Blog: Loudersoft

An observation: I think if Erlend Oye were a type of fabric, he'd be a smooth vinyl suede. After all, the Norwegian crooner has made his career out of experimenting with various combinations of the synthetic and the smooth. The latest of these efforts is Rules , the second release from The Whitest Boy Alive , due out on Bubbles in March. The Berlin-based group's 2007 debut, Dreams , was about as close as dance-rock can come to producing a concept album; the stripped-down guitar/bass/drums/vocals galvanized by [...]

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