Peter Broderick - Home (2009)

Oy!

Peter Broderick has just moved to Copenhagen to become a member of the Danish multi-instrumentalist band-collective Efterklang, a band that is really on its way up and recieving lots of acclaim and attention in Britain these days. Broderick is an amazing componist that really knows how to orchestrate his songs. Some of the songs start in a quiet way and then they erupt into epics with lots of choir. I'm not that sure if this album is from 2009 - but I've just discovered it. For fans of, erm, Efterklang, Bon Iver and Sufjan Stevens.

Cheers,
Joachim

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)

Oy!

2009 is here, so let's start it in a good way. Animal Collective sound pretty screwed and carry a lot of tags on them - Freak-folk, experimental noise and indie are some of them. Harmonic Beach Boys pop, African tribal chants, minimalism, minimal techno, psychedelia and dub are some of the genres that the Animals flirt with on this album of twisted beauty. Do NOT classify under "easy listening" - Animal Collective demands a lot of your attention as a listener. Luckily, they make it all worth it. I personally think that this album will appear on some of the music magazines Best Of 2009 lists - we have 12 months to find out.


Cheers,
Joachim

The Flaming Lips - Christmas On Mars (2008)

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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

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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)

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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)

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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.

Download - Rapidshare

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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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