The 11 songs that comprise Thirdimension's new album Permanent Holiday (street date 10/19) are of a shimmering, melodic, and willfully grandiose stripe of classic rock-n-roll. Mellifluous orchestral maneuvers, swaggering proto-pop, nimble prog fancy, and Volvonic garage rock. Grounded in neo-psychedelia but evoking much more, Thirdimension translate traditional late sixties British Invasion artists like The Who, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, and The Small Faces, for a not so brave new world. Like their debut Permanent Holiday was recorded and produced by Thirdimension and Christoffer Lundquist at The Aerosol Grey Machine. The album features a special transatlantic-vocal gueststar spot by Caroline Schultz (vocalist for Hidden Agenda labelmates Folksongs For The Afterlife) on "The Only Healer", a spine-tingling duet.
Dimensional Hi-Fi: As far as songwriting and lyrics go, vocalist BJORN STEGMANN is The Man. Stegmann's also been known to engage in programming when the need arises for some futurismo. MARKUS SLIVKA is the guitar-pyrotechnician and multi-instrumental dimensioneer, adding keys, pianos and whatnot to Permanent Holiday, as well as composer for the band art/image. MARTIN ROSENGREN, the fairly new bassist, and the other Bjorn, drummer BJORN WICKENBERG are Thirdimension's backbone, rhythm section extraordinaire. Both, along with Slivka, contribute big bold background-vocals. Not that they tend to go all Beach Boys on you, but the harmonies, from subliminal to grandiose, are a trademark of the band.
Reviews for Thirdimension's debut:
ENTERTAINMENT_WEEKLY: "The foursome's sound may point to fellow countrymen the Soundtrack of Our Lives, but Thirdimension have a hard-to-miss, era-spanning U.K. influence, with nods to melody-minded '60s stalwarts like the Kinks and modern Brit-Poppers Blur and Oasis."
BOSTON_GLOBE: "The album mines and updates classic '60s pop references and swings easily from dynamic guitar blasts to moody introspection"
HIGH_BIAS: "It's hard to imagine that Protect Us From What We Want is a debut record; it sounds too confident and assured to be a beginning, and it makes one yearn to hear how Thirdimension has progressed."
UNDER_THE_RADAR: "Sweden will continue to export quality bands, but it's unlikely any of them will produce such a genre-crossing, well-crafted debut."
POP_MATTERS: "Colossal, towering pop songs-the kind with violins and cellos…the sorts of impossibly grand song constructions that went of fashion in the late '60s."
SKYSCRAPER: “Are the best Brit bands not British any more? Thirdimension mine the spectrum of possibilities, updating Nuggets-style psych and the quirky pop of the Television Personalities or Soft Boys for the new century”
EXCLAIM: “Thirdimension channel the classic rock spirits of the Who and the Beatles to make a timeless record… by opening up to their influences Thirdimension have made a masterful debut album.”
More information, sound samples, etc:
http://www.parasol.com/labels/hiddenagenda/aha069.asp
www.press.thirdimension.nu
