Med den flotte golden cage-remixen til Fred Falke fortsatt ringende i bakhodet (ok, den har vel strengt tatt ringt i hele 2008 også..) er det gode nyheter at Erlend Øye og hans kumpanjer i The Whitest Boy Alive er tilbake med flunkende nytt materiale. Låta «Island» ligger nå ute på MySpace, så her er det bare å forsyne seg. En gammel mann vi kjenner roper noe i bakgrunnen om et funkband fra Oslo som pleide å stille med naken trommeslager og hjemmetrykte kassetter en gang på nitti-tallet, men det skal du ikke bry deg så mye om. Stemmen til Erlend Øye gjør i hvert fall resten av redaksjonen full av varme smil og falske forhåpninger om vår.
Selv oppsumerer TWBA de siste årene i deres liv slik:
«Dear fans and friends around the world. Since we completed «Dreams» in early 2006 this has happened: – Daniel Nentwig joined the band fulltime on Rhodes and Crumar(an italian synthesizer) – We have played 120 concerts in Europe and Mexico And now, emerging from soundchecks and end-of-concert jams has come 11 songs which make up our second long player «Rules». It started with 2 months in the end of 2007 in nayarit, mexico, at the house of our friend Adrian Meyer Dentzel, where we first helped him building a studio, Glass Cube, while at the same time working on the songarrangements in the living room of the house among geckos and butterflies. Then we spent the last 3 weeks recording it, doing take after take till we felt satisfied. Back home in berlin after christmas, we set up operations in one of the 60 empty radio-studio rooms in the Funkhaus building in east berlin, where recorded again what we werent happy with yet. Through out autumn of 2008 we have mixed the album with norman nietzsche at Villa Qrella like we did with «Dreams» and we are very happy with the results. Island, a song many of you will recognize from our liveshows, will be uploaded to our myspace as an appetizer for the record, that will come out early march. Going on tour in europe in april. see you there?«
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