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The Whitest Boy Alive
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Out of 53 votes - Similar Artists: Erlend Oye, James Figurine, The Postal Service
Out of 53 votes
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- Location: Germany
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Indie Pop
Editor's review
The new material from King of Convenience Erlend Oye's electro side project is neither purely indie pop nor quite electronica. But just as the Rapture's affinity for house beats was welcome, so is this high-rhythm heterodoxy. Fumbly Euro-indie structures get big kicks out of sharp beats.
Biography
Berlin-based Norwegian singer Erlend Oye (of Kings of Convenience fame) has been a large figure in the electronic music scene for years (even more so following his popular DJ-Kicks album), so it should be no surprise that his new project is a collaboration with a fellow DJ, German Marcin Oz. The two dance music vets have a reputation for getting people on the floor, yet with Dreams they've chosen to go an alternate route, leaving dance music behind to create stripped down rock songs without layering, editing or effects.
While the band made their start as an electronic music project back in 2003, by now the only remaining dance element is revealed in their energetic live show, where they mix the songs together with a steady kick drum, the way a DJ would, to keep the energy constant. Dreams is a succinct album - a simple and direct set of ten songs, each one as strong as the next. The sound is intense and beautiful, upbeat yet laced with Erlend's signature melancholy tinge. While Whitest Boy Alive's vocals may remind you of Erlend's previous solo and Kings of Convenience work, Dreams is wholly something of its own invention.
The Whitest Boy Alive is truly a band, not to be labeled or discussed as just Oye's new album. Interviews, photoshoots and performances will be done as a group.
