The year 2009: Paddling Ghost

Downloading didn’t kill the music in the new decade. It has once again been a very good year with lots of great records, hit singles and bands touring around the world. Seeing Bedroom Community at the “Nye rødder” festival was the best concert this year, but unknown “Boy without god” made a fine appearance at Lades.

At the event “Night before New Years Eve” I played these songs as the top 5

Dan Deacon – Paddling Ghost
The Horrors – Sea within a sea
Animal Collective – My Girls
The Big Pink – Crystal Vision
Oneida – The River

Dan Deacon is wacky electronica. The layers are somewhat simple, the tunes are high pitched and the energy is impressive. I’m absolutely crazy about “Bromst” record and I could have played both “Build voice”, “Snookered” and “Paddling Ghost” as my favorite track this year.
The Horrors have huge success in Britain, but in Denmark it seems like people don’t really find it interesting. “Sea within a sea” is a perfect blend of Neu! and Joy Division. I’m not raised with these two band, so I have no romantic feelings about the cannibalization.
Animal Collective were mentioned on almost every hit list, both the independent as well as established magazines. “My Girls” is just above almost everything I’ve heard this year always making me happy when listening to the song.
The Big Pink has as well been hyped. As I mentioned I started to listen to them rather late. But none the less “Crystal Visions” (and “Dominos”, “Velvet” and “At War with the Sun”) are among the songs I’ve been listening to the most this year. It’s not original in any sense, but I love the walls of guitars…
Oneida probably made the most interesting record this year, if you ask me. “The River” has a good drive and the sound is both primal and rough. You should check it out, if you are into raw rock music.

This year the “joker” was related to the best musicvideo. I chose Röyksopp “This must be it”.

Worth mentioning is that Jeppsson became a member of our “Night before New Years Ever”. And we had community singing to a Lemonheads cover version of Gram Parson thanks to Mikkel. Most played were Animal Collective, Muse and Morrissey with two each.

Just listened to… The Big Pink

I don’t like when bands are getting to much hype. I tend to get uninterested and neglect the fact that the music is good. The Big Pink released their debut “A Brief History Of Love” on 4AD in September this year and it’s a wonderful shoegaze indiepop album.

Sure they sound like early Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Spacemen 3 and Jesus and Mary Chain. But then again: all popbands have a reference to another band through history. Who cares?

Favorite tracks are “Dominos”, “Crystal Visions” and “At war with the sun”. Go check it out!

Band website: http://www.musicfromthebigpink.com/
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink