Swedish pop collective I'm From Barcelona's debut album, Let Me Introduce My Friends, released in the US on Mute. Named after Fawlty Towers' Manuel (he's from Barcelona, si?), and formed in Jonkoping, Sweden by Emanuel Lundgren, I'm From Barcelona are 29 (count em!) friends who gathered together and, fuelled with the energy that only a sunny summer holiday can bring, created an album of explosively happy pop songs. Emanuel's flat transformed into a factory where band members embraced a do-it-yourself ethic...   [ read more ]

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TRANSHUMAN REVOLUTION recaptures the sweetness that endeared listeners to Barcelona's debut record "simon BASIC" while showing remarkable growth in the group's songwriting. Songs like "everything makes me think about sex" are clearly more mature than past efforts, but tempered by knowing winks. Frequently labeled "programmer pop" and "geek rock" in the past, Barcelona show less interest in those themes on this record and evade their own cliches with more emotive songs like "fleeting fame", "human simulatio...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. After two years of touring the world, I'm From Barcelona return with Who Killed Harry Houdini?. The album is produced by Emanuel Lundgren and Fabian "Phatfabe" Torsson and the track "Gunhild" features the talented French singer SoKo. The year is 2007, Waiting at Heathrow Airport Emanuel Lundgren wishes that his fear of flying could disappear. He enters a book shop and his eyes fall upon "The Secret Life of Harry Houdini". The book about the famous escapologist makes Emanuel remember his own...   [ read more ]

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