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Tracklist
01. My Home Is Nowhere Without You
02. Try To Think About Me
03. When The Sun Rose Up This Morning
04. When We Were Still Friends
05. On A Saturday
06. My Baby Is Afraid Of Sharks
07. Lovers Are Waterproof
08. Next Year In Zion
09. Someone Knows Better Than Me
10. My Best Kiss
11. Baby Baby You’re My Baby
12. (Nothing Left But) Poison In The Rain
On the new album Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and intricately constructed pop songs. Next Year In Zion is the Parisian duo’s debut long-player for the City Slang Label. It is the sound of Herman Dune, all grown up.
After years as a highly prolific, mostly DIY band, Herman Dune gained considerable cult status across Europe and in New York City, where the young band lived off and on for nearly 8 years. Releasing 5 official albums and distributing countless homemade CDRs at live shows, they found an early champion in legendary UK Radio DJ John Peel. The archive of Peel Sessions the band performed for the BBC number in the double digits. With their tireless work ethic, ramshackle shows in NYC artist squats eventually gave way to headlining sold out gigs at the 2,500 seat Olympia, in Paris. Tours with Arcade Fire, The Kooks and good friend Kimya Dawson (Moldy Peaches, Juno) put them in front of increasingly larger crowds, and even without a U.S. release to their names, Rolling Stone tagged “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” in their year-end list of the Top 100 Songs of 2007.
Frontman David-Ivar Herman Dune’s facility in bending the English language to his whims is impressive, given that he was raised in Paris but born in Stockholm of Swedish and Jewish descent. He learned American English playing chess with his grandfather, a Swedish diplomat who lived in DC, and began writing simple songs in English at the age of 11. There is sly playfulness and whimsy in David’s lyrical acrobatics (rhyming ‘coconuts’ with ‘cigarette butts’ and ‘Pelican’ with ‘Mexican’) and his phrasing and cadence pay tribute to songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jonathan Richman and Stephen Malkmus. On drums and percussions, Neman Herman Dune (who is Swiss born, but also raised in Paris) provides the steady heartbeat that syncopates David’s words and music. The elegant polyrhythmic thump hints at an affection for Charlie Watts, Can and Mo Tucker, and gives a buoyant foundation for David's chiming guitar. These two play off each other’s strengths with the familiar ease that comes from life-long friendship.-CITY SLANG
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Tracklist
01. My Home Is Nowhere Without You
02. Try To Think About Me
03. When The Sun Rose Up This Morning
04. When We Were Still Friends
05. On A Saturday
06. My Baby Is Afraid Of Sharks
07. Lovers Are Waterproof
08. Next Year In Zion
09. Someone Knows Better Than Me
10. My Best Kiss
11. Baby Baby You’re My Baby
12. (Nothing Left But) Poison In The Rain
On the new album Next Year In Zion, songwriter and vocalist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Neman Herman Dune deliver a dozen charming and intricately constructed pop songs. Next Year In Zion is the Parisian duo’s debut long-player for the City Slang Label. It is the sound of Herman Dune, all grown up.
After years as a highly prolific, mostly DIY band, Herman Dune gained considerable cult status across Europe and in New York City, where the young band lived off and on for nearly 8 years. Releasing 5 official albums and distributing countless homemade CDRs at live shows, they found an early champion in legendary UK Radio DJ John Peel. The archive of Peel Sessions the band performed for the BBC number in the double digits. With their tireless work ethic, ramshackle shows in NYC artist squats eventually gave way to headlining sold out gigs at the 2,500 seat Olympia, in Paris. Tours with Arcade Fire, The Kooks and good friend Kimya Dawson (Moldy Peaches, Juno) put them in front of increasingly larger crowds, and even without a U.S. release to their names, Rolling Stone tagged “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” in their year-end list of the Top 100 Songs of 2007.
Frontman David-Ivar Herman Dune’s facility in bending the English language to his whims is impressive, given that he was raised in Paris but born in Stockholm of Swedish and Jewish descent. He learned American English playing chess with his grandfather, a Swedish diplomat who lived in DC, and began writing simple songs in English at the age of 11. There is sly playfulness and whimsy in David’s lyrical acrobatics (rhyming ‘coconuts’ with ‘cigarette butts’ and ‘Pelican’ with ‘Mexican’) and his phrasing and cadence pay tribute to songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Jonathan Richman and Stephen Malkmus. On drums and percussions, Neman Herman Dune (who is Swiss born, but also raised in Paris) provides the steady heartbeat that syncopates David’s words and music. The elegant polyrhythmic thump hints at an affection for Charlie Watts, Can and Mo Tucker, and gives a buoyant foundation for David's chiming guitar. These two play off each other’s strengths with the familiar ease that comes from life-long friendship.-CITY SLANG
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