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KEEP YOURS EP
Keep Yours is taken from the Hey Trouble album and is a short, sweet and synthy little number about discovering that grass is more or less equally green everywhere. The EP also includes two marvellous remixes. The first one is by Kleerup - the Stockholm madman/whizzkid who wrote and produced Robyn's UK #1 single, With Every Heartbeat, and who with the snap of his fingers manages to turn Keep Yours into italostyle proper trancepop. Kleerup is already on his way of becoming a household name in UK
dancemusic circles but the gem that is the vocal harmonies of Gothenburg duo pacific! will surely follow in his footsteps (pacific! are already, literally, making waves in Tokyo). With their beautiful and quite different take on the same song, they seem to have signed up The Concretes for surf lessons with Dennis Wilson in California. Last but not least is a brand new version of the Hey Trouble's lonesome
marching drum ballad, Souvenirs, which this time returns with a groove almost fit for dancefloors. And speaking of groove, listen carefully and you'll probably figure out why it's referred to as the Dreams Version.
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Oh Boy is the second EP from Hey Trouble. It has three unique b-sides. The Sentence is the newest Concretes song to date, recorded in The Concretes rehearsal space in April 2007. Ed's Kids is just that: Ed Harcourt's version of Kids, with him on piano and backing vocals recorded with Lisa at Ed's house in London and then overdubbed by Daniel, Ludvig, Per and Dante Kinnunen in Stockholm. Justin's Kids is Justin Robertson and Mark Ralph's balearic electro take on Kids.
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Hey Trouble is The Conretes third album. It was recorded in the turbulent times of September 2006, four months after Victoria Bergsman left the band. It's produced by Jari Haapalainen (who produced the first Concretes album) and guests Frida Hyvönen, Kyle Field aka Little Wings and Anna Maria Espinosa appears on the album. It was released in spring 2007. Swedish evening paper Expressen wrote: "I have never heard as much feeling, soul and prescense from The Concretes".
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Kids is the first EP from the Hey Trouble-album. The Concretes have never been more experimental - and nostalgic - than on Kids. The EP has three unique b-sides. Another Day To Waste and Reasons (with Maria on lead vocals) are from the same recording session as the album. Military Madness is a cover of Graham Nash and long time Concrete-favourite.
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On The Radio is the second EP from the In Colour-album and has three rare b-sides only released on this edition. The First TIme i(with Maria and Lisa on lead vocals) is the most stupid garage rock The Concretes has made to date. End Of Mandolins (Maria on lead vocals) is a beautiful ballad and On The Radio (Off The Radio) is a night-time, half tempo version of On The Radio.
The b-sides are produced by Björn Yttling from Peter Bjorn & John.
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In Colour is The Concretes second album and produced by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes) and contains the singles On The Radio and Chosen One along with live-favourite Song For The Songs (which feature all three girls on lead vocals). It includes some of the band's more folky songs like Change In The Weather and Grey Days (Maria on lead vocals), but also som guitar-oriented kraut rock adventures like Fiction. It also features a duet between The Magic Numbers' Romeo, called Your Call. It was relaesed in late march 2006.
