The best Danish records of 2005
Finally I turned in my paper and my exams are over which means I have vacation until the beginning of february. That means that I will have at lot more time to write here. As 2005 has ended it is time to elect the best albums of the year. I'm not quite ready with my overall list - there's just too many to consider - but I can reveal which Danish that fell in my liking. Sorted alphabetically they are:
Causa Sui: Causa Sui
- This is the guys from Limp in disguise with Kasper Markus on vocal, who to me is fairly unknown. They're inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Can and The Stooges and as such they play a voluminous, heavy psych stoner rock that is high-ceilinged. It's bombastic as hell and what's particularly interesting about them is the mixing with beautiful, spacious noise as played by My Bloody Valentine. A great blend of traditional heavy psych, some eastern folk music and modern, soft swirling noise. Chaotic and soothing.
Double Space: Double Space
- First off I must inform you that these are some of my friends so I won't get accused of subliminal advertising. But I actually do think this is good. Only a demo, but a nice example of where they're heading, and shows what great ideas they have. They try to combine dirty noiserock with sludge/stoner rock and succeed. It's heavy and filthy as a tractor in the mud, but moves swift like a rat. Well, you get the picture. They're up the alley of Hammerhead/Vaz, but Double Space has a psychedelic touch to them and more complex structures.
Melk: Sports
- I couldn't imagine a more succesful soundtrack for my hot summer nights. This is hiphop but with some sparkling dub-influences that grooves through out the album and some Prefuse 73-like cut-up techniques. Split between instrumental songs and songs with vocal or rap, Sports is rather varied and have a political agenda as well as more laidback chill-in-the-summertime-reminders. If I didn't know I would never have guessed this as Danish.
Menfolk: Colossus
- Play/Rec are doing quite fine with these posthardcore/mathrock-releases. This is the best yet to come from the label with a lot of complex structures, speaking/screaming vocals and great songs. Politically aware (against the Bush administration of course) and skilled on their instruments they serve as a perfect offer for fans of Shellac and the whole mathrock-movement (if one indeed exists).
Mork: Keisaku Muscle-harbour
- I'm not sure I've heard anything like this before. They say they're a indie band playing with the sound of a metal band and that's pretty much as close as you can get at describing their music. Sometimes the vocal sound like Chino of Deftones, other times like some postpunk lunatic. The structure of the songs is very experimental and only the progressive rock/metal of Thought Industry come to my mind in comparison. They shift between very heavy riffs and acoustic guitars that make them sound like nothing else but a indie band. Lo-fi noises and squeaking is all over the album and makes it very atmospheric. Definetely one of the most exceptional metal-albums I've heard the last couple of years.
Utah: Break the Mould
- Most likely the next music export from Denmark. They're masters at writing catchy tunes and fall somewhere in between the dark country of 16 Horsepower and the ethereal tones of Interpol. This is just an EP and it is only a matter of time before they have a lucrative record deal for their debut if this world is just.
Causa Sui: Causa Sui
- This is the guys from Limp in disguise with Kasper Markus on vocal, who to me is fairly unknown. They're inspired by Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, Can and The Stooges and as such they play a voluminous, heavy psych stoner rock that is high-ceilinged. It's bombastic as hell and what's particularly interesting about them is the mixing with beautiful, spacious noise as played by My Bloody Valentine. A great blend of traditional heavy psych, some eastern folk music and modern, soft swirling noise. Chaotic and soothing.
Double Space: Double Space
- First off I must inform you that these are some of my friends so I won't get accused of subliminal advertising. But I actually do think this is good. Only a demo, but a nice example of where they're heading, and shows what great ideas they have. They try to combine dirty noiserock with sludge/stoner rock and succeed. It's heavy and filthy as a tractor in the mud, but moves swift like a rat. Well, you get the picture. They're up the alley of Hammerhead/Vaz, but Double Space has a psychedelic touch to them and more complex structures.
Melk: Sports
- I couldn't imagine a more succesful soundtrack for my hot summer nights. This is hiphop but with some sparkling dub-influences that grooves through out the album and some Prefuse 73-like cut-up techniques. Split between instrumental songs and songs with vocal or rap, Sports is rather varied and have a political agenda as well as more laidback chill-in-the-summertime-reminders. If I didn't know I would never have guessed this as Danish.
Menfolk: Colossus
- Play/Rec are doing quite fine with these posthardcore/mathrock-releases. This is the best yet to come from the label with a lot of complex structures, speaking/screaming vocals and great songs. Politically aware (against the Bush administration of course) and skilled on their instruments they serve as a perfect offer for fans of Shellac and the whole mathrock-movement (if one indeed exists).
Mork: Keisaku Muscle-harbour
- I'm not sure I've heard anything like this before. They say they're a indie band playing with the sound of a metal band and that's pretty much as close as you can get at describing their music. Sometimes the vocal sound like Chino of Deftones, other times like some postpunk lunatic. The structure of the songs is very experimental and only the progressive rock/metal of Thought Industry come to my mind in comparison. They shift between very heavy riffs and acoustic guitars that make them sound like nothing else but a indie band. Lo-fi noises and squeaking is all over the album and makes it very atmospheric. Definetely one of the most exceptional metal-albums I've heard the last couple of years.
Utah: Break the Mould
- Most likely the next music export from Denmark. They're masters at writing catchy tunes and fall somewhere in between the dark country of 16 Horsepower and the ethereal tones of Interpol. This is just an EP and it is only a matter of time before they have a lucrative record deal for their debut if this world is just.
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