05 Mar 2012 — Tonje Thilesen
Unless you have been living in a cave lately, you probably know that the Norwegian pop outfit
Team Me have had a major break-through shortly after their debut album
To The Treetops! last year. Not that the presence of
Uno Møller as a member of Team Me is so important anyway; the sounds are after all quite different from one another. Maybe is it the earlier Team Me that strikes me when listening through Uno Møller's second album
Silent Riots (following the gorgeous
Songs From My Beautiful Colourball back in 2010) — that sort of hidden melancholy Team Me's original founder Marius Hagen introduced us to in the first place, before turning into a quirky pop orchestra of six, including Uno on bass.
Compared to so-called singer/songwriters who have a tendency to strip down their music into the minimalistic, over-used "classical guitar and vocals" (and which also tends to sound incredibly boring), Uno Møller's composing and writing is, in my opinion, strong enough to keep your interest through
Silent Riot's 44-minute spin. He also invited Oslo's own electronica goddess
Lucy Swann on the single track "Riots", which you can find in the stream below.
Silent Riots is out today via
Lazy Acre Records, and can be ordered via their
website.
