Vita Bergen - Replace

 

1.    Who are these fellas?

Vita Bergen are an electronic indie band from Gothenburg, Sweden who formed in 2010. Replace (Jan'16) bubbles off their debut album Disconnection (Oct'15).


2. What do Vita Bergen have on offer?

Replace is a dark atmospheric dance rock tune that casts a glance to days gone by.


3. Who do Vita Bergen sound like?

Tape TV are sure Replace sounds like Mando Daio and a consensus led by Clash Music think Vita Bergen are generally like Arcade Fire.


4. What have the press said about Vita Bergen's music?

“Driving bass and urgent tempo” – The Revue.

“Grandiose soundscapes sometimes closing in on the bombastic” – Meadow Music.

“Large extravagent instrumentation with a driving rhythm section” – Bedroom Disco.

 

5. Who are Vita Bergen’s influences?

Vita Bergen's main influences are Wolf Parade, Bright Eyes, Okkervil River, Arcade Fire, Neil Young, Pink Floyd and Neil Young.


6. Why should I give Replace a listen?

Replace is a new take on an old electronic goth sound and it does it well. Good for a change of pace.


7. Do Vita Bergen have any more great songs?

Curtains is the best thing Vita Bergen have ever done and was one of the very best indie songs of 2014. Absolute, knock me down dead, brilliance.


8. Any more information about Vita Bergen?

Vita Bergen means white mountain but is not a reference to the park in Stockholm. It is a reference to the mountains of Gothenburg and an allusion to their purity.

Vita Bergen drive a big black Chevy that gets three miles to the gallon.

“We replace ourselves, because the past is binary”

 

 

The Mission are a gothic rock band from Leeds, England, who started in 1986 and are still going strong. They have produced eleven albums in their long history. Carved In Sand (1990) is their most popular. The album had a handful of singles but Deliverance is the fucking killer. Go to the one and a half minute mark for the start of the song. Mental live. Goes right off.

“Surrender to the wisom of age and the spirits of time”

 

 

 

The Best Indie Songs of 2015 - Vita Bergen

There’s a symphonic feel to Vita Bergen’s Curtains (Oct’14). It's an epic trip from more than slightly sad to ecstatic. And that's just the opening bars. And the song in it's entirety too is cerebral and passionate and magnificent.They’re definitely a bit of strange on the side and they make it hard to love because they don’t put out easy. Something in the singers voice calls to mind Ian Curtis of Joy Division, not the timbre of voice but because of the searching question without an answer.

That answer is out of reach until it's right fuckin there. Curtains is two full minutes of building, introspective tension before the climatic all in. And three minutes before the joyful bounce. And it is a joy, a sublime, sweet release. An electric indie rock song with variations; massive rewards are here for the patient.

 

 

Vita Begen are a Swedish electronic indie band that have been composing masterpieces for more than three years. They are two friends, two brothers and four more onstage musicians. Curtains comes from their self-titled short player Vita Bergen (Oct’14).

 

Shit you didn’t need to know:

Vita Bergen translates as White Mountain and refers to a park in Stockholm.

Vita Bergen have been compared to Arcade Fire and My Morning Jacket by fucking lazy journos.

Need another movement? Try Run, A Picture of Before or Mirror Blind.



 
Awesome Swedes huh? Just the fuckin excuse I need to give these funny fuckers a listen.

A Swedish garage rock band with no small dose of Americana this is Get A Little Lovin' (1990) off their most successful and accessible album Blue Tomato. And it's glorious.