Peter Bjorn & John prep Seaside Rock
After spending the first half of the year concentrating on his solo venture, Peter Morén is ready to rejoin Bjorn and John for the trio’s followup to 2006’s Writer’s Block. Entitled, Seaside Rock, Peter Bjorn and John will release their mostly instrumental, fourth studio album on September 23 via Almost Gold/Star Time International.
But as grownups, the memory of the sound of the Swedish music school orchestras from hell wasn’t really that bad. When Peter Bjorn and John thought about it, they realized it was kind of fantastic.
The timbre of a bunch of youngsters trying to play saxophone and failing is a good sound. The sound of a violin being played by a beginner who hates it is superb.
Soon the idea of making an instrumental album with these types of sounds seemed like a great idea. And since the childhood of each of the three members was quite similar (growing up bored in small villages located near water in the north of Sweden), Peter Bjorn and John decided to have the themes of water and boredom as inspiration for the record.
The ten track record will be a vinyl- and digital- release only. Stereogum is offering a taste of the album’s first single, “Inland Empire”…
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“Inland Empire”
Seadside Rock Tracklist:
01. Inland Empire
02. Say Something (Mukiya)
03. Favour of the Season
04. Next Stop Bjursele
05. School of Kraut
06. Erik’s Fishing Trip
07. Needles and Pills
08. Norrlands Riviera
09. Barcelona
10. At the Seaside
Dec 15th, 2008 at 9:05 am
[...] going all instrumental for a while, Peter Bjorn & John appear to be gearing up for the release of their fifth studio [...]