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Zeigeist

17 June 2006 :: posted by Rchrd Oh?! :: add to favs

Zeigeist is yet another brilliant act from Sweden. If you thought the whole electroclash performance art act was dead, you are wrong. I in fact have been craving more of that and seeing Fischerspooner on tour last time was an incredible disappointment due to low energy and lack of innovative costumes and theatrics. Zeigeist bring art back into the music. Their sound is easily compared to The Knife and Queen of Japan. I could easily see these guys being played all over the radio and clubs, and I am sure will be uploaded to Ipods everywhere.
Zeigeist is not only a band but an art collective. The band includes the usual band members plus costume designers, set designers, and more designers, and more designers. We couldn’t be more excited and anxious to see this band live.
Here is a song off of their future full length album, that is in the works. Oh and before you leave your comments, the Kate Bush influence is supposed to be obvious on this track.

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Zeigeist- “Tar Heart” (mp3)

14 Comments:

this is “f as in knife” by the knife. haha. i was curious about this.
but it was a nice surprise. but its tagged as zeigeist soo hmmmmm.

mondster
June 17th, 2006 at 11.02 pm

No, it is Zeigeist. All explained here: http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=6650203

anticonformiste
June 17th, 2006 at 11.20 pm

Anticonformiste is right. Someone put that up on a fake Knife MySpace page. It is really Zeitgeist. But it sounds a lot like Karin Andersson’s voice.

Anonymous
June 18th, 2006 at 12.10 am

I’ve heard a buzz for some time now, good to finally hear them. It seems a lot of those bands that have been around for ages in Sweden with this sound are popularised now. The Knife, Revlon9, Fox’n'wolf, Emmon etc. Even the tough alliance and lo-fi-fnk one might argue..

Daniel
June 18th, 2006 at 7.19 pm

very sweet sound and a trashy fashion style.

Matthias
June 19th, 2006 at 10.25 am

dude. wtf.

mondster
June 19th, 2006 at 1.26 pm

I find it so strange that this ISN’T Karin Dreijer.

the_joe_john
June 20th, 2006 at 6.32 pm

Zeigeist is correct. Below a link to where you can see some pics and a video from a show in Stockholm earlier this spring. They’re brilliant live. Wish more folks could learn to appreciate them though.

http://brian.se/gallery/2006/digfi_mix/

Brian
June 26th, 2006 at 11.08 am

yeah.. it sounds fine… but… ehh… it’s such a copy of a copy. Even the glossy design and packaging is such a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. I’m not saying its bad, but Zeigeist is all about trying way to hard. Why?