The Mary Onettes...totally blown away

[Frau_Blucher]

Yeah, I know I'm guilty of the occasional hyperbole, embellishment, rhetoric, even some puffery and some possible fuckery...but I shit you not, these guys are just blowing me away. Best stuff I've heard this year.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eNiIJ84zWUk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j4fMyDGa0lw

Other really good songs like "Void" and "Lost" too. Have you heard these guys already? Am I just being a noob?! Okay, so maybe it's the fact that they feel like the Swedish BSP meets Echo & the Bunnymen. [:I]

[Frau_Blucher]

Dammit, who else? A little Ultravox maybe??

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7A7V2wRRZ8M

Ah, "Lost" stream at Pitchfork...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/d ... s-lost-mp3

Dammit, now I'm kinda embarrassed to be so predictable... [8D]

"The Mary Onettes, a guitars-and-keyboards band from Sweden, don't make any excuses about sounding awfully 80s, and their indie-romantic touchstones aren't so different from any other new-wavers': This debut album includes broad, obvious borrows from both New Order and the Cure, and fainter echoes of plenty of other stars from that constellation. The main difference is the side of this stuff that they're interested in borrowing. These days, lots of acts look back on New Order as the serious-minded dance-music pioneers who made "Blue Monday"; the Mary Onettes sound more intrigued by the swoony, chart-topping pop of a song like [b]"Regret"[/b]. Lots of acts draw on the Cure for their spikiness, their spookiness, their goth; the Mary Onettes would rather compete with [b]"Just Like Heaven."[/b] When they reach the height of unembarrassed pop on this record-- on a song called "Under the Guillotine", which their singer pronounces, lovably, "gilly-o-teen"-- it's not hard to imagine them being shoved unnoticed into a glossy 80s-station lunchtime playlist, somewhere around [b]"I Melt With You"[/b] and "Take On Me" and [b]"Under the Milky Way"[/b]."

[coop41]

I first heard these guys in April, their song Void and liked it very much. As far as I know they have an ep and an LP if you are interested, let me know[;)]

[DJ Lestat]

Holy shit Blir! This is really good stuff! Love it! Thanks for poastin it!
Edit: Just grabbed the album: posted in alt.binaries.sounds.mp3

[Frau_Blucher]

Just ordered the album. These damned compulsions of mine.

Meanwhile, their song "Explosions" that got featured in Grey's Anatomy is pretty reminiscent of The Jesus and Mary Chain. (just ignore the dorky montage)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i1qY0sLcYEw

[schwenko]

When will they play the Mercury Lounge?[:D]

[DJ Lestat]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>Just ordered the album. These damned compulsions of mine.

Meanwhile, their song "Explosions" that got featured in Grey's Anatomy is pretty reminiscent of The Jesus and Mary Chain. (just ignore the dorky montage)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i1qY0sLcYEw
[/quote]

So very "Just Like Honey"!!! Love it!

[DonGately]

Wow, this is very good. Nice find! Amazon has the debut as an import only for $22, but it's available on iTunes for $10.

[djcraig]

Good stuff. Watching the video I couldn't help but draw some comparison to The Moody Blues. The lead singer of the band reminds me a bit of Justin Hayward in both looks and voice.

<a href="http://www.djcraig.net/los_angeles_dj">DJ Craig</a>

[Frau_Blucher]

Got the CD today...really pretty packaging. The insert has a matt finish cover which actually is cut out to the photo below. The inner pages all high gloss with a couple more pics and full lyrics. Nicely done! Highly recommended.

<img src="http://cdn.last.fm/coverart/300x300/3267673.jpg">

[Otters Walk Among Us]

I've had Void on otter pop radio for quite awhile now.

I was going to buy the album, but I figured it would eventually be released in the US (and now that they've been on Grey's Anatomy, I'm sure it will) with extra tracks.

Of course, in my world, Labrador Records can do no wrong.

<a href="http://www.live365.com/stations/atomic_otter" target="_blank">otter pop radio:</a> catchy and fun, not awful and gross
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/otterpopradio" target="_blank">otter pop radio on myspace</a>

[Frau_Blucher]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Otters Walk Among Us[/i]
<br>Of course, in my world, Labrador Records can do no wrong.
[/quote]
Of course, you must have then picked up the new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Labrador-Complete-History-Popular-Music/dp/B000NA237A/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0185337-9941436?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188526196&sr=1-1">Labrador 100</a> comp already. [8D]

[Retro_NRG]

What a great find[8D]

These guys are indeed a musical revelation. Amazing musicians.

I just hope they can achieve a most deserved reward of success and recognition without becoming some record excec's short term flash in the pan phenom.

They are soo much better than that.

<MARQUEE><h5>Moving @The Speed of Life</h5></MARQUEE>

[Frau_Blucher]

A couple of nice studio appearances I hadn't seen before. Really digging the up-front bass work on the first track:

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[marie3]

Thanks for the post Blir. I somehow missed this topic when you originally posted it. They sound great. Totally agree with the Echo & the Bunnymen comparison