#thulebasen

Paint Groove #5 "Space Explorer"

1. A Rainbow in Curved Air - Terry Riley

2. Fur Seelenbinder - Kosmischer Laufer

3. Andro - Denis Wise

4. Yzx - Thulebasen

5. Taxi Zum No - Heatsick

6. Horas Tristes - Mueran Humanos

7. The Word II - セキトオシゲオ (Shigeo Sekito)

"Monster (Radio Edit)" by Thulebasen

Here at Squealer, we are under no pretence of self-importance. We are aware that our audience is far more interested in what the artists that we feature have to say than the nerdy "journalists" that put together the write-ups on those musicians.

With this in mind, we will likely eschew a record selection to represent our interest in the releases of 2012, and instead feature the picks of the artists whose work is clearly far more important.

We begin with Copenhagen's Thulebasen. Featured here, and the first of plenty:

- Muzz - Light show (CS) - Lamburg Tony - Noise Dance - Lucky Dragons - Publicity Reform - Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland - The Attitude Era - Father Murphy - Anyway Your Children Will Deny It - THEESatisfaction - Awe Naturale - Daughn Gibson - All Hell - U.S. Girls - GEM - Girlseeker - 1-800-Greed - Lower - Someone's Got It in for Me/But There Has to Be More

Having featured Iceage, Lower and Vår on our blog already, the time feels right to extend our remit out even further into Copenhagen's fertile underground punk scene. Branching upwards and outwards from the (relatively) straighter punk centre-pieces of the close-knit circle of bands, scene representatives Escho Records recently released Thulebasen's fantastic Gate 5 album.

Thulebasen are unlike Iceage and Lower in many respects. The latter's brittle punk rock references Joy Division, Birthday Party: dark, sneering influences who even underwrite major chords when they infrequently appear. Thulebasen, as an antidote, are neither saccharine nor summery; not a diet interpretation of their harsher siblings, but a freakier, more psychedelic foil. The foundation on punk is still there, of course, but theirs has been cross-bred with the acidity of Grateful Dead or Jefferson Airplane and the reverb-heavy spaciousness of Young Marble Giants.

thulebasen ° forever grinning

fricking danish grungey ass sounding psychedelic awesomeness.