Stereolab, Loveletter, Smiths, New Order, Softies, Kings of Convenience, Sondre Lerche, The Chills, The Go-betweens, Death By chockolate, The Sound, Prefab Sprout, Rocketship, Pale Saints, Kanda, Mahogany, Seely, Figurine, Postal Service, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Eggstone, Magnetic Fields, The legends, Arcade Fire, April March, Wannadies, St Etienne, The Beautiful People, The Triffids, Jaga Jazzist, Røyksopp, First Floor Power, Tortoise, Bob Hund, Postal Blue, Silverapples, Astrud Gilbertro, The Tables, Trembling Blue Stars, Loch Ness Mouse, Sambassadeur, TIAC, The Knife, The Blow, Grand Prix 86, Stereo Total, Momus, They Might Be Giants, Throw That Beat On The Garbagecan, Jens Lekman, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Lucksmiths, Phoenix, Annie, Professor Pez, Testbild, Language Of Flowers, Pipas, tweepop, Indie pop, shoegaze, casio-pop, Remington super 60, Don Juan Dracula, Tøyen, Hello Goodbye, Micromars + + + +
Sounds Like
We are told that Kawaii is a pleasent mixture between Stereolab, Magnetic Fields, Pipas, Postal Service, Remington Super 60, OMD, Astrud Gilberto and Belle & Sebastian. hmmm...do you agree?
Kawaii is a norwegian indiepop boy/girl duo based in Trondheim/Bergen. Our sound is mostly pleasent and sweet, but not without substance. We worships vintage synths/drum-machines, boy/girl vocals, pretty harmonies, toys, disarming lyrics, xylofones, guitars..everything that comes in hand actually. The songs where recorded in the corner of a tiny kitchen, and turned out to be a rather pleasent semi-tweelectronic feast...homemade and sweet, but haunting and challenging as well.
Kawaii's (very well recieved) debut album "if it shines, we have it" was released by Shelflife, USA, november 2004. Mahogany did some creative treatments on half of the tracks. We are forever grateful. Feel free to lend it an ear....the songs on myspace are taken from this album.
ALTERNATIVEMALTA: "Track after track of musical optimism. Go ahead and brighten your day."
BT: "Close to sensational. The most exciting norwegian debutants of the year. (in norwegian)
NOTODO: "Kawaii is one of the most outstanding bands at this present time, and their debut demonstrates this clearly." (in spanish)
DELUSION OF ADEQUACY: "Kawaii offers delightful indiepop. Highly recomended."
ERASING CLOUDS: "Wonderful pop melodies - A lovely album."
MIRA EL PENDULO: "wow, what an album! The Norwegians surprice us with, perhaps, the best album of the year." (in spanish)
SPLENDID EZINE: "Moments of absolute pop-bliss!"
VANITY PROJECT: "Kawaii make lo-fi electro pop with a shiny veneer for the IKEA-generation."
LE MANCHESTER: "Kawaii is my new norwegian favourite band." (in swedish)
BABES IN BOYLAND: "Nice fresh and springy tracks in the best pop tradition".
MUNDANE SOUNDS: "The overall sincerity factor of their music will win you over instantly."
THINK SMALL: "A nice mixture of homemade electro and fresh pop. I really like the album."
UNPOPULAR: "Aren't Kawaii swedish? it sounds like Sweden stole the blueprints to great pop. Why dont i live in sweden!? (a tiny nationallity-mixup here - we are from Norway - but we take it as an compliment, hehe).
Download Release Date: November 30th 2009 Record Label: STRFCK RCRDS Downloadable from all good portals, everywhere! I-Tunes. Play.co.uk and the remixes on Beatport as well!
The Beatport release will feature the 3 remixes as an “We don’t care about the remixes” EP.
As a present, for 1 week only, you can pick up for free an exclusive radio edit from Chew Fu (Lady GaGa’s DJ, remixer for Rihanna and Beyonce, and just recorded the “hottest track of the year”, said Zane Lowe, with his new single featuring Wiley ‘Take that!’). Not an mp3, but the full WAV! Not available anywhere else!
Please support our Indie Pop "EP CLUB" presented by Series Two Records and Eggnog Records. It is a collaboration between an Indie Pop label in Nebraska and one in New Zealand. The indie pop EP CLUB's include artists from around the world.
Our song 'Yellow Suit' climbed up the first FRIEND VOTE Indie Top 100 Chart at No. 2!! on this week. Maybe our friends can help us get no 1 for Monday. Vote for AMYCANBE at http://www.myspace.com/indietop100 Until again, all the best, Amycanbe
Yes!!! We are in PEACE, compilation for Amnesty International out next January, along with other great names. See our blog section for infos. Cheers!!
Hai mein über freund! Everything going gut? We have released ein new betongelectrical song, ze "post-apocalyptic"! Check it out when you can! -Postwerk
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I'm trying to hype my invention's page. I got a patent on this flashy guitar light-up application. Plus, I added some tunes. Leave me a comment. Cheers, Ian.
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