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CMU Approved
Approved: To All My Friends
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 29 September 2010
Cast your minds back to last week’s CMU Weekly, when I first told you about Torpedo, subsequently the first of our Reeperbahn Festival-related Approveds here in the Daily this week. I described how, when they played the opening night of the Hamburg fest, they did so on a makeshift stage in front of the Molotow bar’s front window, meaning their backdrop was a window full of awe-struck tourists looking in.
Well, on Saturday night Team CMU formed part of that very same backdrop but for another act, when we sat on a bench just outside the packed Molotow bar to watch Swedish folk duo To All My Friends, aka Tove Möller and Frida Fralk, unable to actually get into the venue. It’s kind of weird watching a band from behind, desperately trying not to make eye contact with their audience.
Not a million miles away in sound from fellow Swedes First Aid Kit, this duo released their eponymous debut album last month (it’s available through iTunes in the UK). The standout tracks are those written about animals. ‘Fish’, which they felt worth noting at the show was their first animal-based song of the night, sees the duo wishing they were fish, while ‘Polar Bear’, looks at global warming through the eyes of a polar bear in a manner that can only be described as ‘cute’.
