Teleman - Dusseldorf

1.    Who are these chaps?

Teleman are an indie pop band from London, England. Started in 2012 they have two long players. Dusseldorf (Feb’16) is the second single from Teleman’s second long player Brilliant Sanity (April’16).
 

2. What have they got?

Dusseldorf is mellow indie pop rocker and a mite melancholy. Keyboards trade with guitar noodles and straight up riffs and it all winds up to a satisfying all in finale.

 

3. Who do Teleman sound like?

The vocals are similar to Martin Phillips of The Chills. Paste Magazine compared Teleman generally to Django Django, Supergrass and Belle and Sebastian.

4. What’s the word from the fourth estate?

“Brutalist pop feel” – Clash Music.

“Krautrock-esque” – Under The Radar.

“A brash assault of synth and guitars” – No More Work Horse.

 

 

5. Which bands have shaped Teleman’s sound?

The main Teleman influences are Roxy Music, Talking Heads, New Order, Kraftwerk and Franco Battiato.

6. Why should I press play on Dusseldorf?

You'd have to be some kind of special lazy not to. Post-punk. Melodic. Some people like that sort of thing. Guitars hold their own but. Even a proper lead break. OK proper is a stretch. Dusseldorf is really nice.


7. Do Teleman have any more nice songs?

Probably.


8. Any more words?

Brilliant Sanity is produced by Dan Carey who has worked for Hot Chip, Franz Ferdiand, Lily Allen, Bloc Party, Django Django and many more.

Teleman are supporting Belle and Sebastian at the Royal Hall in London (June 22^nd).

Dusseldorf was judiciously selected by Jonathan Hunt for his Indie Rock Playlist, (March'16).

“All alone on the carousal spinning away”

The Chills are an iconic indie pop band from Dunedin, New Zealand. They started in 1980 on the Flying Nun label and are still going strong. The Chills have five long players on their roll of honor. The band were poised for success in 1990 when their second album Submarine Bells hit number one on the back of the accurately named single Heavenly Pop Hit and the national tour to support the album ended in a triumphant hometown Town Hall concert. I was there. Pitchfork said Heavenly Pop Hit is “music so wonderful it’s no wonder no radio station dared touch it, it would have made nearly everything else sound bad by comparison.” Yeah the title was ironic which made it so special.

 

“Once we were damned now I guess we are angels”