Artist.......: Golden Kanine
Album........: Oh Woe !
Label........: Glitterhouse
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Apr-13-2011
str.date.....: Apr-11-2011
quality......: VBR/44.1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. Arkham 03:51
02. Climb 03:06
03. Burial 04:09
04. Fire 03:50
05. Law of probable outcome 04:14
06. Get by 02:45
07. All must die 01:43
08. A change 04:23
09. The devil 01:38
10. Oh lord 04:25
11. Back from the woods 04:31
Runtime 38:35 min
Size 46,8 MB
Release Notes:
Around ten years ago the two singer/songwriters
Linus Lindvall and Andreas Olrog met at a film
school in Helsingborg. They found out they shared
both taste in music and in films and decided to
form a band, since they both sat on a bunch of
songs. The result was called Ashtray Hearts an alt
country band taking its inspiration from bands like
Jayhawks and Wilco. The band split up a few years
after and Lindvall moved to Malmoe where he met
Micke Sahlin, a drummer from, the recently put to
sleep, öShakedownsö.
Both Sahlin and Lindvall wanted to start something
new with a more direct approach and with more
punch. They tried out different musicians, but
found themselves alone. They started to persuade
Olrog to leave Helsingborg and to come and play
music with them. They succeeded. The guys formed
ôThe Luscious Fourö with Daniel Melkersson on bass,
Lindvall and Olrog on guitar/vocals and Sahlin on
the drums. After a couple of years Melkersson left
the band and was replaced by Dante Ekfeldt.
They changed their name to ôGolden Kanineö.
The four made a record in which a guy called Marcus
Lundquist played trombone on, and soon after they
had fallen in love with the idea of a more dynamic
sound with more versatile instrumentation than just
the classic rock setting of guitars, bass and
drums. The idea incorporated the thought of a wall
of snares, mandolins, trombones, banjos, guitars,
fuzz bass guitar, pianos, the eventual pump organ
and trying to combine the sonic noise of indie
rock, the delicate and intimate feel of lo-fi and
the more danceable parts of folk music.
The idea turned out to be generating quite a stir,
both in their home region of southern Sweden but
also in Germany and Denmark. The five guys started
to record their debut album called ôScissors &
Happinessö, which later was released by a German
record label called Stargazer. The album got great
reviews in German fanzines and magazines and the
band kept looking for more ways to get their music
out. Golden Kanine took to touring and even more
touring and eventually they ended up in the garden
of the Glitterhouse mansion playing a set to the
crowd of the OBS festival and Golden Kanine soon
signed on with Glitterhouse records.
Now here we stand with even more touring done and a
whole new record ready to hit your eardrums.
ôOh woe!ö
One ill conceived remark about having a new album
out next spring during a concert launched a year of
febrile work. Few of the songs were in place,
rehearsed and tested in public, actually only
three, I think. The rest were dug up from under
piles and piles of old rubbish and polished into
shine while yet a couple were written as we went
along. Some of the songs not finished but seconds
until stepping in front of the microphone in the
studio.
The initial idea, or ideas, was to be faster, more
intimate and darker and to have a rougher approach
to recording than what we have had before. These
ideas coincided well with our friends Mattias
Larsson and Henrik Hoffer which took on the immense
work of recording the album.
Mattias was a friend of ours since some time back
and we knew his strengths as an engineer and
producer but with Henrik it was more of a gamble.
We knew of him and his band previously but had
never recorded or played with him before. The guys
committed themselves with great devotion and we
spent many great hours in the two studios in which
the album was recorded.
The title of the album was actually intended for a
side project but sounded great as an album title as
well so we went for that instead. The title itself
derives from the idea of sudden misfortune and how
to deal with such.