Lunik

[Skybird]

I'm just curious how popular this band from Switzerland (singing in English) is, and what people think.

I saw them yesterday night, by random chance on TV, the AVRO concert in Basel, the second half. I jumped into "Preparing to leave" and was immediately hooked. It remined me very much of Dido, whose concert at Brixton academy is ony of my all time favourite CDs/DVDs. Ii liked their style of music, and also the unexcited, calm way in which they perfomred without any silly hopping around and fancy stuff. the follwoing songs also had something that kept me swinging, and following the show until the end.

they led me to a first in my life, I never was into music online shopping before, but now checked their five albums out. I found that the first three albums were very different in style and much of the technical performing a bit premature, compared to the latter two, which also are more supported by sometimes voluminous and almost "orchestral" sound. Obviously they were growing from album to album, it seems. I collected 11 songs from three of their albums, finally. Makes a nice "Best of" CD over here.

[joea]

Oh yea I like them, of course they get a fair amount of on-air rotation on the radio and on the local video TV channel: http://www.tvm3.tv/

I didn't know they were Swiss at first.

[Skybird]

They seem to be the first Swiss band since YELLO that is on the way to comparable international recognition and fame. they also have changed their style quite obviously over the past 8 years. In the beginning it was rated as TripHop, says Wikipedia (don't know all these labels myself, there are too many nowadays), and now are more Pop-ish, which does not serve their music bad, I think.

I would like to see them gaining more stability in their quality, though, their songs are of wide-ranging quality currently. For every hit you listen too, there is a low. that ratio they still need to tune more towards the positive. The beautiful voice of their frontgirl (who obviously knows how to handle it, technically),and their sense of musicality and melody are their two greatest ressources to build on.

I noted that two of the songs I picked are almost pure Jazz. the concert I saw on TV also showed an explicit strength of theirs when performing live.