The Legends

The Legends are a Swedish rock band fronted by Johan Angergård, the label boss of Labrador Records. The band was founded in 2003 by him and initially eight fellow musicians, while now only the singer belongs to the solid core of the band. Musically they walked from the Rock ' n ' Roll on Wave through to Euro Dance, but always marked melodic emotional.

History

Up Against the Legends

Johan Angergård is usually busy talented young bands from Sweden to discover and support to produce and manage. Until he drove to his own song ideas to rise even to the stage. So he arranged eight friends and musicians around him, letting his ideas follow songs and performed as the opening act for The Radio Dept. in January 2003. on. Due to the positive response, shortly afterwards The Legends founded and recorded the first album. Up Against the Legends contains twelve songs that were recorded in the minimalist rock-' n'- roll style of the 1960s, but at the same time have modern bonds to Emo and Shoegaze. The instruments for the album played the musical universally savvy front man all a self. For his live band, he established the principle of Adam Green's former band The Moldy Peaches and sought aware newcomers to the respective instruments out, which mainly arose from his circle of friends.

Public Radio

After various disagreements with the other musicians in 2004 from the former nine- man project finally his solo project. So he wrote and played the second album Public Radio completely alone one. Musically it leans against Manchester rave and the typical wave sound of the 1980s and integrated wide -scale synthesizers and subtle, sad beautiful melodies. It has so stylistically more similar to Johan Angergårds actual main band, the Acid House Kings on. The first single He Knows the Sun was promoted in August 2005 to the summer hit in Sweden and rotated in every radio station in the country. For the subsequent tour, which eventually in the context of current and guitar festivals in retro mustache look also took him to Germany in January 2006, he became involved this time four professional musicians from the bands that are drawn in the Labrador label.

Facts and Figures

Already at the Germany concerts in January 2006, the fans were confronted with new songs like Lucky Star. The accompanying album Facts and Figures released in September of this year. Stylistically, it constitutes a further phase of Angergårds historical journey through the musical landscape of his influence donor is ( " Legends" ), which he captures with Ramones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Cure, The Smiths and the Pet Shop Boys explicitly in the accompanying booklet.

Especially latter characterize this ostensibly the sound of the third plant that presents itself musically in the colorful synth and disco garb of the late 1980s. The Labrador Site Label announced the album as a collection of " smash hits for the gay dance floor" at. This was followed in the context of Angergårds Offeree " historical journey" to the rock ' n ' roll of the 1960s to 1970s the debut and the Wave sound of the 1980s by Public Radio logical continuation. In continuation of this series would be expected for the next album Europop 1990.

Discography

  • Up Against the Legends ( album, 2004) Make It All Right (Single, 2003)
  • There and Back Again ( EP, 2003)
  • Call It Ours (EP, 2004)
  • He Knows the Sun ( Single, 2005)
  • Hide Away (Single, 2006)
  • Lucky Star (Single, 2006)
  • Seconds Away ( Single, 2008)

Similar bands

  • The Radio Dept. , The Open, Acid House Kings
  • Stone Roses, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain
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