Surface Sounds KALEO

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Album-Release:
2021

HRA-Release:
23.04.2021

Label: Elektra (NEK)

Genre: Alternative

Subgenre: Indie Rock

Artist: KALEO

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  • 1 Brother Run Fast 03:43
  • 2 Break My Baby 04:25
  • 3 Alter Ego 04:08
  • 4 Free the Slave (96 kHz) 04:08
  • 5 Skinny 03:42
  • 6 Hey Gringo 04:44
  • 7 My Fair Lady 03:43
  • 8 I Want More 03:32
  • 9 Backbone 03:52
  • 10 I Walk on Water 05:41
  • 11 Into My Mother's Arms 03:16
  • Total Runtime 44:54

Info for Surface Sounds

KALEO haben die Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums bekannt gegeben. Es trägt den Titel "Surface Sounds" und folgt auf ihr 2016 veröffentlichtes Debütalbum "A/B", das der isländischen Rockband mit Songs wie "Way Down We Go", "No Good“ und "All The Pretty Girls" den internationalen Durchbruch brachte. Begleitet wird die Ankündigung vom neuen Track "Alter Ego", den ihr unten in Begleitung eines Lyric Videos hört. Im Januar waren bereits die Vorboten "I Want More" und "Break My Baby" erschienen.

Frontmann und Songwriter JJ Julius Son begab sich über den Verlauf der letzten zwei Jahre immer wieder ins Studio und verquickte eine Kombination aus Weltenbummelei und akribischer Bastelei. Das Ergebnis ist ein Spektrum von Sounds, die rund um die Welt aufgenommen wurden – in Nordamerika, Südamerika und quer durch Europa. Erfrischend frei von Kalkül, überlässt es Julius Son jedem Song, ihm seinen Pfad zu diktieren, während er sich seinen Vorlieben zu Blues, Folk und Rock hingibt.

"Zunächst einmal möchte ich die Unsicherheiten und Ängste ansprechen, mit denen wir uns derzeit alle konfrontiert sehen. Wir erwogen, diese Ankündigung zu verschieben, was sich jedoch nicht richtig anfühlte, da wir alle uns gerade jetzt nach einem Stückchen Normalität sehnen", kommentiert Julius Son aus seinem Zuhause in Island. "Zeiten wie diese erinnern uns daran, was am meisten zählt. Instinktiv lenken wir unseren Fokus vom Oberflächlichen dahin, kollektiv unsere Nächsten zu unterstützen. Dieses Gefühl schwingt auch in Surface Sounds mit. Meine Hoffnung ist, mit diesem Album daran zu gemahnen, dass die Dinge auf der Oberfläche nicht annähernd so wichtig sind wie das, was darunterliegt. Und es unsere Aufgabe ist, uns in schweren Zeiten gegenseitig hochzuziehen."

"In vielerlei Hinsicht war dieses Album ein wahres Puzzle für mich“, so Julius Son über die Sammlung von Tracks, die on the road aufgenommen wurden. "Ich bin wirklich überall in Studios gesprungen, in Griechenland, Südamerika und quer durch Europa, und habe so nach und nach das erschaffen, was jetzt 'Surface Sounds' ist. Jedes Mal, wenn ich heim nach Island fuhr, jedes Mal, wenn ich in L.A. war, erfreue ich mich einfach nur daran, was wir im jeweiligen Moment und in jeder einzelnen Umgebung erschaffen können."

KALEO




Kaleo
Firmly a phenomenon in their home country of Iceland, the four-piece band Kaleo is set to descend upon foreign shores in 2015, bringing their gorgeous blend of folk, blues, country, and rock to a wider mainstream audience in America. Their isolated heritage inspires a unique take on familiar sonic elements, resulting in diversity and freedom on each and every breathtaking track.

Best friends since attending elementary school in the small town of Mosfellsbaer outside of Reykjavik, bandleader JJ Julius Son, drummer David Antonsson Crivello, and bassist Danny Jones began playing together at the age of 17. Honing their skills, they played countless shows around the nation’s capital for a few years before adding guitarist Rubin Pollock to the mix in 2012. They named the band Kaleo, which means “the sound” in Hawaiian, and started their career in earnest with a handful of well-received shows at the 2012 Iceland Airwaves music festival.

They recorded their first pair of original songs in early 2013, the fiery “Rock N Roller” and laid-back, bluesy “Pour Sugar On Me,” which earned Kaleo some radio airplay and press in Iceland. Then, that spring, their cover of the traditional Icelandic ballad “Vor í vaglaskógi” during a live radio show was videotaped and posted to YouTube, where it quickly went viral. The band recorded a studio version of the song in June, which went straight to Number One in virtually every radio station in the country. “It’s a different kind of cover, more dramatic and the tempo is taken down,” says JJ. The buzz for Kaleo had begun.

The band signed to Iceland’s largest record label, Sena, in the fall of 2013 and recorded their full-length debut, Kaleo, in just six short weeks. Five singles would reach Number One and the album would go Gold, receiving high praise and sending the band to shows and festivals in Europe over the next year, including an appearance on the biggest stage in their home country, Culture Night, where they played to 100,000 people and reached 90 percent of Iceland’s population in broadcast. Then, in the spring of 2014, Kaleo recorded the lush, introspective song “All the Pretty Girls” and in one night their destiny to outgrow their small, island nation was cemented. “It’s a very delicate song. It seemed to speak to a lot of people,” says JJ. “From there everything started to happen. We got contacted from other places: managers, labels, publishers—they all went crazy over one night.” Drawn to Kaleo’s multi-layered dynamics, their ability to play different genres with equal skill, the vocals and mood reminiscent of everything from Bon Iver and Iron & Wine to Coldplay and David Gray, and wise-beyond-their-years songwriting, the world came calling.

Now, signed to Atlantic Records in the US, Kaleo has moved to Austin, Texas, and will begin recording new material with producer Mike Crossey (Arctic Monkeys, Jake Bugg) in London for an EP due this year. Get ready for the sound.

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