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Here's something that we've been after at Shifty Disco for a little while now and it's great to get the opportunity to introduce to the delights of Danish 6-peice, Superheroes.
They are set to make their UK debut on October 25th with the CD release of ‘Behind Our Masks We Are Perfectly Ordinary People’ on the Sidewinder Sounds label.
Back home, they’re signed to Crunchy Frog (alongside Junior Senior and The Ravonettes) and have been releasing albums and winning major awards for six years. Even so, the band are all still in their early twenties. ‘Behind Our Masks…’ features tracks from all 3 of their albums, ‘Dancing Casanova’, ‘Igloo’ and ‘Superheroes’, and showcases their irresistibly quirky pop songs.
The band started when singer/songwriter Thomas Troelson and guitarist Asger Tarpgaard met at school in a village just outside northern Danish town Skive. They even pressed up their first demo CD before Thomas’ voice had broken!
Since then, they’ve toured the US, Japan, France and The Netherlands and supported Beck in Stockholm at his personal invitation. Thomas also produced Junior Senior’s 2003 album ‘D-D-Don’t Stop The Beat’ and sang the unstoppable chorus on hit single ‘Move Your Feet.’ Junior and Senior return the favour with guest appearances on the album.
Surprisingly, given the band’s effortless onstage charisma and enigmatic appearance, they are a sweetly unassuming bunch who say ‘We are trying to focus on the music and not all the glamour that surrounds it… we don't find ourselves that interesting.’
You'll be able to see them live at Blow Up @ The Metro Club on Oxford Street on Thursday October 21st.
www.superheroes.dk
www.cherryred.co.uk
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