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  • Genre: Alternative / Electronica / Indie

    Location Helsinki, FI

    Profile Views: 97357

    Last Login: 4/2/2013

    Member Since 8/1/2006

    Website gentlemanlosers.com

    Record Label City Centre Offices, Büro, Nóthings66, Warp, Standard Form

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ......The Gentleman Losers.. | ..MySpace Music Videos......Dustland Teaser...... .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "The Gentleman Losers are nothing short of one of the best things I've heard all year." Jennifer Allan / Angry Ape .. .. "This is a stunning release for City Centre Offices' new Büro imprint, and one that haunts and enchants with its timeless beauty." Ian Roullier / Clash .. .. "Les cow-boys dans l'espace... Pour se figurer la musique de ces losers finlandais, il suffit d'imaginer le Ry Cooder de la BO de Paris, Texas, perdu dans les étoiles, ou encore le Neil Young du Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch reconverti en version post-rock... ...belles atmosphères qui évoquent des routes sans fin, des paysages en cinémascope et l'errance initiatique des perssonages de Kerouac" Jean-Yves Leloup / Trax .. .. "..carefully constructed ambient soundscape that woozily makes its way through towering clouds of nebulous menace." Kansai Time Out, Japan .. .. "Da wo Jazz, Blues und Country zu Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts an den Crossroads standen, wollen The Gentleman Losers hin, nur tauschen sie alles Erdige gegen die Weite eines verlassenen Flugplatzes. *****" Debug .. .. "This is music for seeing mirages to." Almost Cool music reviews .. .. "The brothers weave lazy acoustic and electric guitar parts through hazy synthesized chords, adding dusty handclaps and hesitant percussion as the songs drift through imagined glimmering dusks and distant smoky dawns." The Wire .. .. "Masterfully cinematic, wonderfully sublime, a genuine pleasure!" .. Trevor Jackson .. .. "I might as well get to the meat of what you, the reader, want to know. Screw objectivity, this is the best thing I’ve heard all 2006. ...Put bluntly, if this record asked me to jump off a cliff you would find me approaching the ground below seconds later weeping tears of joy that these musical poets had deigned fit to address me." Indiecult .. .. "Album of the year." Boomkat .. .. You can buy our album here: .. ..A Number of Small Things.. .. ..Forcedexposure.com.. .. ..Boomkat.com.. .. ..CDUniverse.com.. .. ..Amazon.com.. .. ..Itunes.com.. .. ..Stupido.fi.. .. .. Publishing: ..Mute Song.. .. .. Booking (EU inc UK): ..Peter @ Word Of Mouth Agency..

  • Members

    Samu Kuukka, Ville Kuukka

  • Influences

    In no particular order: Tom Waits, Neil Young, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Drake, Sparklehorse, Daniel Lanois, Charles Bukowski, Depeche Mode, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean Vigo, Mark Hollis, Low, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Band, Lee Hazlewood, Pink Floyd, Vincent Gallo, Les Baxter, Serge Gainsbourg, Jack Kerouac, Francoise Hardy, John Fante, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Rimbaud, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, François Truffaut, Arvo Pärt, Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Luc Godard, U2, Franz Kafka, J.S. Bach, Leonard Cohen, Brian Eno, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Delerue, Gram Parsons, Giacomo Puccini, Neu!, Kate Bush, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Agents, Topi Sorsakoski, Roy Orbison, early Genesis, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Stina Nordenstam, Mazzy Star, early King Crimson, Shriekback, J.J. Cale, The Velvet Underground, W. A. Mozart, Ennio Morricone, The Flying Burrito Brothers, George Gershwin, Townes Van Zandt, William S. Burroughs, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, Coleman Hawkins, David Bowie, The Smiths, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Simon, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Wilco, Billie Holiday, Emmylou Harris, Kurt Weill, Jimmy Scott, Jackson C. Frank, David Lynch, Scott Walker just to name a few that came to mind.

  • Sounds Like

    Yo mama.

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"The Gentleman Losers are nothing short of one of the best things I've heard all year." Jennifer Allan / Angry Ape

"This is a stunning release for City Centre Offices' new Büro imprint, and one that haunts and enchants with its timeless beauty." Ian Roullier / Clash

"Les cow-boys dans l'espace... Pour se figurer la musique de ces losers finlandais, il suffit d'imaginer le Ry Cooder de la BO de Paris, Texas, perdu dans les étoiles, ou encore le Neil Young du Dead Man de Jim Jarmusch reconverti en version post-rock... ...belles atmosphères qui évoquent des routes sans fin, des paysages en cinémascope et l'errance initiatique des perssonages de Kerouac" Jean-Yves Leloup / Trax

"..carefully constructed ambient soundscape that woozily makes its way through towering clouds of nebulous menace." Kansai Time Out, Japan

"Da wo Jazz, Blues und Country zu Anfang des letzten Jahrhunderts an den Crossroads standen, wollen The Gentleman Losers hin, nur tauschen sie alles Erdige gegen die Weite eines verlassenen Flugplatzes. *****" Debug

"This is music for seeing mirages to." Almost Cool music reviews

"The brothers weave lazy acoustic and electric guitar parts through hazy synthesized chords, adding dusty handclaps and hesitant percussion as the songs drift through imagined glimmering dusks and distant smoky dawns." The Wire

"Masterfully cinematic, wonderfully sublime, a genuine pleasure!"
Trevor Jackson

"I might as well get to the meat of what you, the reader, want to know. Screw objectivity, this is the best thing I’ve heard all 2006. ...Put bluntly, if this record asked me to jump off a cliff you would find me approaching the ground below seconds later weeping tears of joy that these musical poets had deigned fit to address me." Indiecult

"Album of the year." Boomkat

You can buy our album here:
A Number of Small Things
Forcedexposure.com
Boomkat.com
CDUniverse.com
Amazon.com
Itunes.com
Stupido.fi

Publishing: Mute Song

Booking (EU inc UK): Peter @ Word Of Mouth Agency

Member Since:

August 01, 2006

Members:

Samu Kuukka, Ville Kuukka

Influences:

In no particular order: Tom Waits, Neil Young, Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Drake, Sparklehorse, Daniel Lanois, Charles Bukowski, Depeche Mode, Angelo Badalamenti, Jean Vigo, Mark Hollis, Low, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, The Band, Lee Hazlewood, Pink Floyd, Vincent Gallo, Les Baxter, Serge Gainsbourg, Jack Kerouac, Francoise Hardy, John Fante, Ingmar Bergman, Arthur Rimbaud, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, François Truffaut, Arvo Pärt, Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, Django Reinhardt, Jean-Luc Godard, U2, Franz Kafka, J.S. Bach, Leonard Cohen, Brian Eno, Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Delerue, Gram Parsons, Giacomo Puccini, Neu!, Kate Bush, Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Agents, Topi Sorsakoski, Roy Orbison, early Genesis, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, Stina Nordenstam, Mazzy Star, early King Crimson, Shriekback, J.J. Cale, The Velvet Underground, W. A. Mozart, Ennio Morricone, The Flying Burrito Brothers, George Gershwin, Townes Van Zandt, William S. Burroughs, Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, Aki and Mika Kaurismäki, Coleman Hawkins, David Bowie, The Smiths, Sergei Eisenstein, Paul Simon, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Wilco, Billie Holiday, Emmylou Harris, Kurt Weill, Jimmy Scott, Jackson C. Frank, David Lynch, Scott Walker just to name a few that came to mind.

Sounds Like:

Yo mama.

Record Label:

City Centre Offices, Büro, Nóthings66, Warp, Standard Form

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