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Recommended by us on 10th February 2012
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Liechtenstein are a girl group from Gothenburg who painstakingly recreate the female side of the C86 jangle pop scene with extremely jaunty tunes featuring lashings of jangly guitar and hummable zippy tunes. The main reference points would be Shop Assistants, Tallulah Gosh, Marine Girls, Waitresses but also with hints of the tougher edge of earlier travellers such as The Raincoats and The Slits. It has a post-punk energy and angularity that prevents it becoming anywhere near as cloying as the likes of Heavenly and despite the obvious influences are closer to the Vivian Girls and affiliates. Reading through the previous reviews, all the same names keep coming up which is understandable as they have a signature sound and are very easy to categorize but we shouldn't dismiss them as mere copyists, there's a hat full of joyous tunes contained in here and when they hit a memorable melody as on 'Passion for Water' the album is all the better for it. They also present light and shade and tunes such as 'Fast Forward' have a more world weary quality, they also have a good knack with a harmony. Honest to goodness old fashioned indie pop like your mum used to make!
Liechtenstein is back! Since 2007, this Gothenburg band has mixed
vocal harmonies with post punk and warmed indiepop hearts in all
corners of the world with six singles and the debut album ”Survival
Strategies In A Modern World”. Five years after the first release
”Stalking Skills”, it’s finally time for Liechtenstein’s second album
”Fast Forward” – eleven pop songs that raise the band to a whole
new level. This album is a pop gem filled with catchy post punk,
jangly guitars, trumpets, piano and vocal harmonies, all arranged
and produced with a sensitive touch. The production is crispier
than before, emphasizing the vocals and putting focus on the
lyrics. Because pop songs that make you want to dance has always only been one part of Liechtenstein, while the political side to
the band, the commenting upon and depicting the time we live in,
has been what really distinguishes Liechtenstein.
With songs like ”Heads On Golden Plates”, ”No Idealists Left”
and ”Fast Forward”, Liechtenstein has created a strong (and dark)
description of today’s Sweden. At the same time, it’s a record that
picks up the musical heritage from the British 80’s pop scene, a
time when bands like The Housemartins and McCarthy made the
kids dance with their fists in the air. And who knows, it might happen again
1. Ambitions
2. Heads On Golden Plates
3. Passion For Water
4. No Idealists Left
5. Fast Forward
6. Meantime
7. The Farival Twins
8. Memories
9. An Old Beginning
10. Strange Ideas
11. A Monumental Plan
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