Under the Influence of the 70s

“I could be brown, I could be blue, […] Why don’t you like me? Why don’t you like me?” Well, Mika, let me tell you: it’s nothing personal. It’s just that it has been you and your silly, yet brilliant, track all over the radio for the last couple of months. Fourteen-year-old girls all over the world have started googling who the hell is Grace Kelly, something they hadn’t been doing since OutKast released ‘Rosa Parks’!

The world is screaming for a solution to this Mika-overkill, and I’m proud to let you all know that Ulkedoof will finally bring an end to your despair. Two members of the editorial staff of this highly appreciated and internationally leading music weblog have attended the unofficial presentation of Mika’s successors as the world’s most beloved Indie-fähig act that will inevitably be picked up by every thirteen in a dozen radio station, putting it in their playlists somewhere between Ph*l C*ll*ns and L**n*l R*ch**: Under The Influence Of Giants

Their sound could definitely be compared to that of Mika, although their album had its first release half a year before Mika’s. Apart from that, we can hear some Scissor Sisters, a little Delays perhaps and finally a subtle touch of The Shins. Or, to refrain from this kind of standard reviewers’ discourse, they provided us with an album containing nothing but hits. Even the unreleased tracks you will find groping their way through the internet are genuine earwigs! In addition, their so-called flirting with the seventies could easlily be confused with straightforward whoring.

Their album will get its European release on July 17th. Some highlighs:
Mama's Room (vid)
In The Clouds (vid)
Ah-Ha (mp3)
Self-recorded outro of 'Meaningless Love' (poor quality, live@Ekko) (vid)