The Exploding Boy
| The Exploding Boy | |
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 The Exploding Boy 2013 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Stockholm , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Post-punk , new wave , indie rock , gothic pop |
| founding | 2006 |
| Current occupation | |
| Johan Sjöblom | |
guitar |
Lars Andersson |
Guitar, vocals |
Stefan Axell |
| Nicklas Isgren | |
| Mattias Svensson | |
| Richard Ankers | |
| former members | |
Drums |
Tord Karlsson |
bass |
Mario Gonzales |
The Exploding Boy is a Swedish band from Stockholm that plays post-punk and new wave , based on the style of the 1980s , but also has indie rock influences.
history
The band was founded in 2006 by Lars Andersson and Johan Sjöblom, who had previously played in different bands. Sjöblom was among other things the bass player for the band Fake Moss in appearance. Both had similar tastes in music and started making music together. With three friends they formed the band The Exploding Boy, named after a song by The Cure . They had their first appearance in May 2006 in Stockholm. In 2007 the self-titled debut album was released.
The band quickly gained international recognition. When the band toured Germany for the first time in autumn 2009 , they had already performed at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen and featured several times in Gothic magazine . In the same year the second album Afterglow was released . The Sonic Seducer called the record "overall a pleasant album that is allowed to rotate longer in the player".
The third album, The Black Album , was also released in the United States on the Vendetta Music label . It received international attention and again received positive reviews. The Sonic Seducer wrote that the band proves that they have a pronounced "feeling for beautiful songs with a pleasant touch of melancholy".
On October 18, 2013, the band's fourth album, Four , was released on Drakkar Entertainment . Ecki Stieg wrote about the album in Orkus magazine that the band had "arrived in a league that should be taken seriously", but the album was sometimes "too smooth and problem-free".
The fifth album Alarms! was released on May 18, 2018.
Side projects
Johan Sjöblom has been running a solo project under his last name since 2016. In October of this year he presented the debut album 6 with Sjöblom . In September 2019 the EP A Victory Of Love was released , the title track of which is a cover version of Alphaville's 1984 song .
Discography
Albums
- The Exploding Boy (2007)
- Afterglow (2009)
- The Black Album (2011)
- Four (2013)
- Alarms! (2018)
Web links
- The Exploding Boy at Discogs (English)
- The Exploding Boy on Facebook
- The Exploding Boy at last.fm
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Häggström: Review ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to The Exploding Boy at musiklandet.se
- ↑ Thomas Thyssen: The Exploding Boy: Live 4 Free in Berlin on 09/10/09 . News on gothic-magazine.de
- ↑ Sarah M. Heinzelmann: Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to Afterglow in the Sonic Seducer
- ↑ Ecki Stieg: Interview with Stefan Axell in Orkus 11/12 2013, p. 102f
- ↑ Thomas Abresche: Review ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to The Black Album in Sonic Seducer
- ↑ Ecki Stieg: Review of Four in Orkus 11/12 2013, pp. 69f
