This is old news, I'm sure. But lately I’ve been thinking about Peter Björn and John a lot -- lamenting the fact that, due to the
Anyway, at some point, I began thinking of what bands I would suggest to someone if I worked in a record store and they asked for the Peter Björn and John album and we had run out. (This will never happen, though, because (one) girls don’t get to work in record stores and (two) even if they did, no one, anywhere, will hire me. (I don’t know why this is. I’m an excellent worker.) Of course, if you’d like to prove me wrong and offer me a job, please feel free to do so.) I thought of epo-555.
epo-555 is one of my favorite Danish bands -- they easily rank in the top five -- but, probably due to the fact that I’ve been unable to find any downloadable songs of theirs (and I can’t afford to buy any -- see the above paragraph for an explanation why), I have this odd tendency to go for long periods of time without listening to them. I also have only heard only a small portion of their rather sizeable catalogue of music.
My favorite, right now, is one of the newest tracks, Sugarspiced Suicide. You can find it on the Radioaktiv 7” (also available on iTunes -- but not on CD). Happily, you can now get this one scrobbled, because it is up on last.fm (along with four others, the best of which is Le Beat’s On Fire). You can also listen to all four songs from the EP on epo-555’s myspace. (That's the news.) And their website’s music/video page is quite nice as well – nine songs to stream, as well as four videos. And, okay, I lied. You can download Angelina Ballerina, from Dexter Fox.
If you like epo-555, you should also look into a couple of the band members’ side projects. Oliver North Boy Choir (who you should already know) is current epo-555 singer/guitarist Mikkel-Max Hansen and former member Camilla Florentz, plus Ivan Petersen (who's not in epo-555).
Evil Death Machine is epo-555 bassist Hans Emil Hansen (who also did Traening, which was a wonderful band that broke up in 2005 and left absolutely no evidence of their existence on the Internet or in US record stores; if you know where I can find any of their music, please let me know).
Both of these projects have rather intimidating names, but the music is actually very similar to the epo-555 sound, meaning nice, soft, soothing, dreamy. Et cetera. You can download all six tracks from Evil Death Machine’s demo on last.fm. I think everyone’s favorite seems to be Things I Stole, but they’re all good.
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