{"id":18465,"date":"2010-03-13T15:54:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=18465"},"modified":"2010-03-13T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T14:54:16","slug":"skivnytt-the-strange-boys-cats-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/?p=18465","title":{"rendered":"Skivnytt: The Strange Boys och Cats on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strange-boys.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strange-boys1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18482\" title=\"strange boys\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/strange-boys1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tv\u00e5 sk\u00f6nt v\u00e5riga skivor som f\u00e5r \u00e4ven den mest vinterdeppiga kulturbloggare att leta fram solglas\u00f6gonen. Och se fram emot skivsl\u00e4pp av Britta Persson och The Radio Dept. senare i v\u00e5r.<\/p>\n<p>The Strange Boys &#8211; Be brave<\/p>\n<p>The Strange Boys har helt klart gjort mars m\u00e5nads sk\u00f6naste skiva. Det \u00e4r en s\u00f6derntr\u00e4skig blandning av 60\/70talsrock, garagerock, blues, country och ett avv\u00e4pnande sl\u00e4pigt tilltal. Med slackerattityden hos The Strokes g\u00f6r de ett sk\u00f6nt mishmash av all amerikanskt kulturarv p\u00e5 ett opretenti\u00f6st som k\u00e4nns ovanligt idag. P\u00e5minner en hel del om Dr Dog, Velvet Underground, Moby Grape, Grateful dead och en hel del annat. Som ni m\u00e4rker \u00e4r det ingenting som k\u00e4nns helt orginellt med detta, men en riktigt bra skiva \u00e4r det. V\u00e4rmande och spirande musik som kommer r\u00e4cka hela v\u00e5ren och sommaren. Minst.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e4s mer p\u00e5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/music\/reviews\/r3q4\">BBC <\/a>och <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/blogs\/smokingsection\/2008\/12\/our-new-favorite-band-the-stra.php\">Pitchfork<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cats000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18472\" title=\"cats000\" src=\"http:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/cats000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Cats On Fire &#8211; Our Temprence Movement<\/p>\n<p>Finlandssvenska Cats on fire har sen fina debuten &#8221;The Province Complains&#8221; blivit \u00e4nnu s\u00e4krare p\u00e5 sin grej; en virtuost framf\u00f6rd indiepop i Kings of Convinience och sj\u00e4lvklar framf\u00f6rallt The Smiths fotsp\u00e5r. Traditionsenligt \u00e4r texterna som sm\u00e5 noveller och musiken \u00f6msom eskapistiskt f\u00f6rf\u00f6rande, \u00f6msom hj\u00e4rtekrossande dyster. Det musik som f\u00f6rh\u00e5ller sig benh\u00e5rt till sin tradition och \u00e4r s\u00e5 duktig framf\u00f6rd, med oklanderlig s\u00e5ng och gitarrspel att man ibland n\u00e4stan inte t\u00e4nker p\u00e5 att den \u00e4r d\u00e4r. Det blir ibland lite v\u00e4l perfekt, utan skavanker eller utbrott. Ibland vill man bara att gitarrerna ska slira till lite, att s\u00e5ngen ska sk\u00e4ra sig, att n\u00e5got ska hugga tag.<\/p>\n<p>B\u00e4st blir det n\u00e4r de bluesrockar till det i Tears in our cup. Jag efterlyser fler s\u00e5na infall. Men det \u00e4r fortfarande en utm\u00e4rkt skiva som v\u00e4xer f\u00f6r varje lyssning, melodierna och orden tr\u00e4nger sig p\u00e5 mer och mer f\u00f6r varje g\u00e5ng. Och jag rekommenderar alla som kan att se dem live, det \u00e4r en av de b\u00e4sta konserter med den h\u00e4r typen av musik jag varit p\u00e5.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e4s mer p\u00e5 <a href=\"http:\/\/dagensskiva.com\/2009\/03\/15\/cats-on-fire\/\">Dagens Skiva<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonicmagazine.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;Itemid=85&amp;id=3089\">Sonic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sydsvenskan.se\/kultur-och-nojen\/musik\/skivrecensioner\/article417406\/Cats-on-Fire.html\">Sydsvenskan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hEQd-1XdIs&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1hEQd-1XdIs&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4gMQXlnQkmA&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4gMQXlnQkmA&amp;hl=sv_SE&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tv\u00e5 sk\u00f6nt v\u00e5riga skivor som f\u00e5r \u00e4ven den mest vinterdeppiga kulturbloggare att leta fram solglas\u00f6gonen. 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Det \u00e4r en s\u00f6derntr\u00e4skig blandning av 60\/70talsrock, garagerock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kulturbloggen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}