Marching Band is a two piece from Linköping, Sweden that I know keenan will shortly find himself listening to often (which means you should probably follow suit). According to their website, Marching band is a very small scale production consisting of a few mics, a laptop and an array of borrowed instruments that (I must say) they make excellent use of. The music isn't tired or generically poppy, yet still extremely poppy. Moderate use of electronic instruments (drums and so on) appears to be a mainstay from track to track along with the consistent familiarity of very rhythmic acoustic guitars. And, while Marching Band appears to make light of their gig with pictures of them basking in royalty alongside a family of well dressed foxes, they're actually excellent songwriters and vocalists.
Simple (but really great) vocal folk melodies line all of their songs so that if the quirky instruments were stripped along with the Caribbean drum beats (Gorgeous Behaviour) the album would sound like Sufjan Stevens: Greetings from Sweden.
They're first full-length, Spark Large, doesn't appear to be available in the states yet (unless you find it at some groovy underground record store I've never heard of) but you can get it here. I'm especially happy I was able to stumble their path before they inevitably hit it big: take a listen or two, and you'll know what I mean.
THE SKINNY: Marching Band, Sweden's most recent will-be pop sensation since ABBA, is an intensely entertaining up-beat twosome that have successfully created something for anyone willing to internationalize their music library.
FAVORITE TRACK: For Your Love
APPROPRIATE FOR: taking a drive north on the NJ turnpike, exiting at 13A, then avoiding the airport, parking across from the over-sized Toy's 'R Us, and finally entering IKEA - it's the quintessential soundtrack, I'm telling you.
FOR FANS OF: Sufjan Stevens, The Shins
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