Hit The Waves (Labrador) is the new album from the Mary Onettes. It’s the long-awaited third full-length from the Gothenburg, Sweden, quartet, and it largely abandons the soaring pop that was the band’s hallmark on its 2007 self-titled debut and 2009’s Islands. Those albums earned the quartet comparisons to the Cure and Echo & The Bunnymen, although polished with a modern synth-pop sheen. Hit The Waves draws likewise from the ’80s, but instead of tuneful post-punk, it deliberately echoes some less trendy sources. The Mary Onettes—brothers Philip and Henrik Ekström, Petter Agurén and Simon Fransson—will be guest editing magnet magazine.co all week. Read our brand new feature on them.
Simon Fransson: I like to play Ludwig drums. There is a certain sound and a special feeling to bang those drums. I have two older Ludwig kits. The first is a white marine pearl from ’67, and the other is a clear Vistalite from the ’70s that I bought recently. I bought the white set in Stockholm several years ago; the store says it was shipped over from Chicago and that it was used in the legendary Polar Studios in Stockholm.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSu_aQTn-88
