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Artist - Billie The Vision And The Dancers
Title - While You Were Asleep
Genre - Indie Year - 2012
Format - Album Time - 40:30
Label - Love Will Pay The Bills Store - play.google.com
01. I Seek A Stronger Word 3:23
02. Give It Back 2:50
03. When You Say Goodbye 2:54
04. Queen Of The Dancefloor 2:33
05. I Just Wanna Dance The All Night Through 3:22
06. Keep Smiling At The Kids 3:18
07. IRL 3:25
08. Shes A Keeper 3:51
09. Turn Back Home 2:56
10. Heimlichs Maneuver 4:08
11. Above 2:53
12. Leave This City 2:50
13. I Don't Fit In 2:07
Billie The Vision & The Dancers are a seven-member ensemble
who play tuneful, chipper, folksy pop music with
idiosyncratic, sometimes mawkishly sentimental lyrics (Sweden
has a seemingly endless supply of such groups, though most of
them have a little more restraint when it comes to choosing
band names). The multi-racial, multi-gender collective
revolves around a singer and songwriter named Lars Lindquist
(not Billie, though he is unmistakably a vision: a statuesque
transvestite with blue eyes and shocking, fiery red-gold hair)
who convened the group in 2004 to help record some songs he
had initially intended as a solo project.
They introduced the world to their particular brand of twee
pop - lush, rootsy, musically accomplished, and surprisingly
tasteful, but still undeniably, adorably cutesy - with "I Was
So Unpopular In School And Now They're Giving Me This
Beautiful Bicycle". Like all of their releases to date, it was
self-released on their own Love Will Pay The Bills label and
made available for download, free of charge, from their
website. 2005's "The World According To Pablo", recorded that
summer in a borrowed country house, introduced the presumably
fictitious Pablo Diablo character as a central lyrical focus
(Lilly, another recurring figure in Lindquist's convoluted,
conversational narratives, had made her first appearance on
Bicycle's opener, 'Summercat').
Both of these albums were nominated for the Swedish indie
music Manifest prize and helped the band to secure an
impressive national and international following without
major-label support or external PR, thanks in part to their
savvy Internet marketing strategy and an unorthodox approach
to live performance (including tours of high schools and
prisons, in addition to a series of opening slots for the
Pipettes). In April 2007, Billie The Vision released their
third full-length, "Where The Ocean Meet My Hand". "I Used To
Wander These Streets" was released in 2008, and "From Burning
Hell To Smile And Laughter" followed in 2010.