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Thieves Like Us
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Out of 8 votes - Similar Artists: The Black Ghosts, Simian Mobile Disco, Vicarious Bliss
Out of 8 votes
- Location: Paris, France
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Electro
Editor's review
Self diagnosed as “half Daft Punk, half Factory Records” two Swedes meet up with an American for a musical odyssey to create music they can tolerate. Fans of early robotic New Wave (a la Depeche Mode) will hear an endearingly bleak familiarity in the vocals, moody synth lines, and hard cutting drum sounds reminiscent of recent Italo Disco. This isn’t your adrenaline fueled marathon of dance floor smashers, but something one might classify as "Intellectro." Yet another envoy of musical diplomacy for Kitsune, TLU are a beautifully strange bunch taking an '80s inspired approach to eccentric electronic internationalism.
Biography
Thieves Like Us is a musical vehicle ? an elegant starship, pointed straight to the heart of the listener. They align themselves musically with Europe, and consider Paris their home (although none of them are French).
Pontus Berghe (drums) and Bjorn Berglund (keyboards) are from Sweden. Andy Grier (vocals) is from the US. They met at a picnic in Berlin.
People often ask them to describe their sound, and although they encompass a variety of influences, they ultimately consider themselves to be a pop band. Yes, the production style is both disco and Hip Hop, but the sheer strength of the melodies and emotional depth of the songs propels them into the field of classics.
Their first album "Play Music" was written, recorded and mixed in New York, Berlin, Vienna, London, Rio De Janeiro and Stockholm. It is a combination of technology and imperfection. Imagine the drunken children of Abba stumbling into the studio of Kraftwerk ? this is Thieves Like Us. They claim the album is mostly about love gone wrong (?Drugs In My Body?, ?Lady?) and identity problems (?Program of The First Part?, ?Headlong Into Night?) and just when you think maybe the band is taking themselves too seriously a song like ?Miss You? comes around to lighten things up.
Thieves Like Us ? interpret them as you like, but I guarantee you will know their songs by heart already.
