Post by blade on Feb 17, 2011 20:20:50 GMT
Source: www.artrocker.tv/live/article/sad-day-for-puppets-the-jam-brighton
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Sad Day For Puppets @ The Jam, Brighton
Tabby Kinder checks out Sweden's latest pop-exports Sad Day For Puppets, but how do they measure-up?
Pleasantly melancholy, Sad Day For Puppets are the best thing to come out of Sweden since… Abba? Basshunter?
Maybe not. But they're definitely from Sweden. And they're amazing.
An ambient blend of indie rock and shoegaze, this five piece are beautifully ethereal. The band began in the same Stockholm town that was the setting for creepy cult vampire book/film Let The Right One In and, just like the film, Puppets are filled with an eerie sense of darkness and beauty. You'd never think from the cherubic blonde face of the (frankly stunning) lead singer Anna Eklund that this is a band brimming with fuzzy, grungey emotion. Their combination of ghostly harmonies and melodic rock rhythms make this band truly captivating. The band's second album Pale Silver & Shiny Gold was released in September 2010 to an adoring critical reception. Strange, considering the Brighton show on Saturday at The Jam was sadly almost empty. I'd like to say Puppets are hugely underrated, but I actually think this gives the band some of their lovely depressing charm.
Opening track on the album, ‘Sorrow Sorrow’, is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Puppets left it until the third song of the night to get it out there, but it definitely set the tone for lovelorn ballads. It's not all misery and gloom, though, songs like ‘Hush’ and set closer ‘Such A Waste’ are full of uplifting harmonies and catchy guitar riffs reminiscent of Cheap Trick and The Cranberries. Sad Day For Puppets elegantly combine dreamy melodies, fuzzy distortion and high-level feedback. At times they sound like an epic echo of Sigur Ros, at others you'd be forgiven for hearing these three-minute gems as pure rock ‘n roll. Either way, thank god it’s these guys that have inherited the Swedish baton of excellence from The Knife, and are carrying it shining, albeit slightly depressed, into 2011.
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Sad Day For Puppets @ The Jam, Brighton
Tabby Kinder checks out Sweden's latest pop-exports Sad Day For Puppets, but how do they measure-up?
Pleasantly melancholy, Sad Day For Puppets are the best thing to come out of Sweden since… Abba? Basshunter?
Maybe not. But they're definitely from Sweden. And they're amazing.
An ambient blend of indie rock and shoegaze, this five piece are beautifully ethereal. The band began in the same Stockholm town that was the setting for creepy cult vampire book/film Let The Right One In and, just like the film, Puppets are filled with an eerie sense of darkness and beauty. You'd never think from the cherubic blonde face of the (frankly stunning) lead singer Anna Eklund that this is a band brimming with fuzzy, grungey emotion. Their combination of ghostly harmonies and melodic rock rhythms make this band truly captivating. The band's second album Pale Silver & Shiny Gold was released in September 2010 to an adoring critical reception. Strange, considering the Brighton show on Saturday at The Jam was sadly almost empty. I'd like to say Puppets are hugely underrated, but I actually think this gives the band some of their lovely depressing charm.
Opening track on the album, ‘Sorrow Sorrow’, is undoubtedly a masterpiece. Puppets left it until the third song of the night to get it out there, but it definitely set the tone for lovelorn ballads. It's not all misery and gloom, though, songs like ‘Hush’ and set closer ‘Such A Waste’ are full of uplifting harmonies and catchy guitar riffs reminiscent of Cheap Trick and The Cranberries. Sad Day For Puppets elegantly combine dreamy melodies, fuzzy distortion and high-level feedback. At times they sound like an epic echo of Sigur Ros, at others you'd be forgiven for hearing these three-minute gems as pure rock ‘n roll. Either way, thank god it’s these guys that have inherited the Swedish baton of excellence from The Knife, and are carrying it shining, albeit slightly depressed, into 2011.