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Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
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Love Is All are a Swedish indie-garage-disco-punk band led by Josephine Olausson. They come with eleven songs on their second album that will most probably make you stand up, move and remember them. Meanwhile it’s actually a soundtrack to the young modern folk’s solitude despite a hundred things. Olausson’s tiny voice yells about how shitty movie romance portraits are, walking home with the last guy at the bar, being inside 19 walls and all in between.
Silence is Sexy – This Ain’t Hollywood
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Dutch band Silence is Sexy have decided to distribute their album This Ain’t Hollywood, a score for an imaginary film, over the BitTorrent network. I am very happy to see more and more artists embracing the new ways of spreading their work. The idea of packaging and massively selling music via a physical medium sounds equally nonsense to both the Internet generation and eg somebody living in 19th century. Artists get very little from that price anyway, and concerts are obviously a method that’s good enough for making money. Sceptics were saying that only bands of Radiohead’s fame could afford something like this, which is obviously wrong – on contrary, it gives unknown bands huge potential of getting heard. I doubt I’d ever hear this band if there wasn’t for this for instance.
And I’m glad I found them because their blend of post-punk music is excellent! You will read something like: “From a broad pallet of musical preferences, the band develops its sound that is compared to divergent bands like Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Placebo, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine and Interpol.” I never take that kind of comparisons too seriously because they sound too perfect but I am already playing this on repeat, and it seems like a grower. Some trivia: the keyboard player is from The Gathering, the famous goth-metal band.
