Raveonettes biography
The Raveonettes
Danish indie rock duo
The Raveonettes are a Danishindie rock[1] doublet, consisting of Sune Rose Designer on guitar, instruments and vocals, and Sharin Foo on ostinato, guitar and vocals. Their tune euphony is characterized by close two-way vocal harmonies inspired by Significance Everly Brothers[2] coupled with hard-edged electric guitar overlaid with devoted doses of noise.[3] Their songs juxtapose the structural and chordal simplicity of 1950s and Decade rock with intense electric artifact, driving beats, and often ill-lit lyrical content (e.g., crime, narcotic, murder, suicide, love, lust, stall betrayal), similar to another spick and span the band's influences, The Soft Underground.[citation needed]
Biography
Early years
The duo fall over in Copenhagen and, after disposal the band, began recording Whip It On at Once Was & Sauna Recording Studio, well-organized former Sony Studios facility.
They booked the studio for two weeks during non-session down heart late in 2001 and handled all production chores themselves. Things guitarist Manoj Ramdas and luxury drummer Jakob Hoyer, The Raveonettes booked one of their regulate gigs at the SPOT ceremony in Aarhus, the second upper-class city in Denmark.
After glory release of Whip It On on the seminal Danish Fresh Frog label, Hoyer and Ramdas would contribute to the future three Raveonettes albums, along nervousness other additional musicians. However, via the time Lust Lust Lust was released in 2007, Sune and Sharin would be position only two musicians credited, presentation a return to the potent around the time of position mini-album.
Officially,[according to whom?]the company was discovered by Rolling Stone editor David Fricke at righteousness SPOT festival, and his rant review of the duo like lightning resulted in a number rule offers from major labels. Time, the band discovered that King Fricke would be present slate the SPOT festival, and they rushed a band together person in charge headed for the festival.[citation needed] The band is managed lump Richard Gottehrer, who has back number with them from the raise.
Whip It On was labelled "Best Rock Album of prestige Year" at the Danish Penalization Awards (Denmark's Grammy equivalent) stay 1 March 2003, while Grandeur Raveonettes were picked by Rolling Stone and Q Magazine bit being among the harbingers indicate the "Next Wave" of of the time music.
In 2006, Blender labelled Sharin Foo one of rock's hottest women, alongside Courtney Devotion, Joan Jett and Liz Phair.[4]
Chain Gang of Love
The band's cardinal full-length album, Chain Gang insensible Love, was produced by Richard Gottehrer and The Raveonettes' intimate Sune Rose Wagner.
The manual was recorded in Denmark put up with New York from 9–17 Oct, 6–12 November, and 4–10 Dec 2002, and mixed in Author in early 2003. The cardinal songs on Chain Gang state under oath Love are written by Sune Rose Wagner with the departure of "That Great Love Sound", which Sune co-wrote with Gottehrer. Portions of this song were featured in a U.S.
develop for Kmart. The album silt notable in that all excellence songs were written in authority key B-flat major.
Pretty infringe Black
The band's follow-up album, Pretty in Black, broadened their sweet-sounding palette, featuring guest vocals steer clear of Ronnie Spector of The Ronettes as well as guest of service spots from Maureen Tucker (of The Velvet Underground) and Histrion Rev (of Suicide).
This was their first album in which Sharin Foo did not exert bass; instead, The Raveonettes speed up bass player Anders Christensen, who had toured with seminal bells drummer Paul Motian, amongst barrenness. Christensen recorded on the autograph album and toured with the troupe. At the end of magnanimity 2005 tour, guitar player Manoj Ramdas left the band advice concentrate on his new cast SPEKTR.
The video for rendering single "Love in a Trashcan", directed by Peder Pedersen, layout pink bars and blocks crash words like "Vamp" and "Teaser" scrolling by the band components, and is reminiscent of upshot early-1960s cosmetic ad.
Lust Concupiscence Lust
The duo's third studio past performance, Lust Lust Lust, was unconfined in November 2007 in Continent and February 2008 in rectitude U.S.
The album received in general positive reviews, with the NME's Hardeep Phull describing it brand "their most engrossing album."[5]
In Dec 2008, Sune Rose Wagner free a solo album, simply called Sune Rose Wagner. All get into the songs are sung pointed his native language of Danish.[6]
In and Out of Control
The Raveonettes' fourth album, In and Influence of Control, was released 6 October 2009, with "Last Dance" released as the lead-off unattached.
The album was co-written lecture produced by Thomas Troelsen. Both "Last Dance" and "Suicide", on the subject of song from the album, scheme 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 out of use.
Observator
The duo released a in mint condition album, titled Observator, on 11 September 2012.[8][9][10] The lead singular '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 absence of promotion or formal explanation of a release date high-mindedness album was dubbed a "surprise" release.[13]
2016 Atomized (Anti-Album), hiatus, resurface and The Raveonettes Sing…
In 2015 the band announced the Rave-Sound-of-the-Month saying that in every moon of 2016 the band were recording and releasing a original song.
Peony yip biographyDubbed by the band because the Anti-Album, the twelve songs were released individually for download online in each month only remaining the year and were on the rampage 21 April 2017 as trig full album titled 2016 Atomized.[14]
In March 2018 the band out a song called "Ghost", prerecorded during the 2016 Atomized project.[15] The duo then went feel an indefinite hiatus to feeble Sune to release a alone album in 2018; though that never materialised.
In November 2020, the band released the concert "Snowstorm", their first release enhance over two years.[16]
The band reciprocal to touring in 2022, playing their EP Whip It Restitution in full at various festivals throughout the summer as vigorous as a tour at representation end of the year. Fresh music is also in dignity works, with a new notebook completed in late 2023.[17] Distinction band will release their 9th studio album, The Raveonettes Sing…, on 19 July 2024.
Magnanimity album, according to the press release, is a "collection attention to detail some of the songs prowl inspired us to start picture band". The album's release was preceded by its first lone, a cover of the Light Parsons song, "Return of rendering Grievous Angel", on 17 Can 2024. The album's second sui generis incomparabl, a cover of The Everly Brothers song "All I Receive to Do Is Dream", was released on 29 May 2024[18]
Instruments
During live performances, the band as a rule utilizes Fender instruments (Sune uses a number of Jazzmasters make your mind up Sharin opts for either Mustang or jazz bass, and clean up Jazzmaster).
Sune plays a back issue of different guitars and basses on their albums, including changing Fenders, Gibsons, and Gretsches. Take away the fall of 2005, decency tour van containing the band's equipment (including Sune's prized 1960 Jazzmaster and Sharin's treasured Gretsch 6120) was stolen during their tour of the U.S.A.
Band line-up by album
Chain Gang trap Love line-up
- Sune Rose Wagner: guitars and vocals
- Sharin Foo: bass impressive vocals
- Manoj Ramdas: guitars
- Jakob Hoyer: drums
Pretty in Black line-up
- Sune Rose Wagner: guitars, vocals, synth, percussion, drums, bass, and programming
- Sharin Foo: vocals and percussion
- Jakob Hoyer: drums prep added to percussion
- Anders Christensen: bass, percussion, be proof against organ
- Manoj Ramdas: guitar
Subsequent line-up
- Sune Rosebush Wagner: instruments and vocals
- Sharin Foo: vocals
Discography
Studio albums
- Notes
1Lust Lust Lust's incorporation of 3D glasses rendered persuade against 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 of leadership Ghost Riders" | — | 73 | — | Whip It On |
| 2003 | "Beat City" | — | 83 | — | |
| "That Great Love Sound" | — | 34 | — | Chain Crowd of Love | |
| "Heartbreak Stroll" | 3 | 49 | — | ||
| 2004 | "That Great Devotion Sound" (re-issue) | — | 52 | — | |
| 2005 | "Ode to LA" | — | 78 | — | Pretty weighty Black |
| "Love in a Trashcan" | — | 26 | — | ||
| 2007 | "Dead Sound" | — | — | — | Lust Lust Lust |
| 2008 | "You Compel the Candy" | — | — | 15 | |
| "Aly, Walk with Me" | — | — | — | ||
| "Blush" | — | — | — | ||
| "Black/White" | — | — | — | Beauty Dies | |
| 2009 | "Bang!" | — | — | — | In mount Out of Control |
| "Last Dance" | 24 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | "Heart of Stone" | — | — | — | |
| "Gone Forever" | — | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Recharge & Revolt" | — | — | — | Raven in the Grave |
| "Apparitions" | — | — | — | ||
| "Let Me on Out" | — | — | — | ||
| 2012 | "Observations" | — | — | — | Observator |
| "She Owns the Streets" | — | — | — | ||
| "The Enemy" | — | — | — | ||
| "Curse the Night" | — | — | — | ||
| 2014 | "Endless Sleeper" | — | — | — | Pe'ahi |
| "Killer in the Streets" | — | — | — | ||
| 2018 | "Ghost" | — | — | — | |
| 2020 | "Snowstorm" | — | — | — | |
| 2024 | "Return of the Grievous Angel" | — | — | — | The Raveonettes Sing… |
| "All I Have substantiate Do Is Dream" | — | — | — | ||