Doldrums...

I love everything about this new track by Fear Of Men! The verse, the "uh-uh-uh-uh"-bridge, the ever-changing drums and the vocals. And well... everything else. This is what it sounds like, when 60ies pop meets new wave (think cuteness and sadness in a lovely mix):


DOLDRUMS from FEAR OF MEN on Vimeo.

Found via Get Off The Coast.

Girls Love Sunday Mornings

I do, too. Not that it's Sunday, but it kinda feels that way, you know with x-mas and all that jazz. But here's something you'll like:

Girls Love Rallie (very cool band name) has an album out, go here and listen, if you're into lo-fi-pop and sorta Bowie-ish vocals!

And I Will Furnish Your Sunday Mornings has a teaser up, shoegaze-folk with melancholy written all over it (we love that, naturally :-)).

Oh, and check this out, The Voice Project, with a whole lotta cover gems! This one, for instance:


The Low Anthem » Phosphorescent from The Voice Project on Vimeo.


And thanks so, so much to Underlyd and the voters for making us "Årets Forventning"! And thanks very much to Radiated Sounds for playing "Crank it up"!

Cold as ice...

...with hair like Ivan (gotta love Berlingske for headlines like that :-)).

And a quick recap (I've been busy as hell with work, making "11 from 11", rehearsing, drinking and dancing and etc. and etc.). But four things I've enjoyed the last couple of weeks:

The Youth doing a cover of "Just Like Christmas" (garage-pop, a bit like The Strokes and I really, really, really like the guitars 1.23-1.48):

  The Youth - Just Like Christmas (Low) by TheYouthDK

The Great Tribulations (indie-electro-pop, reminding me of Gangway):

  Go Back To The Beginning Of The End by The Great Tribulations

And a new track from favourite Spanish band, Klaus & Kinski (sounding like, well..., Klaus & Kinski :-)).

And Marcus from Bakers at dawn has another project, houses in motion, and there's a free album right here (and we like it a lot, especially "arsenal", "cold wind blows", "birds" and "clean slate").

Eleven

The last one. You can't say 2011 without saying Spotify in Denmark, so naturally I've made a "Best of"-playlist. Right here.

And I can't say 2011 without thinking Razika and "Vondt i hjertet", so here we go again:

Ten

CATCHY SONG OF THE YEAR:

This one, Friends "I'm His Girl" (the bass, oh yeah!):



Oh, and if CJ's reading: Hipster alert, straight outta Brooklyn and the video looks like a Blondie cover :-).

Nine

COVER OF THE YEAR:

This one (as I said at the time, they stole my idea, goddamnit):

Seven / eight

CONCERTS OF THE YEAR:

Well, not quite the coolest year. I rather liked Papercuts and Primal Scream, but spectacular? Not really. So the best were: Halasan Bazar (cool concert in Blågårdsgade and ever so slightly tipsy on Campari) and The City Kill and Papir playing covers of Stooges and Yo La Tengo (cool concert somewhere on Vesterbro and ever so slightly tipsy on Mexikaner-shots).

Six

DANISH SONG OF THE YEAR:

Mikkel would obviously disagree, but I think it's this one, Larsen & Furious Jane "Sunlight":

Five

SONG OF THE YEAR:

Or perhaps Mikkel's suggestion (I like it too :-)):

Four

SONG OF THE YEAR:

Or Feist "Graveyard" (didn't quite understand the rave reviews the album received, but this song is magnificent):

Three

SONG OF THE YEAR:

Or Real Estate "It's Real":

Two

SONG OF THE YEAR:

That one's a bit harder. But either Widowspeak "Burnout":

One

Yup, it's that time of year again, best of-extravaganza. So here's part one of our "11 from 11":

SURPRISE OF THE YEAR:

Until this week I'd never heard of this band. They're called King's Daughters & Sons and they've just released the album "If then not when" on Chemikal Underground. And it's absolutely fucking brilliant! Think American rock, think Low or Smog and think post-rock and then just buy it. You can try this one as a teaser: