Press release | June 2008
 

"Comeback from the Swedish synthpop heroes on an American record label"

Eleven years after the latest album the Swedish electro pop act Kiethevez is highly topical with their comeback album “Non-binary”. The album will be released on the American independent label A Different Drum in early July. Together with bands as Page, Elegant Machinery, Mobile Homes and S.P.O.C.K, Kiethevez helped to define the sound of the Swedish synthpop movement during the nineties.

The album “Non-binary” contains 11 really strong tracks and the sound has developed towards a more honest, organic and electro-acoustic expression compared to the earlier releases. The melodies, harmonies and the melancholic tone are still typical for the band. Kiethevez has earlier released two full length albums and seven singles, but also participated on several compilation albums all around the world. The biggest interest for the band is to be found outside of Sweden in countries like USA, Germany, Brazil, Russia, Spain and Mexico were many devoted fans have waited a long time for the new material.

-“No Swedish record labels were interested, so we glanced to the west and got positive response immediately on an independent label that released our earlier material in the US under license. The label realizes that we have found something special with the new songs.“

-”After the latest release we didn’t know in which direction to go concerning the concept of expression. After a couple of gigs in USA back in 1999 we began composing some new songs, but shortly we realized that we had reached a dead end. We were in to different projects for a couple of years until we had a talk after a live gig in Gothenburg in 2001 and decided to start working on new material again. After composing a handful of new songs we knew we were heading the right way. In 2003 the work with the new album picked up some speed, but we could not imagine that it would take five years to complete. That it has taken a long time finish it off feels good, we have never been in a rush. The most important thing was to find a whole, a concept – the objective has been that all songs on the album should be really strong, linked together but with individual expression.”

-”Despite the updated and developed sound, the melancholic melodies and the special harmonies that are typical for our song writing are still there. In a way this is a typical Kiethevez album, but we had more songs to choose from for the album, and we had spent more energy on the sound and the production.”

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