Thu. March 28, 2013
Today, the four member's of the Danish band Vår have announced the details of their highly anticipated debut full length album with Sacred Bones Records, No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers. In the words of co-founding band leader Loke Rahbek the record is "a European record, recorded in America or an American record, recorded by Europeans. Either way, it is the first full length by Vår, written and recorded over a week, on borrowed equipment in Heaven Street Studios in Brooklyn, summer 2012". Rahbek also describes the album's artwork, explaining "The cover is a mirror and thus changes with whoever is holding it. Looking at it, you are the cover. It's music to remind you to be as pretty as possible.". Check out the album art and track listing below.
Vår is the project of four best friends from Copenhagen. Each member of the band is involved in several other Danish bands and all four members are also accomplished visual artists. What began as the extremely lo-fi two-piece of Elias Rønnenfelt and Loke Rahbek recording on 4-track has evolved into an experimental noise/ industrial/ techno pop quartet. On this album Vår utilize everything from acoustic guitar, power electronics, bass, trumpet, multi-tracked vocals, and various percussive instruments, to broken glass & sheet metal samples. No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers is a remarkable debut, an emotional roller coaster of sorts which at times is profoundly uplifting, at times decidedly morose but remains unfail- ingly moving throughout.
Exploring themes of love, loss, vanity, hope, fear, sexuality and friendship and drawing more on literary influences than musical ones (Bataille and Shaffer, specifically), the band craft an album which cannot be confined by any singular sub-genre. Words like "industrial" and "electronic" fall short here; they barely begin to scratch the surface of this work. This is soundtrack music for a play that has only begun to be imagined and is light years away from being consummated.
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