Scandinavia gets all the coolest bands. I don’t mean the good bands, I mean the cool bands. The type of bands that look great and make great music and have great back stories and hair and clothes and friends. The type of bands that I imagine live their lives in black and white and wear sunglasses indoors or in the rain without looking like twats. Some day I will marry somebody from one of these bands and dilute their super cool gene pool but that is a story for a different day.
The (International) Noise Conspiracy are four Swedish communists/socialists/leftists who mix garage rock, soul and punk. The band was formed in 1998 by Lars Stromberg and Dennis Lyxzen. Lyxzen was previously a member of seminal hardcore group Refused. Following Refused’s breakup he set out to form a band which would use its music to convey a more political message and thus The (International) Noise Conspiracy was born.
Armed love was released in 2004 and is the band’s fourth studio album. Produced by Rick Rubin it was their most polished effort to date, tempering the political messages slightly and wrapping them in tunes so catchy that even the staunchest capitalist would be hard set not to dance on the backs of the workers he is keeping down. They even manage to throw in the odd love song. The trick is to forget the politics, the messages, the rhetoric and enjoy it for what it is; a stomping good rock n’ roll album.
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