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CMU Approved
Approved: Torpedo
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 27 September 2010
One of the highlights of last week’s Reeperbahn Festival was the first band we went and saw. Actually, they weren’t even the band we’d gone to see, but we got confused and ended up in the wrong venue. Lucky for us. Torpedo, from Sweden, mixed repetitive krautrock basslines with upbeat angular indie, and delivered amazingly overblown banter between songs, which included announcing that “our days are numbered” and that their music is the only thing that can save us. Plus, two of them had very impressive moustaches.
The band’s new single, ‘An Invention’, was released last week. Though not in the UK, I don’t think. Still, it’s worth attempting to track it down for the simple reason that it’s produced by Justin Timberlake. The Justin Timberlake. If you find yourself in a situation where you don’t want to know what a krautrock-influenced band produced by Justin Timberlake sounds like, then something has gone wrong with you. Let’s all go and listen to the track on their MySpace now.
