Unless you have a private jet and/or live in Norway, you are probably not going to the Øya Festival, which is happening right now. Bummer, no? We hear you. Explore this playlist–over half of which is Norwegian-made!–eat some smoked salmon and lefse and you will basically replicate the experience. And you won't pay like thirty dollars for one beer.
This is the fourth of a series of downloads we're running over the next few days highlighting the homegrown Norwegian talent playing this year's Øya Festival.
Bergen is generally known as Norway's–and, by extension, the world's–Capital of Black Metal, but Blood Command owe less to their hometown's blackened doom and gloom than they do melodic American hardcore greats like Lifetime and Kid Dynamite. Which is really perfect–they've got a top-notch frontwoman in Silje Tombre who can ably morph from singer to banshee at the drop of a leaden kick drum. "On And On Chameleon" is from their new album, Ghostclocks, which dropped earlier this summer via Oslo's Fysisk Format.
This is the third of a series of downloads we're running over the next few days highlighting the homegrown Norwegian talent playing this year's Øya Festival.
Thermally rousing electronic-pop here from Lucy Swann, the kind that sounds like flowers sprouting from the earth in time lapse or a unicorn galloping over sand dunes. Basically, it's really pretty! The original version is on her album, Le Petite Mort, which is out now through Norway's Trust Me, which is also a killer name for a record label. (Way better than just dropping vowels.)
This is the second of a series of downloads we're running over the next few days highlighting the homegrown Norwegian talent playing this year's Øya Festival.
Bands like The Megaphonic Thrift make us wonder if Sonic Youth is the most influential post-sixties American rock band instead of, say, Nirvana, or the Ramones, or the Stooges. That squall-of-feedback coda–not to mention the half-dissonant guitar anti-heroism heard everywhere else–is wholly indebted to them. And there's nothing wrong with that. Sonic Youth are awesome. So is this song.
This is the first of a series of downloads we're running over the next few days highlighting the homegrown Norwegian talent playing this year's Øya Festival.
European dance music doesn't have to be this faceless, machinist, overly serious construction. Take, for instance, Oslo's Ost & Kjex, two divas in bowler hats melting their falsettos over curvy, funky, well-dressed tech-house. "Continental Lover" is the Prince-in-Panorama-Bar single from their new album, Cajun Lunch, out now via preeminent Hamburg outpost Diynamic.
This year, RCRD LBL attended the Oya Festival and was shell-shocked by the amount of indie talent there. Bundled in the mix was a new-comer, Lama, (i.e. Nils Martin Larsen) who performed live with a 6-piece band. While the live show is meant to shock the senses, the track below portrays a softer side of Lama. It's woozy and dream-like, evoking the computer wizardry of Radiohead and atmospheric tendrils of Sigur Ros.
Hottest site on the net!? Oh Malice, you're making us blush. But you heard it from one of our heroes, the Pattycake Man himself. Stay tuned for more exclusives, more hot tracks, and of course our daily editorial attack formations! You know what it is—R-C-R-D-G-A-N-G! Much love and respect to Clipse and Oya Festival!
Last week, we let you drool over Lykke Li’s newest video. To begin this week off fresh, despite a grizzly day, we've been warming up to this remix of "Little Bit," gifted with the midas touch of Tim Goldsworthy (i.e. Loving Hand, DFA founder, former UNKLE drummer, and the producer you can kowtow to after you listen to Cut Copy or The Rapture). What he's done? Taken Lykke Li's saccharine vocals off the throne, supersized the track, added additional percussion effects to give it a celestial sans-gravity atmosphere, and injected a jazzy sax mid-way through the end. The result? Jets you off to Jupiter while the rest of the office is sitting around wondering whether to order Kung-fu chicken or Moo-shu salad for lunch. Enjoy the escape.
Sounds Like: Cut Copy, Berlin (i.e. The Metro), Apes & Androids (when they sound like Bowie)
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