Artist: Flunk
Title: This What You Get
Label: Beatservice
Genre: Electronic
Bitrate: 175kbit av.
Time: 00:39:10
Size: 51.90 mb
Rip Date: 2009-06-10
Str Date: 2009-06-08
01. Dying To See You 2:04
02. Common Sense 3:20
03. Cigarette Burns 3:15
04. Ride 2:31
05. Love Hearts 3:58
06. Speedskating 5:22
07. Stain 3:05
08. Cardboard Rebel 2:30
09. Shoreline 4:35
10. Down 3:01
11. Karma Police 5:29
Release Notes:
Flunk is a Norwegian electronic band consisting of producer Ulf
Nygaard, guitarist Jo Bakke, drummer Erik Ruud, and vocalist Anja Oyen
Vister.
The band began as a project between Ulf, and Jo in Oslo, Norway in
winter 2000 and 2001. Beginning as an instrumental and sampled vocal
project, they were signed for a track on a compilation by Beatservice
Records in winter 2001. On hearing the finished track, label manager
Vidar Hanssen signed the unnamed band for a full album.
During early summer 2001, Ulf and Jo recorded most of the album and
Anja improvised the vocals. After their vocals, Jo layered the guitars,
but it would be a year before the album would be completed and
released.
In spring 2002, the band was known as Flunk and they released their
first single, a cover of New Order's Blue Monday in April. The track
was well received in the UK and was included on numerous compilations
in North America and Europe. Later in April, their debut album For
Sleepyheads Only was released which garnered great reviews in Norway.
With the success of their album, BBC invited them to do a recording
session for the Radio 1 show The Blue Room in London. Shortly after
Notting Hill Art's Club would become the location of their live debut.
In the United States, they signed with Guidance Recordings.
By summer 2002, the band was getting rave reviews from British
electronica magazines and in July they played Norway's finest rock
festival. In October For Sleepyheads Only was released in the US
through Guidance Recordings. In November they played the London Jazz
Festival.
Throughout 2003 their debut, For Sleepyheads Only was still being
echoed across the globe in staggered releases with special editions
released to Russia and Greece. Beatservice Records then went on to
release Treat Me Like You Do - For Sleepyheads Only Remixed in June.
While their debut continued to make its way around, the band wasted no
time and began work on their second album for the majority of the year,
which was recorded in Paris in October.
Their second album, Morning Star was finished in March 2004 and saw a
Norwegian release in May while it was released in the rest of the world
in June. In 2005, Play America was released on Beatservice Records
which included bonus tracks from the US version of Morning Star along
with remixes.
In 2007 Flunk released their next album, Personal Stereo, while June
2009 see's the release of This Is What You Get, which includes a cover
version of Radiohead's Karma Police.