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VAR

NO ONE DANCES QUITE LIKE MY BROTHERS (SACRED BONES)

VAR - NO ONE DANCES QUITE LIKE MY BROTHERS 61234
format:
1 CD
release:
17.05.2013
label:
SACRED BONES
item ID:
61234
barcode:
0616892115045
VÅR is the project of four best friends from Copenhagen. Each member of the band is involved in several other Danish bands and all four members are also accomplished visual artists.

What began as the extremely lo-fi two-piece of Elias Ronnenfelt (ICEAGE) and Loke Rahbek (LUST FOR YOUTH) recording on 4-track has evolved into an experimental noise/ industrial/ techno pop quartet.

On this album VÅR utilize everything from acoustic guitar, power electronics, bass, trumpet, multi-tracked vocals, and various percussive instruments, to broken glass & sheet metal samples.

"No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers" was engineered by Sean Ragon (CULT OF YOUTH) and features guest appearances by PHARMAKON & RAGON.

It is a remarkable debut, an emotional roller coaster of sorts which at times is profoundly uplifting, at times decidedly morose but remains unfail¬ingly moving throughout.

Holing up in the extremely cramped and oft over-heated quarters of Sean Ragon's self-built studio in the back of his Bushwick record store Heaven Street, the band wrote and recorded their first full length during two intense weeks last summer.

Exploring themes of love, loss, vanity, hope, fear, sexuality and friendship and drawing more on literary influences than musical ones (Bataille and Shaffer, specifically), the band craft an album which cannot be confined by any singular sub-genre.

Words like "industrial" and "electronic" fall short here; they barely begin to scratch the surface of this work.

This is soundtrack music for a play that has only begun to be imagined and is light years away from being consummated.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. BEGIN TO REMEMBER
  • 1.2. THE WORLD FELL
  • 1.3. NO ONE DANCES QUITE LIKE MY BROTHERS
  • 1.4. MOTIONLESS DUTIES
  • 1.5. HAIR LIKE FEATHERS
  • 1.6. PICTURES OF TODAY / VICTORIAL
  • 1.7. BOY
  • 1.8. INTO DISTANCE
  • 1.9. KATLA