Upstart Finnish label has announced that they will be releasing the debut album from The New Tigers (featuring members from Goodnight Monsters) on September 21. Hear a sample tune: http://soundcloud.com/soliti/pocketful-of-sand
Goodnight Monsters shoegazey sideproject The New Tigers have a new CDr release out on and you can go there to preview it in full: http://www.boneshop.net/product_info.php?products_id=129
New European dates for Finnish indiepop act Goodnight Monsters:
06/02 - Scheune, Dresden (GER) w/Cats On Fire
06/03 - Karlstorbahnhof, Heidelberg (GER) w/Cats On Fire
06/04 - Atomic Cafe, München (GER) w/Cats On Fire
06/05 - Klub Drushba, Halle (GER) w/Cats On Fire
06/06 - Gleis 22, Münster (GER) w/Cats On Fire
06/07 - Havanna 8, Marburg (GER)
06/10 - Le Cri De La Mouette, Toulouse (FRA)
06/11 - Backstage, Paris (FRA)
06/12 - Stereo Wonderland, Cologne (GER)
Goodnight MonstersIf you're into such bands as The Ladybug Transistor, Essex Green and The Lucksmiths, Finland's Goodnight Monsters could well be worth investigating. Their first album came out in late 2005 and it was quite decent, with a handful of memorable tunes on it. "Summer challenge" is a more professional album that feels like a real follow-up and improvement from their previous offering (unlike a lot of second albums). The songs can come across a bit cheesy now and then, and Goodnight Monsters don't really manage to carry off their happy go lucky twee schtick for 13 songs, but it's an enjoyable album and by listening to it in the freezing cold outside, I can go back to one of those teenage delusions and pretend I'm walking down some Californian beach, eating a corn dog and drinking a cherry Coke (smiling, not retching!).
- Simon Tagestam
Finnish indiepop act Goodnight Monsters will have their album "Summer challenge" released in the UK on August 1 and in Japan on August 9.
Finnish act Goodnight Monsters will be streaming new tracks off their forthcoming album "Summer challenge" at myspace, one day at a time between the dates of May 17-29. Link: http://www.myspace.com/goodnightmonsters
Bone Voyage has confirmed that the new Goodnight Monsters album "Summer challenge" will be released on June 4. Expect the first single in late April.
Also posted today: a profile of Finnish indiepop act Goodnight Monsters: [click here]
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If you've heard and liked The Boy Least Likely To, I urge you to seek this album out as soon as you can. It's breezy summer pop with perfect melodies that deserves to outsell James Blunt. The album begins with a trio of magnificent songs, "Girl", "Big jet", and "20 fingers 20 toes"; which is one of the strongest album openings I've heard in a long time. Two of these tracks can be found on GM's myspace page, so go and listen to them. Since I'm no fan of instrumental music, I would have preferred if the short instrumental interludes wouldn't have featured on the album (I could also have done without the 10 minute boring jam session that "Demonstrator" is), but all in all this is an exceptional album to kick start the summer.
- Simon Tagestam
This week's top 20 Norwegian student radio chart:
01. Goodnight Monsters - 20 Fingers 20 Toes (Musikkoperatørene)
02. Bonk - The House (Racing Jounior)
03. Darkside Of the Force - Everywhere We Go (C+C Records)
04. Adem - Warning Call (Domino)
05. The Goo Men - Out Tonight (No Fucking Hippies)
06. Malajube - Montreal 40C (Dare To Care)
07. Lorraine - I Feel It (Universal)
08. Franz Ferdinand - L. Wells (Domino)
09. Feeder - Lost & Found (PIAS)
10. Kate Havnevik - Unlike Me (Continentica)
11. Ugly Duckling - Bob Your Head (PIAS)
12. Infadels - Love Like Semtex (PIAS)
13. Snow Patrol - You¹re All I Have (Fiction)
14. Quasi - The Rhino (Domino)
15. Silence The Foe - I Killed The Last Punk (Playground)
16. Islands - Big Bluff (Rough Trade)
17. Racing Ape - You¹re On Your Own (Warner/Chappel)
18. Johnossi - Execution Song (V2 Records)
19. The Appleseed Cast - February (Racing Junior)
20. Be Your Own Pet - Ouch (XL Recordings)
Updated dates for Finland's Goodnight Monsters:
04/15 - Bar Wellington, Tampere (FIN)
05/10 - Carnegie Hall, Tigerfest, Dunfermline (UK)
05/17 - Klub Drushba, Halle (GER)
05/18 - Ilses Erika, PopUp - Das Clubfestival, Leipzig (GER)
05/19 - Grüner Jäger, Hamburg (GER)
Download "20 fingers 20 Toes" from Finnish act Goodnight Monsters: http://www.bbisland.de/downloads.php3?useartist=16&myversion=EN
