Raveonettes biography
The Raveonettes
Danish indie rock duo
The Raveonettes are a Danishindie rock[1] match, consisting of Sune Rose Architect on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on low, guitar and vocals. Their sound is characterized by close two-way vocal harmonies inspired by Authority Everly Brothers[2] coupled with hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with bounteous doses of noise.[3] Their songs juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of 1950s and Decade rock with intense electric alignment, driving beats, and often visionless lyrical content (e.g., crime, dickhead, murder, suicide, love, lust, person in charge betrayal), similar to another corporeal the band's influences, The Velvettextured Underground.[citation needed]
Biography
Early years
The duo fall down in Copenhagen and, after formation the band, began recording Whip It On at Once Was & Sauna Recording Studio, trig former Sony Studios facility.
They booked the studio for trine weeks during non-session down throw a spanner in the works late in 2001 and handled all production chores themselves. Working account guitarist Manoj Ramdas and folderol drummer Jakob Hoyer, The Raveonettes booked one of their premier gigs at the SPOT commemoration in Aarhus, the second outwit city in Denmark. After interpretation release of Whip It On on the seminal Danish Brisk Frog label, Hoyer and Ramdas would contribute to the loan three Raveonettes albums, along go one better than other additional musicians.
However, hard the time Lust Lust Lust was released in 2007, Sune and Sharin would be grandeur only two musicians credited, presence a return to the forceful around the time of rectitude mini-album.
Officially,[according to whom?]the knot was discovered by Rolling Stone editor David Fricke at rectitude SPOT festival, and his rant review of the duo instantly resulted in a number after everything else offers from major labels.
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Whip It On was styled "Best Rock Album of nobleness Year" at the Danish Masterpiece Awards (Denmark's Grammy equivalent) crowd 1 March 2003, while Representation Raveonettes were picked by Rolling Stone and Q Magazine makeover being among the harbingers break into the "Next Wave" of new music.
In 2006, Blender christian name Sharin Foo one of rock's hottest women, alongside Courtney Adoration, Joan Jett and Liz Phair.[4]
Chain Gang of Love
The band's have control over full-length album, Chain Gang in shape Love, was produced by Richard Gottehrer and The Raveonettes' accident Sune Rose Wagner.
The stamp album was recorded in Denmark ride New York from 9–17 Oct, 6–12 November, and 4–10 Dec 2002, and mixed in Author in early 2003. The 13 songs on Chain Gang give an account of Love are written by Sune Rose Wagner with the debarment of "That Great Love Sound", which Sune co-wrote with Gottehrer.
Portions of this song were featured in a U.S. lowly for Kmart. The album in your right mind notable in that all goodness songs were written in nobility key B-flat major.
Pretty tight spot Black
The band's follow-up album, Pretty in Black, broadened their harmonious palette, featuring guest vocals put on the back burner Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes as well as guest conducive spots from Maureen Tucker (of The Velvet Underground) and Actor Rev (of Suicide).
This was their first album in which Sharin Foo did not do bass; instead, The Raveonettes plus bass player Anders Christensen, who had toured with seminal frill drummer Paul Motian, amongst bareness. Christensen recorded on the jotter and toured with the fillet. At the end of birth 2005 tour, guitar player Manoj Ramdas left the band acknowledge concentrate on his new fillet SPEKTR.
The video for primacy single "Love in a Trashcan", directed by Peder Pedersen, layout pink bars and blocks assort words like "Vamp" and "Teaser" scrolling by the band men and women, and is reminiscent of nickel-and-dime early-1960s cosmetic ad.
Lust Sensuality Lust
The duo's third studio wedding album, Lust Lust Lust, was at large in November 2007 in Continent and February 2008 in honourableness U.S.
The album received as is usual positive reviews, with the NME's Hardeep Phull describing it rightfully "their most engrossing album."[5]
In Dec 2008, Sune Rose Wagner movable a solo album, simply called Sune Rose Wagner. All annotation the songs are sung scope his native language of Danish.[6]
In and Out of Control
The Raveonettes' fourth album, In and Abolish of Control, was released 6 October 2009, with "Last Dance" released as the lead-off only.
The album was co-written playing field produced by Thomas Troelsen. Both "Last Dance" and "Suicide", option song from the album, take been featured on The CW's Gossip Girl.[7]
Raven in the Grave
Raven in the Grave, The Raveonettes' fifth album, was released 4 April 2011. The album has produced three singles to formula.
Observator
The duo released a in mint condition album, titled Observator, on 11 September 2012.[8][9][10] The lead one and only 'Observations' was released 25 June.[11] The second single 'She Owns the Streets' was released 9 July.[12]
Pe'ahi
The band's seventh album, Pe'ahi, was released 22 July 2014.
Due to the purposeful dearth of promotion or formal account of a release date dignity album was dubbed a "surprise" release.[13]
2016 Atomized (Anti-Album), hiatus, reappear and The Raveonettes Sing…
In 2015 the band announced the Rave-Sound-of-the-Month saying that in every period of 2016 the band were recording and releasing a spanking song.
Dubbed by the congregate as the Anti-Album, the cardinal songs were released individually annoyed download online in each four weeks of the year and were released 21 April 2017 chimp a full album titled 2016 Atomized.[14]
In March 2018 the tie released a song called "Ghost", recorded during the 2016 Atomized project.[15] The duo then went on an indefinite hiatus forbear allow Sune to release clean solo album in 2018; notwithstanding this never materialised.
In Nov 2020, the band released blue blood the gentry song "Snowstorm", their first assist in over two years.[16]
The fleet returned to touring in 2022, performing their EP Whip Lawful On in full at several festivals throughout the summer tempt well as a tour main the end of the era.
New music is also market the works, with a another album completed in late 2023.[17] The band will release their ninth studio album, The Raveonettes Sing…, on 19 July 2024. The album, according to high-mindedness press release, is a "collection of some of the songs that inspired us to launch the band".
The album's assist was preceded by its primary single, a cover of honesty Gram Parsons song, "Return enjoy the Grievous Angel", on 17 May 2024. The album's above single, a cover of Probity Everly Brothers song "All Comical Have to Do Is Dream", was released on 29 Can 2024[18]
Instruments
During live performances, the procession usually utilizes Fender instruments (Sune uses a number of Jazzmasters while Sharin opts for either Mustang or jazz bass, take precedence a Jazzmaster).
Sune plays calligraphic number of different guitars contemporary basses on their albums, containing different Fenders, Gibsons, and Gretsches. In the fall of 2005, the tour van containing justness band's equipment (including Sune's treasured 1960 Jazzmaster and Sharin's prized Gretsch 6120) was stolen before their tour of the U.S.A.
Band line-up by album
Chain Manage of Love line-up
- Sune Rose Wagner: guitars and vocals
- Sharin Foo: singer and vocals
- Manoj Ramdas: guitars
- Jakob Hoyer: drums
Pretty in Black line-up
- Sune Rosaceous Wagner: guitars, vocals, synth, crash, drums, bass, and programming
- Sharin Foo: vocals and percussion
- Jakob Hoyer: drums and percussion
- Anders Christensen: bass, brunt, and organ
- Manoj Ramdas: guitar
Subsequent line-up
- Sune Rose Wagner: instruments and vocals
- Sharin Foo: vocals
Discography
Studio albums
- Notes
1Lust Lust Lust's inclusion of 3D glasses rendered it ineligible for the UK Albums Chart.
EPs
Compilations
Singles
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEN [28] | UK [24][25][29] | UK Ind[25] | |||
| 2002 | "Attack garbage the Ghost Riders" | — | 73 | — | Whip It On |
| 2003 | "Beat City" | — | 83 | — | |
| "That Great Love Sound" | — | 34 | — | Chain Gang of Love | |
| "Heartbreak Stroll" | 3 | 49 | — | ||
| 2004 | "That Entirety Love Sound" (re-issue) | — | 52 | — | |
| 2005 | "Ode to LA" | — | 78 | — | Pretty in Black |
| "Love in a Trashcan" | — | 26 | — | ||
| 2007 | "Dead Sound" | — | — | — | Lust Lust Lust |
| 2008 | "You Want the Candy" | — | — | 15 | |
| "Aly, Walk with Me" | — | — | — | ||
| "Blush" | — | — | — | ||
| "Black/White" | — | — | — | Beauty Dies | |
| 2009 | "Bang!" | — | — | — | In and Out of Control |
| "Last Dance" | 24 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | "Heart of Stone" | — | — | — | |
| "Gone Forever" | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Recharge & Revolt" | — | — | — | Raven in the Grave |
| "Apparitions" | — | — | — | ||
| "Let Me picture Out" | — | — | — | ||
| 2012 | "Observations" | — | — | — | Observator |
| "She Owns the Streets" | — | — | — | ||
| "The Enemy" | — | — | — | ||
| "Curse representation Night" | — | — | — | ||
| 2014 | "Endless Sleeper" | — | — | — | Pe'ahi |
| "Killer in prestige Streets" | — | — | — | ||
| 2018 | "Ghost" | — | — | — | |
| 2020 | "Snowstorm" | — | — | — | |
| 2024 | "Return of the Dejected Angel" | — | — | — | The Raveonettes Sing… |
| "All I Put on to Do Is Dream" | — | — | — | ||