I Love You Baby! to tour Ukraine

I Love You Baby! is heading to Ukraine in May:

05/12 - Churchill, Xharkiv
05/13 - Gungubazz, Donetsk
05/14 - Master Schmidt, Dniepropetrovsk
05/16 - Botchka, Kiev
05/17 - Agatha, Xharkiv

Swedish Showcase, together with help from the Swedish Institute, is sending a group of Swedish acts to Belarus in order to "inspire and develop the Belarusian music scene, its artists and organizers." The acts participating: I Love You Baby!, Alice in Videoland, Paris and Pluxus. Dates and details: http://www.swedishshowcase.com/belarus/

New tourdates for Swedish electropunk act I Love You Baby!:

12/06 - tba, Moscow (RUS)
12/07 - tba, Vologda (RUS)
12/09 - tba, Archangelsk (RUS)
12/11 - tba, Novopolovsk (BEL)
12/12 - tba, Vitebsk (BEL)
12/13 - New Sound Land Club, Baranovitji (BEL)
12/14 - tba, Maladzechna (BEL)
12/15 - tba, Minsk (BEL)

Swedish electropunks I Love You Baby! have posted a bunch of live videos from their recent tour of the Eastern Bloc: http://www.iloveyoubaby.se/video2.html

Swedish electropunks I Love You Baby! on tour in Eastern Europe:

03/06 - ZO ZO, Ternopil (UKR)
03/07 - Botchka, Kiev (UKR)
03/08 - Minsk (BZ)
03/09 - New Sound Land club, Boronovichi (BZ)
03/10 - Botchka, Kiev (UKR)

Wacky Swedish electronic act I Love You Baby!, probably the one group that really does truly sound like The Knife (circa the first album), will be touring the Baltics in a couple days:

10/05 - Depo, Riga (LV)
10/06 - Rockiklubbi, Valga (EE)
10/07 - Fontaine Palace, Liepaja (LV)
10/08 - DIY Gyvas, Vilnius (LT)

Podcast: Death disco

MP3: BLLTPRF CPD - Esoteric fraud

Sidestepping from yesterday's post on the damaged no-wave of Knife and Ape, today I bring you the damaged new-wave of BLLTPRF CPD (nee Bulletproof Cupid). When you hear this stuff, the punk-influence claims of other new-wavish acts like The Sounds or Surferosa will seem laughable. They just sound so damn tame in comparison to the furious energy of these dudes. The track I've posted today is much, much more guitar-heavy than a lot of the other, more keyboard driven songs on the record, so my "new-wave" label might seem a bit misleading at first. The band probably does have more in common with the noiserock of old Boner Records bands like Steel Pole Bath Tub or Star Pimp than, say Blondie, but whatever - gotta start somewhere. Besides, don't synths usually equal new-wave? Anyhow, if any of the other Trewetha bands such as I Love You Baby! or The State of Floral Beings piqued your interest, you'll definitely be into this as well. It's in a similar vein, but still with a unique sound of their own. Dig it.
Buy "Halo of flies": [click here]

BLLTPRF CPD - Esoteric fraud

BLLTPRF CPD's (Bulletproof Cupid) new album "Halo of flies" is now available as a paid download from the IAT webstore: [click here]
If you've dug any of the other weirdo-electro-punk Trewetha releases such as I Love You Baby! or The State of Floral Beings, then this is for you.

Swedish art-rock label Trewetha Records, home to I Love You Baby! and The State of Floral Beings, has announced that they'll be releasing the debut album from BLLTPRF CPD this coming fall. More details soon.

I Love You Baby!
Mondegreen
Trewetha Records

I Love You Baby! is one of these projects that is just impossible to define, there is so many styles of electronica in there that you can't really categorize anywhere. There is IDM, Industrial, Hardcore-Techno to minimalism and each done very efficiently. The common thread is that it all sounds like it was produced in the early eighties by members of Skinny Puppy, and, to me, that's a good thing. A bit like Foetus challenged any categorization, ILYB! do it within the span of an album.
- Simon Thibaudeau

Labrador recording artist Pelle Carlberg will be returning to the UK once again at the end of the month including a date with fellow Swedes I Love You Baby!:

01/24 - The Luminaire, London w/The Tailors, The Rushes, Grip Right Swing Right
01/27 - Kåren's Räkmaka @ Hanbury Ballroom, Brighton w/I Love You Baby!
01/28 - Brixton Windmill, London w/Treecreeper, The Bookhouse Boys, The Customers

Podcast: It's been a long time... too long

New mp3 today from Swedish synth act I Love You Baby! Their latest album "Mondegreen" was recently added to the IAT webstore and should appeal to fans of The Knife or any other glitchy, messed-up electro. Along with Trewetha Records labelmates The State of Floral Beings, ILYB! are making some of the most interesting, punk-influenced synth-rock that I've heard recently. There's plenty of pop hooks, but it's still got an edge. Recommended, of course.

MP3: I Love You Baby! - My 49th baby

New mp3 today from Swedish synth act I Love You Baby! Their latest album "Mondegreen" was recently added to the IAT webstore and should appeal to fans of The Knife or any other glitchy, messed-up electro. Along with Trewetha Records labelmates The State of Floral Beings, ILYB! are making some of the most interesting, punk-influenced synth-rock that I've heard recently. There's plenty of pop hooks, but it's still got an edge. Recommended, of course.

I Love You Baby! - My 49th baby