photo: Simon Højbo Hansen
The Danes have been adding a little spice to dance rock recently. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are the best known act to come out of Denmark, but there are plenty more. Snake & Jet's Amazing Bullit Band is a duo who mix raw guitar with old school keyboards. Thor Rasmussen and Thomas Teilmann Frederiksen have a good ear for danceable chord progressions and cheesy laptop programming sounds that will work as an instant floor-filler.
Their album Peace Boat is a half hour escape from the credit crunch and global warming. Matt Verta-Ray and Jon Spencer were enlisted to add the guitar mayhem. The deadpan vocals make a nice contrast with the bouncy back beat.
Peace Boat is released on Crunchy Frog.
Tracks:
- A Dinner With
- Introducing
- Eat My Rolex
- Hydrophone
- Smiling Makes Bitter
- The Many Colours of Mr. Van X
- Sleeping Turtleneck
- Washed Out
- Modernist Road Trip
- Sea Greens
- Show And Tell
- Quietron
- 07/06 CPH Jazz Festival @ M/S Stubnitz (Locomusic), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 08/02 Sommarscen Malmö Malmö, Sweden
- 08/08 InMusic Festival, Beijing, China
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