daylies music: Swedesplease

Friday, July 24, 2009

Swedesplease

Posted: 23 Jul 2009 11:25 AM PDT

I know I’m thought of as a fan of twee and indie pop, which presumes I’m not much of a fan of musicians that can actually play their instruments or of bands that can actually put together a semblance of an intricate pop song. But that’s not the case. In fact in another life I was clearly either a fan of 50’s jazz or eastern European folk because it’s bands inspired by those two styles that often show up here and on my folk/roots site Songs:Illinois.

And that’s the case today with the band Monde Yeux. They play a brand of indie pop that is more fleshed out with larger arrangements, more instrumentation, and better musicality (is that even a word?”). Check out the retro organ intro to “Long Gone” from their upcoming album Duke & The Drug Dealing Dinosaurs or the shifts in time signatures as the song goes from a jaunty pace to a waltz and then to almost punk like feverishness.

Long Gone

Monde Yeux performing “Long Gone” at Hultsfred