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| Nme |
 God bless the humble handclap. Pop would be bereft without it. But what do you get when you soul-shuffle it with the Wigan Casino, a Phil Spector wig and five mini-skirted Swedes? Whack in a dizzying Hammond organ and you’ve got the kind of sherbet-pop that promises to get all the girls hip-swaying on the dancefloor (because getting girls on the dancefloor is what pop’s all about). Hailing from the Stockholm suburb of Nacka, it’s no surprise this sashaying quintet originate from the land of Abba. What is a surprise is their love affair with both northern soul and ’60s girl groups. Put them together and you have a kaleidoscopic mash-up only the Nordic could attempt to get away with....full text |
| Contactmusic |
| Review of Those Dancing Days album In Our Space Hero Suits released through Wichita. You have to go all the way back to the days of Abba and 'Waterloo' to find the last time Sweden provided the rest of the world with its own really incisive brand of pop music. Sure there've been brief flirtations with greatness since; The Wannadies' 'You And Me Song' and The Hives' 'Hate To Say I Told You So' being two of the more recently substantial efforts. Aside from that though, it's been a fairly barren wasteland of promise (remember The Sounds, anyone?) but little in the way of a final delivery. Enter Those Dancing Days then, five teenage girls from the suburbs of Stockholm. Their brand of sixties girl group-meets-northern soul inspired punk pop has had many critics frothing at the mouth since their excellent self-produced 'Those Dancing Days EP' landed unsuspectingly on our doormats at the back end of last year. A complete breath of fresh air in a music scene dominated by tired lad rock bands and overwrought, over-pretentious Americans with very little to say. Here was the sound of a band truly at ease with what they were doing. If it were possible to convey the emotion of enjoyment through the sound of music, this would have been the statutory Oxford definition....full text |
| Musicomh |
| Fresh out of Stockholm, the latest indie pop sensations from Sweden are here to win over your hearts and brighten your days. Lower those eyebrows and banish all prejudices at the door, this album is worth more than just a cursory listen. Linnea Jünsson, Lisa Pyk, Rebecka Rolfart, Mimmi Evrell and Cissi Efraimsson, the five girls who comprise Those Dancing Days, had barely left school before they began to garner lots of hype in their native Sweden. Lately they have crossed over to mainland Europe and the UK and begun wowing many impressionable young and slightly older men with their punchy punk-lite pop and distinctly perky live shows. Those dependable folk at Wichita Recordings have snapped up UK distribution rights for this impressive debut bow, although I could have done without the coy indieisms of the title. For a bunch of Swedish teenagers, Those Dancing Days certainly know their pop history, naming themselves after a track by hoary old rockers Led Zeppelin and basing their sound on a healthy fusion of new wave and pop punk acts such as Blondie, Bow Wow Wow and The Go-Go's....full text |
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