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.

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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.

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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