Hvis du læst postet for en dag siden, dette er alle samme, men i engelsk. Der er ikke nogle ny.
It was my birthday last week -- 6. June. (If you missed it, don’t feel bad -- I’d just as soon have missed it as well -- but if you really feel bad, I guess I’ll still accept belated gifts. Mp3s are good.) Technically, I’ve turned twenty, but I don’t like the number twenty as an age, so I’ve decided I’ll be nineteen for another year. (I’d rather be twenty-one, but that doesn’t really work in the lovely prohibition-obssessed US.) But really, whatever I say, I’m not a teenager anymore. And I’m a bit sad about that.
But -- what I have today -- news about people who are still teenagers. First, Dúné. They are from Skive, in Jutland, and are all -- there are seven of them -- eighteen or nineteen years old. I thought they were older when I first heard them, because they sound much more organized and together than most bands made up of kids. But they’ve been playing together for six years -- maybe that’s why. They’re a bit louder than most of the music I listen to, and I can’t think of any bands to compare them to -- they’re unique, I guess -- but they are good. And by good, I probably mean really kinda great.
Dúné has a new album, called We Are In There You Are Out Here, and it is quite good. I especially like A Blast Beat, and Bloodlines, the most popular, is also nice. But I think my favorite song is Robot Beat, from their 2005 EP. But all of their songs are good. You can’t download any of them -- but you can stream all of the songs on their website, on the media page. It says the songs are only 30-second samples, but they’re the whole things, and that’s supercool.
Also -- remember when I was talking about remixes? Dúné will let you remix not just one, but three of their songs -- A Blast Beat, Dry Lips, and/or John Wayne vs. Mary Chain. You can download them here. (It's all in Danish, but the links are easy enough to find at the bottom.) And that’s a contest as well -- it ends 24. August. (If you want the Danish rules explained to you, email me, because I actually managed to read them all.)
Okay. Next band -- Electrojuice. They’re also from Denmark, also from Jutland -- from Århus. And they are even younger than Dúné -- they’re two boys, and they’re thirteen and fourteen years old. I also couldn’t believe that, but it’s the truth. They make electronic music and do remixes, and, I think, even if they were twice their ages, they would be excellent. But they are not twice their ages, and their youth, I think, just makes them even better.
I don’t think there are many people listening to them, although I can’t understand why. You should download their song Cut Your Fingers Off, and it will have you dancing…
Also -- this seems like an appropriate place to write about this other band, The Teenagers. I think they’re all in their twenties, but, you know, the name… They’re from France, but now live in England. They half-sing, half-speak indie-pop songs (I guess that’s what I’d say) with a lot of rather inappropriate language. If you’re easily offended by the gratuitous (and it’s certainly gratuitous -- they say, being French, that they didn’t know those words were so offensive in English, though I don’t quite buy it) use of four-letter words, you probably won’t like them. But if you’re okay with that -- well, I think The Teenagers are really excellent -- and, yes, their lyrics too.
You can stream four of their songs on their (extremely colorful) myspace, and five of their remixes on their other myspace. I love their remix of Au Revoir Simone’s Fallen Snow, but it’s not on there anymore. You can probably find it somewhere online if you care to look a bit, though. You can also, with much less work, watch their video for Homecoming, and it is very cute, but also kind of… not so cute -- you know? But I have to love it.
--DL--
Cut Your Fingers Off (Electrojuice) - two clicks; sorry; myspace is stupid
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