrine Ottesen, is a woman with a beautiful voice, who plays silent electro, by only using a synthesizer, her voice and occasionally a yazoo. Sounds a little like CocoRosie and the early laptop-Mugison.

Download - Megaupload

Enjoy!

Hjörtur

The Von Bondies - We Are Kamikazes Aiming Straight For Your Heart (2008)

Oy!

Finally, The Von Bondies wake up and give us some new music. We Are Kamikazes are The Bondies as we know them - very much like The White Stripes (who the frontman occasionally hits in the head) with pop sensibility. Indie-garage-post-punk as we know it the best. We Are Kamikazes is an EP, but our Bondie-friends should have a new album coming out soon. Till then, have fun with this one - it's brilliant warm-up for the new album.

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Go hit Jack White one more time,
Joachim

Tina Dickow - A Beginning, A Detour, An Open Ending (2008)

Hello.

The Danish stuff alert is turned on again. Tina Dickow is on the edge to do an international breakthrough. She's having plenty of succes in England right now, and she's also well-known in Denmark. What a surprise. This album is actually three EPs melted together which limits more beautiful songs for us. Most of them is just Tina and her guitar, but that is more than convincing in itself, just listen to Quarter To Forever. This is a brilliant and beautiful album.

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Cheers,
Joachim

The Raveonettes - Sometimes They Drop By (2008)

Oy!

Even more Danish stuff is here - this time you might actually know the band. The Raveonettes have played on Letterman and made Dave himself say "I wanna go to Denmark". He hasn't come yet. This year, The Raveonettes are releasing one EP in September, one in October and one in November. Frontman Sune Wagner sure knows how to make money to buy all that hairspray. Oh, the music! Well, more electronic than before, but still noisy and psychedelic. The other half of the band has just given birth to a baby. Congratulations on that soon-bass-playing little one!

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Cheers,
Joachim

18th Dye - Amorine Queen (2008)

Yo.

Today I bring you Amorine Queen, the comeback-album from Danish/German noise rockers 18th Dye. It's been 13 years since last time, but the style hasn't changed. Good rock melodies spiced up with noisy guitars and rumbling basslines. Think somewhere between My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth and The White Stripes and smile. An album that contains plenty of "cool" and a little "kitcsh" as indicated on the Cher-90's-style vocoded male voice on Chinese Spoon. This is amazingly good!

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Auf Wiedersehen,
Joachim

Choir Of Young Believers - This Is For The White In Your Eyes (2008)

Oy!

And more stuff from Denmark is here. This is the debut album from Jannis Noya Makrigiannis (not very Danish name), and it's good. In fact, it's splendid. It's a kind of not-very-radio-friendly pop melodies, carried to excellence by asian inspired plays, brilliant pop melodies, rich orchestration and the beautiful voice of Jannis. TIFTHIYE is actually just quite a showoff revealing Jannis' amazing skills as a songwriter and as a musician. Recommended for you "arty" types out there and everyone else.

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Hi-ya,
Joachim

Eagles of Death Metal - Peace Love Death Metal (2004)

Stumbled across this beautiful album today, and decided to post the goddamn thing. No introduction is needed for Josh "Baby Duck AKA Carlo von Sexron" Homme and Jesse "Boots Electric AKA the Devil AKA Mr Boogie Man" Hughes. The pseudonyms are there and so are the bluesy, groovy, fast guitars from Mr Moustache, followed by the drums of Ginger Elvis.

This is the perfect warm-up for EODM's upcoming album "Heart 

On". Be excited.

Download - Megaupload (Rapidshare is currently at the speed of Michael Moore running a marathon)

All hail the moustache

Hjörtur

Monkey - Journey To The West (2008)

Konichiwa!

Damon Albarn's back with an anti-mainstream monkey musical! It's a stage adaption of an old chinese novel from the 16th century, and luckily, there's a soundtrack to it. And a good one, indeed. Well, it's not very normal and you can clearly hear the Chinese inspirations on this one. Of course, Gorillaz have also set their marks on the monkey-tastic musical, as well has The Good The Bad And The Queen. If you were looking for ethnic monkey music, you've come to the right place.
(btw, am I the only one that thinks the cover is kinda friggin scary?)

Download - Megaupload

More rice for me,
Joachim

The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed (2008)

Oy!

Mike Skinner is back to give us more grime-rap-hip-pop. Already having two really cool albums on his concience (A Grand Don't Come For Free and Original Pirate Material), his latest outcome blew it a bit. The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living did not contain those fantastic hits that were included especially in AGDCFF. But Skinner won't give up that easy and here it is - Everything Is Borrowed. Enjoy his cool British accent.

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Cheers,
Joachim