Sing Along With Acid House Kings - Indie Pop Music Album for Relaxation & Road Trips

Product Description Combining the aesthetics of Kraftwerk with Motown girl groups from the 60’s and musical influences from Burt Bucharach to The Smiths, Acid House Kings have created a classic album of timeless pop perfection. True to their Swedish origin, the Kings cannot hide a certain debt to the stylish arrangements and crystal clear melodies of ABBA. Review Acid House Kings continue their legacy of making timeless pop music. --Matt DuFour, THETRIPWIRE.com, August 2005...the hooks are so goddamn catchy you won't be able to shake them from your brain. --Bob Weinberg, City Link Magazine, August 2005...so sweet, so sincerely, romantically in search of beauty that shunning them might be a sign of grave emotional decay... --Dylan Hicks, City Pages, July 27, 2005 From the Artist »Sing along with Acid House Kings« is not only a proof of the emerging Swedish pop scene, it’s the cream of the lot. And yes, you can sing along. They’ll even include a free karaoke DVD with the album {the very first in musical history} to help you do so. About the Artist Sweden’s no 1 guitar pop band. Acid House Kings was started by the teenagers Joakim Ödlund (also in Poprace, Starlet and Doubledan), brothers Niklas (also in Red Sleeping Beauty) and Johan Angergård (also in Club 8, Poprace and The Legends) back in 1991 inspired by the English anorak scene (most bands on labels like Sarah, Subway and Heaven would be considered as favorites at this time). The band recorded their first songs and sent them only to one label, the German pop label Marsh-Marigold. A few months later their debut single »Play pop! EP« was released. In 1992, Acid House Kings set up a 10-year plan: a trilogy of albums with one album released exactly every 5th year. Each album was to be filled with catchy guitar pop songs but with new themes and a growing maturity from album to album. The first album in trilogy was the twee ‘Pop, Look & Listen’ released on Marsh-Marigold in 1992. The album was followed by the 6-track ep ‘Monaco G.P.’ and a European tour in 1994. With the 2nd part of Acid House Kings album trilogy the band wanted to create catchy quality pop (a bit like The Smiths for summer days instead of lonely autumn nights looked up in your room). That album was ‘Advantage Acid House Kings’. The band changed labels for this album to Shelflife in the US and Harmony in Japan. On this album the singer Julia Lannerheim was introduced in the band as a guest singer on a couple of songs. The album was released in rather small quantities and sold out quickly. It's now been re-released by Labrador Records. In 2001 Acid House Kings built a studio of their own, Summersound Studios, in order to make a perfectly sophisticated pop production for the 3rd installment in the trilogy. Joakim was unable to make it to the recording studio because of the fact that he was living too far from it. But on the other hand Julia became a full-time member of the band. The year was a creative burst for the Kings. The result was ‘Mondays Are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays’. It's an easy, breezy, beautiful album with more lasting qualities than any of the other albums in the trilogy. It was released in 2002 on Parasol (US), Quince (Japan), Magnum (South East Asia) and Labrador (Europe). Spurred by the wide acclaim for ‘Mondays...’ Acid House Kings immediately begun working on the plan for the second 10 year period and on what was to become ‘Sing along with Acid House Kings’. The new album also saw the return of founding member Joakim Ödlund on guitar. See more