Just a lil’ update from the Tetris camp. First of all thanks to everyone who have streamed, downloaded, spotified, ituned or purchased the new EP (or torrented the shit out of it, who knows), we really appreciate it!
We had a great party to celebrate the release – more people than we could’ve hoped for showed up, and Jesper Lundager did an awesome job warming up the crowd with his sweet and innocent, yet strangely seductive, dreampop stylings. We are currently shanghaiing him into tracking our next record this summer, so wish us luck with that…

We did an interview with the site Nordic Spotlight a few weeks back, which you should check out if you’re really into didgeridoos and learning new things about our band.
In other great news “Blast Off” has been featured on the legendary Carsten Holm’s radio show ‘Offbeat’ on Danish public radio P6 the last few days! If you’re listening, look out for that – we are beyond psyched about it!

In gigging news: We have a few burgeoning tour plans for the fall months… it’s all coming together… until then people in Århus can catch us at a fundraiser in support of building a new school for children with little or no access to education in Nepal. Check out http://www.learningplanet.org.uk/ for more info on the charity. The event will go down on June 1st at V58.
We will also be playing at the Great Dictators release party for the forthcoming “Horrorscopes” EP in Copenhagen – we had a sneak pre-listen of the EP and it is fucking amazing – just you wait, these guys will alter the course of the proud ship that is folk rock! Date and location TBA, somewhere around June 11.

Until next time, keep it crispy!
- Kasper

It is with gratitude, pride, relief and most of all great excitement that we can say the ‘Temperance’ EP is out right now!

We sincerely hope you enjoy it, and really hope you will take a few minutes out of your busy schedule (we know, livin’s hard in twenty twelve) to put it on your stereo. Or to put on some good headphones and really turn the volume up – it is kind of a headphone EP in a way we think. Works for bus/train commutes as well. In a pinch as supermarket muzak. But not really.

You can get both the CD and a digital download (with all proceeds going to our struggling band instead of some slimy middle man) at Bandcamp. The EP is also available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon etc… basically all your favorite mp3 parlors!

Streams of the entire thing are available for free at both Bandcamp (with bonus track) and Soundcloud.

Again, we hope you’ll like it. See you soon!

Sincerely,
Jeppe, Rune & Kasper

We won’t draw this one out… It is with great pride that we can now give you the music video for ‘Blast Off’, the first cut off our new EP:

The video was shot, directed and edited by the wonderful Villads Spangsberg who we owe more than we would care to admit. He really did a huge amount of work on this, including driving around with our smelly selves for the better part of a weekend. Thanks also goes out to Nicolai, Tim and Adam for helping us out with a lot of more or less shitty tasks. You guys are the best!

The Temperance EP will be available in most nooks and crannies of the internet on Monday the 23rd, and we are beyond excited to get that one out there. We hope you will like it, we think it’s rather good ourselves. A limited edition of cds will be available from Bandcamp and at our shows.

For anyone who might be in Copenhagen tomorrow, please consider stopping by Huset i Magstræde and celebrating the new EP with us – you will be able to buy a copy before everyone else and/or drink tequila shots with our stupendously attractive drummer. Sweet deal.
Doors at 20:00 – music from 21:00 and onwards.
Admission at the door: 20 kr.

Love,
Rune, Kasper and Jeppe

Tetris = Therapy are alive and in April we will be releasing a new EP. It consists of four songs. Songs about the places we used to live, the places we now live, the people we surround ourselves with and the restraint and the attention it takes to drag oneself through the abundances of modern life. They are an attempt at a sort of calm, forwardlooking optimism. But mostly its just four songs we are extremely proud of and are dying to share with you.

Here’s the cover and the tracklist:

The Temperance EP

Tracklist:

1. Blast Off
2. University Girls
3. Home on the Range
4. Unconventional Copenhagen

Bonus:
5. Seasick (Jesper Lundager Remix)

We have been recording and mixing the record ourselves since late last summer. The tracks were finally mastered by Steve Fallone (TV on the Radio, The Strokes, Grizzly Bear) a few weeks ago. Some of the songs are well over a year old, so for them to finally reach a destination was very good for our sanity. We are truly proud of it.
The cover was designed by the wonderful Cecilie Hundevad Meng Sørensen (who also did the artwork for ‘Acquaintances’). She is the best. You should check out part one of her collaborative book of prints and sounds with Emil Keller Skousen entitled The Book of Meaning. Or this, if you can.

The EP will be available via all major digital music retailers and streaming sites as well as on CD and digital download via Bandcamp on 23/04. Go there now for a free download of our good friend Jesper Lundager‘s awesome, druggy, shoegazy remix of ‘Seasick’ off Acquaintances. He delivered it a while ago and we have just been sitting on it and we feel bad, so here it is! Consider it an advance bonus track for the EP:
Download ‘Seasick (Jesper Lundager Remix)’

Jesper released a great album this fall, and if you like the remix you will surely fall in love with “Dyeing Lillies Brighter Colours“.

In other news we shot a video for the first single off the EP ‘Blast Off’ this past weekend with our good friend Villads Spangsberg (who also helped us make this). It will be hitting the world wide interwebs a few weeks before the EP does, so look out for that. We are really excited about it.

And last but not least we’re playing our first show in a very long time on the 5th of April at KB18 in Copenhagen. The line-up consists of Norway’s Samuel Jackson Five, England’s Petrels and Teach Me Tiger, as well as Geiger, Lappland Blog, Malthe Fischer (Oh No Ono) and Thomas Fagerlund (The Kissaway Trail) on the decks. If we might say so ourselves, that is one hell of a night out on the town. Don’t be shy, come out and say hi! RSVP here: Facebook Event

That is it for now. We are really looking forward to sharing some new music with everyone and getting out of our hiding places and into the rock n’ roll ether again. We’ll see you out there!

- Kasper, Rune & Jeppe

Just a quick note to let you know that we are going into an actual studio to do some actual recording of a handful of songs today! We are naturally very excited about this, as its been awhile.
We’ve got 8 days in this small place near where Rune lives – the studio is cheap, rundown, kind of smells weird, the console has numerous buttons covered in tape reading “DON’T TOUCH” and when you’re mixing in the control room you can kind of faintly hear the muffled sound of death metal bands rehearsing vigorously nearby… but did we mention that it is cheap? We will be able to make actual, fleshed-out multitrack recordings! That means more than two mics on the drums folks! Amazing! Can’t wait to get started… it’ll just be the three of us so we will have to take turns acting the part of this guy:

Just makin' records fool

Fierce. We will try and keep you posted as the process moves along, with pictures, videos and whatnot…. UPDATE: Pictures etc. can be found on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/tetristherapy

Sincerely,
Kasper, Rune and Jeppe

So everything here is gorgeous right now. It is summer in Copenhagen and everything has bloomed up, the canals are glistening and all the girls have shed their winter hides and removed themselves from their books and are now toting sunglasses, popsicles, summer-dresses and bottles of wine – they all have that look in their eye like this is their season, it is now or never. Even the summer showers painting the streets at night in a damp film-noir’ish sheen (too much?) somehow manages to create the illusion that when autumn comes hailing down on us next, it maybe won’t be so bad. That might be why summer right now feels kind of inspiring and also kind of intimidating to me… it came out of nowhere and it feels like it might go away just as quickly as it came. Well, I will try and enjoy it, honest… you can check back in a month or two to see if i have failed to enjoy myself and as a consequence formed a black metal band (“Abolished Highlander” will be its name until i sell out)…

Just wanted to let you know that we are going into hibernation this July. We won’t come out until we have a recorded piece of work that we think people (such as your fine self) would actually be interested in hearing, taking in and living with in some capacity. That is really all we want to do right now, and we want to make sure we do that right. Frankly it is about time… time we do something new. Hopefully something that can spark a pleasant tickling sensation of startling surprise and amiable familiarity all at the same time….  If you live in Copenhagen you can catch fragments of what that may or may not entail this friday (which has become tomorrow as i am writing this) – more about that in our native tongue:

Lige en påmindelse om at vi spiller på Rust i København på fredag med Akiri, Naderi og The Minor Collective. Dørene åbner kl. 20.00 og første band går på 20.30 så kom tidligt! Det koster 60 kr. i døren men så får du også adgang til Rust på en drønhed friday night out med fire bands på plakaten og masterfaderen solidt plantet i det røde felt. Som sagt så bliver det vores sidste koncert i hovedstaden i et stykke tid da vi gerne vil have noget nyt at tage med inden vi vender tilbage, og derfor skal den heller ikke have for lidt. Her er eventet på Facebook.
Vi glæder os meget til at spille og håber på at se så mange som overhovedet muligt! Sidst vi spillede på Rust gik headlineren videre til at vinde det danske melodi grand prix så ALT kan tydeligvis ske… ALT…

Kyzzz/Sincerely,
Kasper

So, here’s some news other than the usual gigging reports (although that is also important, like the fact that we are playing this friday in copenhagen, anyway, there’s more on that for the danes down the page).

Our song ‘A Lack of Concentration‘ off Acquaintances was recently featured in this short viral video for the Danish Red Cross Youth. It is basically a reminder of the importance of sharing your problems, thoughts or whatever it is that might be weighing you down with someone. The message is pretty universal and might be obvious to some of you, but i think it is important to be reminded of how crucial something simple like talking to someone else can be once in a while. They have a handy website that deals with all that. Our good friends over at Stik I Rend Film put the film together, and we are very grateful to be able to soundtrack a good cause and a great idea:

Check it out! Oh and by the way, should there be any doubt at all, that last entry posted on here was nothing other than the worst april’s fools joke ever. Oh brother, that should have come with one of those :-S smileys amirite? Well, just to be clear, neither of us have ever worked in toll booths, we can’t afford Valrhona chocolate and we have no stance on the appropriate amount of time spent by women in kitchens whatsoever. But we do however have a couple of songs that we fully intend to record somewhere in the not so distant future. Our good friend Jesper Lundager also just delivered his remix of ‘Seasick’ which we are really excited about. More on that later…

For the danes:

Husk at vi spiller på fredag på Studenterhuset i København med Pink Marines og KnivFisk! Dørene åbner kl. 21.00, der er koncertstart kl. 22.00 og entréen koster 50 kr. (30 kr. for medlemmer) -[Studenterhusets hjemmeside - Facebook RSVP]

Vi håber på at se så mange som muligt!

Sincerely,

Kasper

Spring ’tis the season for change and seeing as its been almost a year since we released Acquaintances, we feel like its time to do something new. Something good:

So, mark your calenders, because on May 23rd we’re finally ready to unveil our next release which will be named “The Loneliness of Manning a Toll Booth (On An Extremely Racist Highway) EP” – Other than the autobiographical title track, the new EP will feature three more new songs, a cover of Rebecca Black’s “Friday” and a live recording from Jelling Musikfestival of the infamous performance of “Seasick” where a drunk swedish couple celebrated their honeymoon by storming the stage and creating a pair of (healthy and beautiful we hear) twins on Rune’s amp.

More than anything we are super excited to confirm that renowned danish singer, songwriter, performer, artist and designer of posters and beer cans Kasper Eistrup will do the cover art! He’s a great hero of ours so we are beyond ecstatic about this. As of now this is all we’ve got, but we are told that he is working on something great:

Apparently the cover art is coming soon - There will be cover art though!

The EP, which will be out May 23rd, will be the first compact disc ever to be packaged entirely in luscious dark Valrhona Manjari chocolate (which unfortunately is prone to melting in your hands which is why it should be kept in the refrigerator at all times). It will be available in the fridge next to the Kinder Pingui bars in danish supermarket chains Føtex and Irma EXCLUSIVELY. This is the tracklist…

Tracklist:

1. Whispers from the Kitchen (Girl, Where You Belong)
2. The Loneliness of Manning a Toll Booth (On An Extremely Racist Highway)
3. Friday
4. She Made Me So Queasy
5. “Seasick” Live At Jelling Musikfestival 2010 (Conception Mix)

Teaser tracks will be available soon! We can’t wait for you guys to hear it.

Sincerely,
Jeppe, Kasper and Rune – Tetris = Therapy

Hej allesammen!
Foråret er nået til København og de seneste par dage har de træge gamle cykelture gennem byen været som at opdage byen på ny… det varer tilsyneladende ikke for evigt så nyd det mens du kan (… før det forsvinder, for at vende tilbage igen, for at forsvinde… og så er det vel sommer?)

Her bare lige en reminder om at vi spiller i Bygningen i Vejle på fredag med Flod, så er du i nærheden ville vi som altid sætte stor pris på at du kiggede forbi. Der kommer til at være nyt materiale på setlisten, gæster på scenen og højt humør! Vi glæder os rigtigt meget til at spille: Det koster 100 kr. i døren og dørene åbner kl. 20 – Her er koncertens Facebook Eventside.

Udover det kan man fange os på Studenterhuset, København d. 15 April med Pink Marines og Knivfisk.

Ellers kan man som altid fange os på Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Youtube og streame vores musik og købe vores smukke album ‘Acquaintances’ på CD og download på Bandcamp.

Kærlige T=T hilsner,
- Kasper

The last couple of gigs have been great, we have been able to play varied sets to varied audiences and generally we feel like we have been lucky to be able to just test out new stuff and different setups. Certain new songs really work… i can tell you this much, we are getting a better feeling of where we can take this thing with every gig. The shows have been pretty high energy, fun affairs too. If you don’t believe us check out this outrageous picture of Kasper, just brimming with enthusiasm and raw, ecstatic, sweaty energy, from our last gig at Catching Paper Planes presents in Copenhagen:

Notice the tilting keyboard stand, slowly threatening to abruptly end the concert in a hot mess of cables and destruction! SO EXCITING THAT WAS!

Man! Not sure how the audience refrained from storming the stage and joining the dance party, but what do i know… Luckily there are two opportunties to do so on the table atm, if you should be so inclined: One for the jutlanders and one for the big city dawgs:

On March 25th we will return to Bygningen Vejle, the venue where we played our very first gig, right in the middle of the neck of the woods where we all grew up! The excellent post-rock band Flod will join us and we hear that another band is TBA. We are very excited about this and hope to see many familiar, as well as new faces on the evening. Tickets (80 in presale, 1oo at the door) will be available here and of course at the door. The doors open at 20:00!

On April 15th we will play a show with Pink Marines and KnivFisk at Studenterhuset. This should be a pretty high energy show considering the lineup. Tickets are 50 kr. at the door and the show starts at 21 hours!

Hope to see you out there, and if you do show up please come and say hello!

T=T love,
- Kasper