The Blue Van - Dear Independence

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Free Music Review: Blue Van's Summer of Love
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Dear Independence Poster

If the Danish band's 2005 debut, The Art Of Rolling, pulsed with the reckless abandon of the early Kinks and The Who, DEAR INDEPENDENCE burns with the ragged beauty of Free. In songs like the strummy, mug-raising sing-a-long "Momentarily Sane" and the magnetic, folk-informed melody of "The Poet Tree," DEAR INDEPENDENCE reveals the Blue Van in both a mellow mood, and at a time when it has begun to spread its creative wings.

Splitting time between Denmark, and Brooklyn, NY's gritty Bed-Stuy neighborhood, the quartet cut DEAR INDEPENDENCE with Lenny Kravitz engineer Henry Hirsh producing. The disc was recorded the old-fashioned way--to tape--and without the benefit of digital, fix-it-later software. "We just went for an organic sound," says Christensen. "We wanted a loose studio feeling--no bullshit," says Soren. "We didn't tune the vocals, or cheat. There are a lot of mistakes here and there, but it's perfect to us."

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