Firstly sorry for the delay in posting, between spending a week on a boat in Norfolk and traveling to Manchester for a long weekend there has been oceans of rainwater in the way. As I write this I am finally on the train to Manchester after setting off from Norfolk 30 hours ago! Secondly todays collection is made up of my laptop collection (wooo on the road) so its a bit sparse. The White Stripes have made a rather awesome back in recent weeks with their new album and single titled Icky Thump. The album itself [...]
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I'm gushing (in my own way) about the new Taken By Trees album. Not quite in the same manner as a Feist or Regina Spektor album, but this is still really cool nevertheless. If you have no idea, let me catch you up to speed. Victoria Bergsman left her band The Concretes last year. Since that time she recorded a (now hit) song with fellow Swedes Peter Bjorn and John (heard of "Young Folks" much?), and formed her own project known as Taken By Trees. The whole thing is being dubbed a "solo project," but fact of the matter is [...]
Okay okay okay. We loved every single thing about The Concretes' most recent record, In Colour (truth be told we also really really really liked Hey Trouble ). So it's rather not shocking that the culture of me is oooh'ing and aaaah'ing all over the place with last week's release of Taken By Trees' Open Field . Long story way way shorter, Victoria Bergsman left The Concretes, did an earth-shattering scene thievery of Peter, Bjorn & John's indie smash "Young Folks" and now is dropping a bomb on all of the [...]
lost and found www.takenbytrees.com So you may be wondering, who is behind this Taken By Trees band and why do I keep hearing about them? I'll answer those questions and it'll all become clear. First, Taken By Trees is Victoria Bergsman, ex-Concretes singer and songwriter. And if that means nothing to you, she's the girl vocals on PB&J's "Young Folks". And if you don't know what "Young Folks" is, it's probably because you've been in a coma for the past year. Welcome back! But in all seriousness, this [...]
^ (If I were Gene or Dean, that would be my review. Thankfully I'm not.) I can see it now. This is going to be called "the album that girl on Young Folks made" but non, non, non: don't make that mistake. While it has the same sensuous English-as-second-language appeal that it seems only Swedes like her, PB&J, and some scant few Brits can bring to the fold: this is not a Young Folks side-kick. By the same token, if you were a loving member of The Concretes' following you're gonna have to lose some of those expectations, too. [...]
Oh, I just HAVE to tell you about the new album from Taken by Trees , the solo project of Victoria Bergsman, former lead singer in The Concretes. It's called Open Field and it's one of this years most beautiful albums. I know I say this almost every time I'm really, really excited about a new album I have bought, and I will say it again and again and again, I know, but trust me: This is a delicate, beautiful, warm and honest album. Listen to the song I have included here, and go and have a [...]
photo courtesy of MySpace Feeling like the onslaught of new music this year is never ending? Last year was a relative desert of desert island discs - we've probably had more great new releases so far this year than all of 2006 put together. While it's not looking like we can add Magnetic Fields (2008) to that list, and it seems doubtful that Radiohead will make it through the gate on time, there's still a lot more to come. And this week's offerings add more indecision to your ongoing "best of the year" list. [...]
Die Stimme von Victoria Bergsman dürfte selbst jenen, die noch nie etwas von der schwedischen Band The Conretes gehört haben, noch im Ohr klingen, war sie es doch, die dem letztjährigen Sommerhit von Peter, Bjorn & John «Young folks» die weiblichen Vocals spendierte. Nun ist sie auf Solopfaden unterwegs und nennt sich Taken by Trees . Ihr von Bjorn Ytting produziertes Debütalbum «Open field» kam gestern auf den europäischen Markt und dürfte alle Freunde von sanften Klängen wie Camera Obscura oder Club 8 wohlige Schauer über den Rücken jagen. Es geht ruhig [...]
(Tracklist and commentary coming on Sunday afternoon, as well as Swede Sunday)
Taken By Trees - "Too Young". Peter Bjorn & John's "Young Folks" is still a song that makes me dance every time I hear it; and because of the joy "Young Folks" engenders, I can't now hear Victoria Bergsman's voice without some part of me unfolding. "Too Young" is far away from PB&J, and not even in line with the sleepy pop of Bergsman's former band, The Concretes. She sings sadly, haltingly, with just the barest of drum snaps. Organ and hum suggests just the earliest, silvering dawn light. And it's a song about growing up, a song where the [...]
Victoria Bergsman jätti heinäkuussa The Concretes -yhtyeen kokeillakseen siipiään soolouralla. Ennen soolouransa alkua Bergsman ehti käydä vierailemassa Peter, Björn And Johnin Young Folks -hitillä. Nyt on ensimmäisten omien kappaleiden vuoro. Taken By Trees nimellä kulkeva sooloprojekti on saanut nauhoitettua ensimmäisen neljän kappaleen demon. Kappaleita voi käydä kuuntelemassa Taken By Treesin sivuilla . Tyylillisesti kappaleissa liikutaan likellä The Concretesin tuotantoa. (via Swedesplease ) Tagit: Victoria Bergsman , Taken [...]
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