ROBOT released their third album on vinyl on 15th November, although it is a year old now. They’ve been around since the late 1990s and as they say, “The band is not afraid to let the audience wait in suspense for new material.”
The Copenhagen group describes their music as “old school organic beat/folk music with a noisy edge to it.”
Just the sort of thing I used to listen to when I was a teenager in the 90s (ha!). Where did it go?
If the title track is anything to go by, if you’ll pardon the pun, I reckon this could be a trip down Memory Lane for many folk brought up on the soft rock of that era and I note that they are compared to the likes of The Cure, The Beatles and Leonard Cohen amongst others and beat music (or Merseybeat as it used to be called) is a staple of their work.
They aren’t the only Danish band to hang on to British traditions; we’ve featured several Brit Pop merchants and quite frequently Mansfield, another beat-flavoured band.
So I’ve come to expect a high standard in this category and ROBOT don’t disappoint.
Musically it’s so laid back it’s horizontal. You can easily imagine listening to it swinging from a hammock between two coconut trees somewhere in the Caribbean. Or on Copacabana beach for that matter.
These Danish bands have no difficulty picking out a tune straight from the word go and sustaining it and there’s a sweet little piece of syncopation with the guitar, too.
Lyrically I haven’t got my head around it yet. There’s a hint that there is something profound going on with lines like “walk with me” and references to Special Agent Cooper but I’m content just to let it wash over me and Kåre Joensen’s relaxed yet confident vocal delivery is highly conducive to that.
If easy listening to thoughtful and well produced folk/rock is your thing then you could do worse than check out this album.
As Special Agent Cooper famously said, “I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange”
Robot are: Kasper Rasmussen: Drums, Mads Tunebjerg: Bass, Oliver Hoiness: Guitar, Rasmus Juel: Trumpet, Kåre Joensen: Guitar and vocals
Additional musicians: Jens Langhorn: Drums, Percussion and Synthesizers, Jesper Elnegaard: Drums, Kristoffer Sonne: Drums.
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