Club 8
Group: Club 8
Style: Electronica/ Indie Pop
From: Sweden
Site: Club-8.org, Myspace.com, Last.fm
Band:
Karolina Komstedt - Vocal
Johan Angergård - Guitar
About:
Club 8 is a Swedish musical group consisting of Karolina Komstedt (from the band Poprace) and Johan Angergård
(Acid House Kings, Poprace). Formed in 1995, they were immediately signed to the Spanish record label Siesta. They
released a single called "Me Too" and an album called Nouvelle on Siesta before deciding to move on to other labels.
The sound at this point could almost be categorised as anorak pop with influences from Sarah bands, Jim Ruiz and The Smiths.
In 1998, their second album The Friend I Once Had and the single "Missing You" were released. "Missing you" become a club
and radio hit in Spain and somewhat of a college radio favorite in the US. The band started playing live. Their first gig was in
New York at a March Records CMJ event in 1999. Their sound had by now developed into a more bossa nova and dance
oriented one. Striving for constant change and improvements the band once again changed musical direction on their third
and self-titled album in 2001. Club 8 is a beautifully laid back album. Almost a chill out album, though it was more compared
to Portishead and Air and called a triphop album at its release.
In the autumn of 2001, the band locked themselves in the famous Summersound Studios; writing songs and experimenting
with different sounds. Dub, C-86, triphop, chill out, 80's and bossa nova are all mixed up here, but without ever losing focus
on those wonderfully Scandinavian and melancholic pop melodies. The album was named Spring Came, Rain Fell and was
released in the year of 2002.
In 2002, Club 8 started working on a follow up for Spring Came, Rain Fell. The result, Strangely Beautiful, peaked at number
18 on the CMJ charts in the US.
For the first time since 1999, the band released a single from the album and a corresponding video. Backed by five exclusive
tracks, the song "Saturday Night Engine" was released as a single in the spring of 2003. The video made it to number 16 on
the Up North chart on MTV Nordic.
After "Strangely Beautiful" Johan Angergård formed The Legends and recorded 3 albums from 2004-2006 and recorded
another Acid House Kings album in 2005. After being on hiatus since 2003 Club 8 finally released their 6th album The Boy
Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming on Labrador in 2007.
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Music:
1996 - Nouvelle (155-207 kb/ps) ~ 33.26 mb
01 - Blue Skies
02 - Don't Be Gone
03 - Breakdown
04 - She Never Calls Me
05 - Love Affair
06 - Sunday Afternoon
07 - Those Charming Men
08 - All Dressed Up and Shy
09 - I Guess I Was Wrong
10 - Look Out!
1998 - The Friend I Once Had (192 kb/ps) ~ 42.12 mb
01 - Everlasting Love
02 - All I Can Do
03 - Someday
04 - I Wish You'd Stay
05 - Holiday
06 - The End of the Affair
07 - Summer Rain
08 - Calcutta
09 - Tomorrow Never Comes
10 - Better Days
11 - Karen
12 - Missing You
2001 - Club 8 (138-208 kb/ps) ~ 44.94 mb
01 - Love in December
02 - Boyfriends Stay
03 - She Lives by the Water
04 - The Sand and the Sea
05 - Falling From Grace
06 - Hope for Winter
07 - London
08 - Say a Prayer
09 - A Place in My Heart
10 - I Don't Need Anyone
11 - Keeping Track of Time
2002 - Spring Came, Rain Fell (192 kb/ps) ~ 44.52 mb
01 - We're Simple Minds
02 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
03 - Spring Song
04 - Close to Me
05 - Baby, I'm Not Sure If This Is Love
06 - The Chance I Deserve
07 - I Give Up Too
08 - Friends and Lovers
09 - Teenage Life
10 - Karen Song
11 - The Girl in the Northern Soul Collection
12 - We Set Ourselves Free
2003 - Saturday Night Engine EP (192 kb/ps) ~ 24.91 mb
01 - Saturday Night Engine
02 - I Have No Better Plan
03 - So Tied Up
04 - Giza
05 - People Who Would Go for You
06 - Sometimes I Feel Like a Loser
2003 - Strangely Beautiful (320 kb/ps) ~ 73.97 mb
01 - When Lights Go Out
02 - What Shall We Do Next
03 - I Wasn't Much of a Fight
04 - Stay by My Side
05 - Cold Hearts
06 - Between Waking and Sleeping
07 - This Is the Morning
08 - The Next Step You'll Take
09 - The Beauty of the Way We're Living
10 - Saturday Night Engine
11 - We Move in Silence
2007 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming (171-256 kb/ps) ~ 56.87 mb
01 - Jesus, Walk With Me
02 - Whatever You Want
03 - Football Kids
04 - Hopes and Dreams
05 - Everything Goes
06 - Heaven
07 - When I Come Around
08 - Leave the North
09 - In the Morning
10 - Sometimes
11 - Where Birds Don't Fly
12 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Comment:
Потрясающий шведский indie pop.
Совместный проект участников групп
Poprace и Acid House Kings.
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