People's Record is an album by Club 8, released in 2010. The album is a pop CD. - W/INSPIRATION FROM BRAZIL & WESTERN AFRICA
2010 release from the Swedish band who blend a unique World Music twist into their own brand of Indie and Twee Pop. For People's Record, the band travelled to Brazil for inspiration, bought records made in the '70's in Western Africa, used a percussion player from Cuba and hooked up with producer Jari Haapalainen (The Concretes, Camera Obscura, Ed Harcourt). The result is unique mix of Swedish pop melodies and African rythmes - undoubtably one of the most unique, captivating and catchiest Pop records of the year!
After six albums of bossa nova-tinged melancholy, the Swedes Johan Angergård and Karolina Komstedt have discovered fun through a pile of Brazilian and...
Qichen Zhang - 27/May/2010
Even the most spontaneous and/or tolerant of audiophiles need a quieting anchor in times of auditory overload. In modern life, anyone rational will ha...
Laura Studarus - 18/May/2010
Since 1996, Club 8 have been churning out sophisticated pop in their native Sweden with nary a Stateside accolade. (Anyone Anyone) For The People's ...
Dave Heaton - 17/May/2010
Three years after the release of the elaborate box set celebrating their first decade (Labrador 100: A Complete History of Popular Music), Sweden’s La...
Matthew Perpetua - 17/May/2010
There are some things about Club 8 records that are always the same. The line-up, for one thing-- Johan Angergård is the composer, and Karolina Koms...
Don Yates - 10/May/2010
This Swedish duo revamps their sound on their 7th album to stunning effect. While their past records have incorporated some Bossa Nova influences, thi...
cmureviews - 30/Apr/2010
Sweden's Club 8 emerged at the start of the noughties with a non-too-original but deftly executed sound - twee indie pop mixing guitars, electronics a...
Thibaut Allemand - 14/Jun/2010
Lemulti-instrumentiste Johan Angergård est un véritable stakhanoviste pop. Ancienguitariste des mineurs mais séminaux Poprace, on le vit monter sur le...