Om Tiger Baby

High time I wrote something about my favorite, favorite Danish band, Tiger Baby. It's been so long because every once in a while -- okay, fairly frequently -- I'll discover someone new and become obsessed with them. However, new things become old and then, rummaging through my iTunes, I run across Tiger Baby, and every time this happens, I first wonder how I've managed to live without them for five days, and then I lie on the floor and just think -- Oh. My. God. Tiger Baby is so (so with about eight os) good.

I've written a good deal about them, mostly in emails to the one other person in the world who loves Tiger Baby as much as I do -- so it's nice that we know each other and can discuss the awesomeness of the band, but none of these writings have been much use to the general public. I'll attempt to rectify this, but again I'm faced with an impossible task -- Tiger Baby is so wonderful that there simply aren't adequate words to describe them.

A good example: I am unable to pick a favorite Tiger Baby song. I'll be listening to one, and think, oh, yes, this is my favorite -- but then the song ends, the next one comes on, and immediately -- no, this one has to be my favorite. This happens with every track -- every single one. To be honest, I can't understand why they're not internationally renowned -- they're just so perfect and awesome. They make very gorgeous electro-pop music, and they're from Denmark, and they're called Tiger Baby, and everything about them is awesome.

You can listen to a good amount of their music without paying any money (although you should of course support them financially if you are able). Their entire second album, the absolutely phenomenal 'Noise Around Me,' is available for full preview on last.fm, where you can also download four songs and, chances are, look at a photograph of my eye that was taken in fifth grade. In case this temptation has still left you undermotivated, I'll give you one song to start with -- At Least I'm Honest.

Now, other stuff -- since they've just released their album in Germany, there's a neat German TV interview (in which they speak English) with Pernille and Nikolaj, two thirds of the band (the other third is named Benjamin), which you can watch on YouTube. It has two parts, but the second one should pop up immediately there. You can also visit the band's myspace, where there are a few other downloads, and if you still crave more, check out their media page for a few more -- and the Girlfriend video.

If I haven't endorsed them enough, let me add this one last thing -- you may think you don't like electro-pop music or whatever, and in general, you may not -- but specifically, in this case, anyway, you're wrong. You will like Tiger Baby. You can't not like them. Unless you love them, that is.

--DL--
At Least I'm Honest (Tiger Baby)