September 13, 2006

{ Teddybears "Soft Machine" }

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First they were Skull. That was 1991. Then they were Teddybears STHLM. That was from about 1993 until 2005. Now they're just Teddybears. And you've already heard them. Now you're about to hear and see them a lot more. The Stockholm-based trio's pop has been everywhere recently, in commercials, TV shows, video games and all that. They've been grindcore. They've been electronic. They've been rockers. They've been all kinds of shit. And I know that's normally a very bad thing, but now they're about to release "Soft Machine" in the States and really, it's just kind of great. With all it's trunky-junk international stylings and sounds, it's never-know-what-genre-is-coming-next flavorings, and it's major-label-hype-machine-polish-and-factory-gloss, this collection of older and newest proven hooks adds up to be kind of a little mashed-up pop masterp... Wait, no, it's not that good. But it'll rock your ass for a pretty long couple weeks or months and make all the people in your car be like, "Oh damn, who is this?" - meaning by today's scale it's mighty fine. Collaborators on the release include Iggy Pop, Neneh Cherry, Elephant Man, Annie and more, plus there are already several bangin' refixes floating around the web by the likes of Diplo and Squeek E Clean (it's called Google bitch, it ain't expensive). Album cover of the year, by the way. Get at the free stuff below to whet your whistle.

     » Teddybears Official Site
     » Teddybears MySpace
     » "Yours To Keep" f. Neneh Cherry is the iTunes Single of the Week = FREE
     » Teddybears "Yours To Keep (Annie Mix)" MP3
     » Teddybears "Punkrocker (Squeek E Clean Remix)" MP3

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