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Sad Day For Puppets - Introducing
Swedish indie-rockers Sad Day For Puppets charmed us with their tunes, now watch them charm us with their answers..
Swedish indie-rockers Sad Day For Puppets release their second album, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’, via Sonic Cathedral Recordings on September 6. Recorded last winter in a freezing cold Stockholm, it comes just over a year after their acclaimed debut, ‘Unknown Colors’, but at a mere 37 minutes is much more focused and concise. As the crows that have replaced the finches on the band’s logo seem to indicate, it’s also a much darker and heavier album. This is perhaps a result of touring extensively with A Place To Bury Strangers (the two bands got on so famously that Strangers mainman Oliver Ackermann is named as the ‘patron saint’ of the album), or because this is the first time they have recorded with the now settled five-piece line-up of Anna Eklund (vocals), Marcus Sandgren (lead guitar), Martin Källholm (guitars), Micael Back (drums, harmony vocals) and Alex Svenson-Metés (bass, keyboards, harmony vocals). Regardless of how it happened, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is something of a minor-key masterpiece. It opens with the mournful ‘Sorrow, Sorrow’, which sees Anna joined by her sister Annika for some beautiful harmonies like some kind of Swedish Everly Sisters. This gives way to ‘Such A Waste’, which takes the overt J Mascis references of their debut and shifts them into overdrive. ‘Monster & The Beast’, given away as a free MP3 as a taster for the album, is slow and menacing and about as scary as the cover art, which looks like it’s straight out of a Grimm’s fairy tale. It’s not all heaviness and misery though – ‘Beads’ is a simple, acoustic, lovelorn ballad, ‘Touch’ is pure, Primitive(s) indie-pop with about three different choruses, ‘Fuzzy Feather’ really should have been recorded at Fort Apache Studios sometime in 1993 and closer ‘Tingle In My Hand’ is gorgeous, gauzy psychedelia. Sad Day For Puppets were formed in 2006 in the Stockholm satellite town of Blackeberg, the setting for the creepy vampire book/film ‘Let The Right One In’. Martin Källholm, the band’s resident songwriting genius, claims to be inspired by Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Kiss and Aerosmith and is strangely obsessed with Bette Midler. The band’s debut UK single, ‘Marble Gods’, was a BBC 6 Music track of the week. Answered by Martin, Guitar...
How are you? Where does this Q&A find you?
I’m fine, thank you. I’m at home with my kid.
How did the recording sessions for your latest release go? Did you achieve all you’d planned to?
They went pretty well and the album ended up kind of how we wanted it.
What goals did you set yourself before you started recording? Did you do anything differently this time, on purpose? If so, why?
Just to have fun and play together.
What do you feel are your own limitations when it comes to creating/writing music?
I’m not a guitarist who have spent a lot of my time practising, I mean I play all the time but I don’t really try to get better. I couldn’t play fast and complicated metal music, but that doesn’t really bother me.
What do you consider to be your best 3 songs, and tell us the inspiration behind them?
I’m very fond of Big Waves, which is a love song, Again, which is also a love song, and Monster &the Beast, which is based on one of my favourite poems.
What do you love and what do you hate about life on the road? Tell us your funniest tour experience yet?
I enjoy spending time in the van, reading listening to music and talking, but I really hate sleeping away from home. Just recently our van broke down after one month of touring, when we were about an hour from home. Two cars came to pick us up; one of them had a flat tyre after about ten minutes, and the police when on the way to get a spare tyre stopped the other one. I guess I will find that funny some day.
How would you describe your own/band's sound, or what do you hate being labelled as?
As pop music played by a rock band. I really don’t mind labels, people can it whatever they want.
Who is currently moving you musically at the moment?
Some old lullabies I play or my baby, that I haven’t heard in a long time.
What album changed your life and why?
Siamese Dream, I can’t really say why.
If you could erase one single/album from history (your own or someone else's) which would it be and why?
No, that would be a horrible thing to do.
A rumour you'd like to start about yourself, or one you'd like stopped?
I don’t think I like rumours that much, and I haven’t heard any ones about myself.
The revolution comes, who would you like to be first against the wall (and if you're feeling particularly bitchy, a second, third, fourth and so on...)?
I’m a peaceful person…
Best piece of advice you'd give to aspiring musicians, or the best piece of advice you were given when you started?
As long as you like what you’re playing, it’s good.
If you're in a car going at the speed of light, and someone turns the headlamps on, would they do anything?
What?
TOP 5 IPOD TUNES
1. James and the Cold Gun
2. Leave a Light On
3. Woman in Love
4. Manic Monday
5. Moonlight Shadow
New album ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is out now on Sonic Cathedral
thanks to Nat @ Sonic Cathedral
Jeremy Chick
www.subba-cultcha.com/features/article.php?contentID=21987
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Sad Day For Puppets - Introducing
Swedish indie-rockers Sad Day For Puppets charmed us with their tunes, now watch them charm us with their answers..
Swedish indie-rockers Sad Day For Puppets release their second album, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’, via Sonic Cathedral Recordings on September 6. Recorded last winter in a freezing cold Stockholm, it comes just over a year after their acclaimed debut, ‘Unknown Colors’, but at a mere 37 minutes is much more focused and concise. As the crows that have replaced the finches on the band’s logo seem to indicate, it’s also a much darker and heavier album. This is perhaps a result of touring extensively with A Place To Bury Strangers (the two bands got on so famously that Strangers mainman Oliver Ackermann is named as the ‘patron saint’ of the album), or because this is the first time they have recorded with the now settled five-piece line-up of Anna Eklund (vocals), Marcus Sandgren (lead guitar), Martin Källholm (guitars), Micael Back (drums, harmony vocals) and Alex Svenson-Metés (bass, keyboards, harmony vocals). Regardless of how it happened, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is something of a minor-key masterpiece. It opens with the mournful ‘Sorrow, Sorrow’, which sees Anna joined by her sister Annika for some beautiful harmonies like some kind of Swedish Everly Sisters. This gives way to ‘Such A Waste’, which takes the overt J Mascis references of their debut and shifts them into overdrive. ‘Monster & The Beast’, given away as a free MP3 as a taster for the album, is slow and menacing and about as scary as the cover art, which looks like it’s straight out of a Grimm’s fairy tale. It’s not all heaviness and misery though – ‘Beads’ is a simple, acoustic, lovelorn ballad, ‘Touch’ is pure, Primitive(s) indie-pop with about three different choruses, ‘Fuzzy Feather’ really should have been recorded at Fort Apache Studios sometime in 1993 and closer ‘Tingle In My Hand’ is gorgeous, gauzy psychedelia. Sad Day For Puppets were formed in 2006 in the Stockholm satellite town of Blackeberg, the setting for the creepy vampire book/film ‘Let The Right One In’. Martin Källholm, the band’s resident songwriting genius, claims to be inspired by Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Kiss and Aerosmith and is strangely obsessed with Bette Midler. The band’s debut UK single, ‘Marble Gods’, was a BBC 6 Music track of the week. Answered by Martin, Guitar...
How are you? Where does this Q&A find you?
I’m fine, thank you. I’m at home with my kid.
How did the recording sessions for your latest release go? Did you achieve all you’d planned to?
They went pretty well and the album ended up kind of how we wanted it.
What goals did you set yourself before you started recording? Did you do anything differently this time, on purpose? If so, why?
Just to have fun and play together.
What do you feel are your own limitations when it comes to creating/writing music?
I’m not a guitarist who have spent a lot of my time practising, I mean I play all the time but I don’t really try to get better. I couldn’t play fast and complicated metal music, but that doesn’t really bother me.
What do you consider to be your best 3 songs, and tell us the inspiration behind them?
I’m very fond of Big Waves, which is a love song, Again, which is also a love song, and Monster &the Beast, which is based on one of my favourite poems.
What do you love and what do you hate about life on the road? Tell us your funniest tour experience yet?
I enjoy spending time in the van, reading listening to music and talking, but I really hate sleeping away from home. Just recently our van broke down after one month of touring, when we were about an hour from home. Two cars came to pick us up; one of them had a flat tyre after about ten minutes, and the police when on the way to get a spare tyre stopped the other one. I guess I will find that funny some day.
How would you describe your own/band's sound, or what do you hate being labelled as?
As pop music played by a rock band. I really don’t mind labels, people can it whatever they want.
Who is currently moving you musically at the moment?
Some old lullabies I play or my baby, that I haven’t heard in a long time.
What album changed your life and why?
Siamese Dream, I can’t really say why.
If you could erase one single/album from history (your own or someone else's) which would it be and why?
No, that would be a horrible thing to do.
A rumour you'd like to start about yourself, or one you'd like stopped?
I don’t think I like rumours that much, and I haven’t heard any ones about myself.
The revolution comes, who would you like to be first against the wall (and if you're feeling particularly bitchy, a second, third, fourth and so on...)?
I’m a peaceful person…
Best piece of advice you'd give to aspiring musicians, or the best piece of advice you were given when you started?
As long as you like what you’re playing, it’s good.
If you're in a car going at the speed of light, and someone turns the headlamps on, would they do anything?
What?
TOP 5 IPOD TUNES
1. James and the Cold Gun
2. Leave a Light On
3. Woman in Love
4. Manic Monday
5. Moonlight Shadow
New album ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is out now on Sonic Cathedral
thanks to Nat @ Sonic Cathedral
Jeremy Chick