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Figurines

2005.12.09

— Music

Forget those so-called “next big things” who pop up every week in the wonderful world of indie music, usually coming from the UK. Forget the Editors, Kaiser Chiefs, Arctic Monkeys. Be curious. And discover this great band from Denmark, Figurines…

Honestly, I simply don’t understand why they’re not more famous outside their home country. They’ve got everything you need to sell out and become something big: they’re four cute boys playing pop tunes with energy and passion, some kind of music that sounds -sometimes- like the Shins. They rock, undoubtedly.

Figurines were formed sometime in the mid 90s by the three childhood friends Christian Hjelm, Andreas Toft, and Claus S. Johansen. Their first album, “Shake a Mountain”, was released in April 2003 in Denmark and in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in the spring of 2004. The album contained, among others, the song “Bright”, which was #1 on the Danish Alternative Chart for a couple of weeks in August 2003 (download the video here). That same year the band also had their debut on the Roskilde Festival.

Two years after the release of “Shake A Mountain”, in 2005, Figurines released their second full-length album “Skeleton”. The album was recorded in Tambourine Studios in Malmö and Destruction Studios in Aarhus. The song “The Wonder” was #1 on the Danish Alternative Chart for a couple of weeks in April 2005 (mp3 here and video here). Skeleton was released in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria in June 2005 on German record label Pop-U-Loud. Both a 7″ vinyl and the Skeleton album will be released in Canada and the US in January and April 2006 respectively on American label The Control Group.

Okay, maybe time will help. If you just can’t wait the next american release of this terrific album that will make you dance till the end of night, you still can order it at Vibrashop, for instance.

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