Peter Bjorn & John - Seaside Rock

TRACKLISTING: (1) Inland Empire (2) Say Something (3) Favour of the Season (4) Next stop Bjursele (5) School of Kraut (6) Eirk’s Fishing Trip (7) Needles and Pills (8) Norrlands Riviera (9) Barcelona (10) At the Seaside  - LIMITED PRESSING VINYL ONLY RELEASE 300 COPIES

OVERVIEW: "Peter Bjorn And John" are not a real rock band.
Peter doesn’t like to sign breasts, Bjorn bought his first leather jacket at the age of 27 and John can neither spit cool nor spin his drumsticks. Still they recently found themselves touring the world, playing in front of real rock audiences that just kept getting bigger.
Is that really possible to pull off without a proper "rock band history"?
Well OK, Peter once actually had a "shoegaze hairdo", Bjorn once got laid after a party and John performed five songs by W.A.S.P. at a school party in 4th grade but still...
How could they make rock music without taking any drugs stronger than light-beer?
Where did the Peter Bjorn And John rock music come from?

PB&J did not talk that much about this interesting subject. Not at all, as a matter of fact. But during a flight home from London something else came up. The band started to remember their years in elementary school and among the subjects was the frustration of listening to and sometimes having to play in school orchestras.
They stayed at home and made music on their tape decks. But as grownups, the memory of the sound of the Swedish music school orchestras from hell wasn’t really that bad. When Peter Bjorn And John thought about it, they realised it was kind of fantastic.Soon the idea of making an instrumental album with these types of sounds seemed like a great idea.
And since the childhood of each of the three members was quite similar (growing up bored in small villages located near water in the north of Sweden ) Peter Bjorn And John decided to have the themes of water and boredom as inspiration for the record.

The title of the album "Seaside Rock" came naturally.
So, in the very beginning of the Swedish Spring of 2007 they entered a proper recording studio for the first time in 3 years. Actually they entered the same studio that the group ABBA recorded most of their music in back in the day. And after entering the studio Peter Bjorn And John also recorded the music.
As homage to Peter Bjorn And John's respective hometowns they wanted to feature the voice and dialect from each of the three areas. So apart from the instrumental soundtrack to the lonely childhood of northern Scandinavia you can also hear three monologues about some sort of seaside. The stories are read by a real saxophone player from Norsjö, a grandfather from Vika and the hairdresser Siw from Piteå.
Peter Bjorn And John hope you will enjoy this record a lot!

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