99 Minutes #24: Lindstrøm

The new episode of Listen to Norway's "99 Minutes" podcast program is now online and features special guest Lindstrøm: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2012061414284639789883

Lindstrøm, My bubba & Mi to Culture Collide

Lindstrøm and My bubba & Mi (who?) are the first Scandinavian acts confirmed for the 2011 edition of Filter Magazine's Culture Collide fest happening in LA this October: https://culturecollide.com/

Lindstrøm in the US again

Smalltown Supersound has announced that Lindstrøm will be doing a few US dates next week: https://www.smalltownsupersound.com/2011/02/08/lindstr%c3%b8m-tour-2/

Music Export Norway starts Export Program, Lindstrøm first recipient

Music Export Norway has started a new music export initiative, the first of which is going towards Lindstrøm: https://www.musicexportnorway.no/first-export-program-goes-to-lindstroem.4847320-149133.html

Lindstrøm in the US

Lindstrøm is doing a few US dates in November:

11/12 - Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA
11/13 - LPR, New York, NY
11/14 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL

99 Minutes #2

The second episode of Listen to Norway's podcast series "99 Minutes" is now available: https://www.listento.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2010052814203489182421
Featured acts include Casiokids, Biosphere, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Shining and Apoptygma Berzerk plus an interview with Jørgen Skjulstad of Metronomicom Audio

Pitchfork Guest List: Lindstrøm and Christabelle

Lindstrøm and Christabelle do the Guest List thing for Pitchfork: https://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7768-lindstrm-christabelle/

Lindstrøm & Christabelle
Real life is no cool
Smalltown Supersound

The 80s sitcom that runs in Lindstrøm's head must be a good one. His punchy pianos and retrofitted synthesizers don't just wink and nod to some tinny ancestor, they're as at home in the era as the TV families that materialized behind the electro-cheese of their theme songs. If that's true, then "Real life is no cool", Lindstrøm's album with seductive Norwegian-Mauritian songstress Christabelle might as well be "Family Matters". Lindstrøm is the whitewashed theme, and Christabelle a young Laura Winslow, the pristinely beautiful center of attention. But while "Family Matters'" stiff and unsexy theme may be the most ill-matched theme of all time, Lindstrøm has no problem relating to Christabelle -- his retrograde stylings are an oddly synchronous fit for her breathy delivery. Nowhere is this faultless latticework more noticeable than on "Keep it up" and "High and low", two songs that tower above the album. On these, Christabelle's ineffable sexiness reigns supreme. Lindstrøm's vocal production here is a sort of anti-social enabler: the subtle cracks and pops of Christabelle's half-whispered consonants actually succeed at creating an air of intimacy. That's a massive compliment given that it's a dance album. So "High and low" and "Keep it up" are the consummate singles: they've got enough holdover from the spacey futurism of 2008's "Where I go you go too" to please the diehards, and enough short-form nostalgia to seduce the iTunes generation. But elsewhere on the album, Lindstrøm's backwards gaze becomes pure pastiche. "Baby can't stop" is an MJ retread without the slightest hint of distinction, and "Lovesick"'s Survivor bassline is just that -- a Survivor bassline. Ultimately, though, this album comes as good news to those of us who found Lindstrøm's earlier work too inscrutable or too lengthy for consumption. "Real life is no cool" distills Lindstrøm to sitcom-sized morsels of dance music deeply invigorated by the smoky sensuality of Christabelle's vocals.
- Nathan Keegan

PopMatters, Dusted review Lindstrøm and Christabelle

PopMatters weighs in on the Lindstrøm & Christabelle collaboration "Real life is no cool": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/119177-lindstrm-and-christabelle-real-life-is-no-cool/
Dusted covers the record as well, in probably the best of the reviews I've seen so far: https://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5473

Pitchfork review Lindstrøm, jj

Pitchfork reviews the Lindstrøm & Christabelle collaboration "Real life is no cool": https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13848-real-life-is-no-cool/
Also at Pitchfork, a surprisingly downbeat track review for jj: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11720-let-go/

Lindstrøm drummer boy preview

Pitchfork has a 5-minute edit of Lindstrøm's epic 40-minute version of "Little drummer boy": https://pitchfork.com/news/37228-hear-lindstrms-little-drummer-boy/
Personally, five seems like too much.

New Lindstrøm album release confirmed

The new Lindstrøm album with featured vocalist Christabelle will be called "Real life is no cool" and is set for release on January 18, 2010.

Lindstrøm prepares a lump of coal for your stocking

Pitchfork reports that Lindstrøm is working on a 40-minute version of the holiday evergreen "Little drummer boy": https://pitchfork.com/news/36938-lindstrm-making-a-40-minute-version-of-little-drummer-boy/
I didn't write this, but it's a comment well worth repeating: "Hate to say it but this guy no longer has to even TRY to be impossibly boring. It just happens."

More Warmer Climes mixtapes

More recently posted Warmer Climes mixtapes: Tomas Halberstad, Daniel Gustafson (The Weather), Patrik Jensen (PATS) and Lindstrøm.

MIC Norway interviews Lindstrøm

MIC Norway talks to acclaimed electronic artist/producer/label boss Lindstrøm: https://www.mic.no/mic.nsf/doc/art2009030909431354294804