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.
Henrik Ekström: The Fender VI bass, originally known as the Fender V, was made from 1961-1975. They are pretty rare nowadays and one day me and my brother found it by chance in a music store in Stockholm. We asked the owner of the shop where you could get one. He said that he had just gotten a Fender IV from 1966, and that he had it under the counter. It was our lucky day. This bass guitar has a very characteristic sound, and has led us to use it on many of our songs.
Video after the jump.
