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Powerful, pulsating angst-rock which evokes both Stooges lggy and Bowie lggy, but also shudders with shadows of Leonard Cohen, Tindersticks and good goth. This Norwegian band's third (but first UK) album, recorded in Berlin with producer Head, is yet its own master, its own slave to doomed love. Sivert Hoyem can croon romantically (the single, "Majesty", is velveteen) or snarl bitterly, and the band surge like cheetahs (the aggressive "Lucy One") or slide like a bassline-bejewelled submarine (as on the addictive "Hands Up—I Love You"). Madrugada is the Spanish for "the hour before dawn"—which is around the time when, if you're on the appropriate roll of psychic starvation and physical excess, they sound like one thrilling, compelling rock band. Munch on this.

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Olivar Storoe
Norway
 
Kick ass

Madrugadas deep, depressive and desperate, but at the same time happy, out-turned and dancefloor music is asthonising, awesome and genious based on inspiration sources as i.e. The Stooges, Gun Club, Velvet Underground and the nuggets from the garage rock/psych. scene from the sixties and seventies.

Their debut LP Industrial Silence (1999), the follow up The Nightly Disease (2001) and this Grit (2002) album has established the band as the best norwegian rock´n roll band live on stage and on albums. They are a monster that kick ass and blow other bands off stage even before they have the chance to plugg in.

Majesty is the loveboat (even loverboy Robbie Williams announced this song as the best song ever before his concert in Oslo), Blood Shot Adult Commitment makes you wanna piss on everything real, Lucy One is the excuse to stay up late, Hands Up - I Love You gives you the smooth operator alibi.

Their new LP, The Deep End, is releasing 28th of February and will bring the band on the raised floor. Just step into this room and dance for me.

You now what you have to do!

Herman Eek