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Assegai is an instrumental rock outfit consisting of saxophone, bass, guitar, and drums. Each member of the group brings a variety of musical influences to the eclectic entanglement that is Assegai's distinct sound. No matter where you place yourself musically you will always find something to grab your attention in their odd type of instrumental rock. The album Water Worlds and Dry Spells is the product of a mutual pile of ideas; written sketches, memorized conversations, and cell phone recordings which were all collected in a joint cloud folder, and eventually laid the foundation of the compositions. Continuing from their 2020 album Kraal and their 2022 album 53, this release is a further development of the unity that the band have found themselves in, where jazz phrases fuse with krautrock repetition, traditional folk themes, and polyrhythmic structures.
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"Dark, cute and cool" has always been a mantra for Pleaser, starting as an inside joke on how the members come across in everyday life but perhaps also being a fitting description for their iconoclastic tendencies and aesthetics. On their debut album, Pleaser manifests themselves as a punk band in both a strict and a loose sense of the term. Their musicality, ethics and community are undeniably punk, but their expression is vast and more personal than sub-genre-bound. The band projects the heart-on-the-sleeve of early emo, the catchy viciousness associated with original punk rock, a dark convolutedness of certain kinds of metal -- and yet an earthiness and willingness to explore that harkens back to earlier forms of rock music and all the way up to a current experimental music scene. Songs are both catchy and impenetrable at the same time, appreciating a pop hook just as much as a labyrinthine song structure. Pleaser's self-titled debut album is the result of a combination of hard rehearsal space labor, playfulness, and increasingly sharp band-instincts. Lyrically, the songs contemplate themes of life/death, subconscious patterns, internal search for hope and love, demons, fear and desperation but also growth, playfulness and the shaping of new pathways. Songs dating back to the formation of the band three to four years ago have built in vigor from the band's growing stage experience and willingness to treat songs like football tackles. Harmony, dissonance, riffs and rhythmic shifts are jumbled together and allowed to remain tumultuous and imperfect, just as a debut album should be. The album is recorded, mixed and mastered at No Master's Voice Studio in Copenhagen.
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Centered around guitar, piano, and Jeppe Grønbæk Andersen's bittersweet taletelling, Binging, Bragging, Bitching was written over the course of five years and tells a chronological tale of personal ruin and disintegration. Whilst serving mainly as a testimony of self-pity and downfall, the album concludes with a moment of clarity and reflection. Recorded in 2020, Binging, Bragging, Bitching is Tears' sophomore album and the first to be recorded with the current line-up. Tears started in 2015 as the solo moniker of Aarhus, Denmark local Jeppe Grønbæk Andersen. The first manifestation of the project was the cassette release 33 through Copenhagen label Posh Isolation the same year. The release showcased Andersen's newfound love of Casio keyboards and drum machines, which contrasted his prior affiliation with local punk and hardcore bands such as Urban Achievers, Happy Hookers for Jesus, Pleasure and Tilebreaker. Tears has since become a full rock band with a sound that emphasizes melody and carries elements of chamber pop.
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