I don't feel like saying much these days. Feels better to just look and listen.

Efterklang: Cutting Ice to Snow


Efterklang - Cutting Ice To Snow from Rumraket on Vimeo.

Mimas: Beneath the glad sunbeam

Mimas - The Worries

So I got Mimas - The Worries, a while ago. So I should write something. As far as I know it is hardly out in Denmark, and I got it in the mail with a cute handwritten note by Daniel in the band.
Some of the tracks I have already listen to a thousand times, before they made the cd, but I can't seem to get enough, even now. Opening is the beautiful Treehouse, almost certainly made for the purpose of opening. Mac is nicely energetic. Dads is one of the main pieces on Worries in my opinion (and probably in their own opinion, considering the chant in it). The quiet trumpet bit with the kids in the middle makes my skin crawl. Why in the world not? changes the mood of the cd. Now it's darker, more serious. Keep quiet and Beneath the glad sunbeam are favourites.
It is no wonder that this record had to be made in the UK, it is much too big for DK, but also too weird, bloody and pretty.
Thank you - come again...
Soon!

AU - RR vs. D

Rokland

Stormland is another one of these fictions that take a very critical stance on modern life. Maybe it is just a coincidence that I seem to be reading these lately - or maybe this is merely what I focus on when reading them. I'm a slow reader, because I tend to wander of into other things in my mind. This means that I also relate fiction closely to my own life and the way I see the world. But who doesn't do that?

These two Swedish girls (age 15 and 17!) are called First Aid Kit and do a brilliant cover of Fleet Foxes. Their own stuff is also very nice.

Mimas

I recently preordered Mimas' "The Worries". They are one of my favourites of late and the preview "Dads" on myspace is brilliant.
So you preorder it too, please :) So we can listen together...
Also I did finish that book, mentioned earlier, but I can't be bother with what to think or write about it right now.

Mirador

#67 Efterklang - Mirador
by lecargo

Beijing 2008

Seems these Olympic games will be a huge disappointment from a Danish point of view.
Men's handball, the most followed of the Danish atlets, barely won their first game yesterday.
So I will enjoy some music instead.

I have been getting back into the amazing stuff from E Bird

Also this morning I have just been listening to the latest preview of one of my favourite bands Mimas - Dads
It seems so long until October 6th, but I wait in eager expectation.

I might post on a book I am reading - once I finish it. "Stormland" in Danish or "Rokland" in Icelandic by Hallgrímur Helgason.
By saying this - I am forcing myself into finishing it.
All I can say now is that it, ironically, is about a unemployed gymnasium teacher.