release date: Jun. 2, 2014
format: digital (5 x File, FLAC)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,84]
producer: Blaue Blume
label: MBO - nationality: Denmark
Tracklist: 1. "Birthday" (4,5 / 5) - 2. "Lost Sons of Boys" (4 / 5) (live) - 3. "In Disco Lights" (4 / 5) - 4. "Lemon Tree" (3,5 / 5) - 5. "Conventional Dreams (Our House)" (3 / 5)
5-track studio ep debut album by Blaue Blume, a Danish band consisting of composer Jonas Holst Smith on vocals and rhythm guitar, Peter Bøgvad on bass, and the brothers Jensen Buhl: Robert on lead guitar and Søren on drums.
I first heard the band play live at the Danish music award show Gaffa Prisen. They played the track "Lost Sons of Boys" at an instrumentally and technically very high level. Most extraordinary, though, is the strong and charachteristic vocal of Jonas Smith who sings like a clone of Antony Hegarty, Morrissey, and Elizabeth Fraser [!] of Cocteau Twins. "In Disco Lights" sounds much like a cover of / tribute to several songs by Cocteau Twins in their classic dream pop style, but the other tracks point more in the direction of Antony & The Johnsons without obvious chamber pop but with art pop and neo-psychedelic pop as the most obvious styles.
I'm really impressed by the band's skills and of this first release, although, it really points in several directions. It's quite un-Danish and very British in style and in a way that could make it difficult for the band to be noticed, but they do deserve a closer attention, and I'm really looking forward to hear their first full studio album release, which should be planned for release in 2015.
Highly recommended.
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