The New Album By The Sounds...Is It A Kinda Joke 'Boute Blondie? Cuz If It Do's, That's A Very Good One...The Joke I Mean

Virtually everything written about the band over the last three years mentions how this band from the small southern Swedish city of Helsingborg stalks the stage like they think they're the greatest band in the world. "I can't really help myself onstage," singer Maja (pronounced "Mya") Ivarsson says. "We're not really putting on a show this is the way we are always." That attitude has helped bring the band from Helsingborg to the world. The Sounds' 2002 debut, "Living in America" made when the band members were barely out of high school debuted at #4 on the Swedish album charts and earned them several "best newcomer" awards and a Swedish Grammy. In America, the album firmly established the band and as one to watch as they played more than 300 gigs since its release, logging many miles on the Warped Tour as well as with the Foo Fighters and the Strokes. Besides being on every late-night TV show and featured in almost every national US publication, including the New York Times Sunday Magazine, which is startling for any band, let alone one from such a remote place, The Sounds also unexpectedly picked up a star-studded fan base, with Dave Grohl, Pharrell Williams, Quentin Tarantino, Bam Margera and even Britney Spears among the many publicly cosigning for the band.

& This Album Is Probably Just Another Swedish Joke...

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