I can’t say I’m that into the Danish music scene really. Never liked Mew, and I’ve heard a couple of Danish indie bands, but they’ve usually just struck me as pretty average.
The Devil Probably, however, grabbed my attention. It’s minimalistic pop with a pinch of shoegaze. Catchy indie pop that fades into heavy guitar droning and then gracefully back again. Seriously, it’s great. I want to hear more of this.
If I were to describe their sound, I’d say it’s like Windmill had teamed up with Why? and had Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes sing. Insane, but that’s about what it sounds like.
The brilliant Dave Mahler has made music videos for several norwegian bands, among them The Firefly Effect. His videos are great and he seems to have good taste in music too.
The Swedish indie pop band Heart-Sick Groans have, with the help of a bunch of students from a Danish drawing academy, made a really cool music video for their song “Three Day Blow,” which will be featured on their upcoming EP Gentlemen, If you aint right, get right.
The video has a very DIY-feel over it and is downright charming, though I must say that the faces of the paper dolls kind of creep me out. Well, take a look yourself. The video is cool and the song is nice and catchy.
Hiawata! and their label SellOut! Music are feeling the christmas spirit extra early this year and wants to give something to you, so they’re releasing a Hiawata! single for free.
Dave Mahler is a 17-year-old from Australia and he has just recently finished making a music video for the song “All The Jokes Are On Me” from the Norwegian band Firefly Effects. He’s also made videos for Le Corbeau and Koppen.
The video is made up of as much as 1640 hand drawn and water colored frames and it took him four months to make it. With pastel colors and a that hand drawn style, it looks really good. Most people will probably think of A-ha’s “Take on Me”, though I’d say this one has a lot more charm.
Beezewax shouldn’t need any presentation, but unfortunately, they do. They never had a real breakthrough in Norway, and that’s a shame. Beezewax is a great pop band from Østfold with great songs, great melodies, epic guitars and lovely noise. Although their albums have been well recieved by critics, they’ve never made any commercial success, even though they have made five fantastic albums, and a few EP’s as well.
Yoyoyo Acapulco are an indie pop band playing cute, quirky ukulele-based pop music with kind of naive and catchy lyrics. You’d think that “Heey, they’re probably from Oslo or Bergen, right?”, but no. These guys are from no other place than Vestre Gausdal. Not your first guess, huh? I can’t help but love their simple, yet extremely catchy tunes.
I play the ukulele a bit myself actually, and these guys are really my main inspiration and the true reason why I started playing. Thanks!
They played at the Øya Festival in 2008, I was there and, despite the fact that the bubble-machine sprayed bubbles in my face the whole time, it was definitely one of the best shows at Øya that year. They played in a tiny tent, without that stopping them from making it a big show. Rather, it was the fact that it was a small, crowded tent that really made the mood.