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The single of the summer? 'Young Folks' out soon...

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 28 comments 13:52 July 26th, 2006
peter bjorn and john

We're not usually ones to get excited about a single release - we've usually more fanciful fish to focus our attentions on - but Swedish outfit Peter, Bjorn and John's 'Young Folks' might just be the most brilliant, immediate-classic seven-inch (and CD!) released this summer.

'Young Folks' is released on the aforementioned formats on August 7 through Wichita, and can be pre-ordered right now here. A remix 12" will also be available.

Why the excitement, though? Well, it's rare that each office-based DiSser agrees on a song's excellence, but this beam of purest aural sunshine ticks all our boxes. Featuring Victoria Bergsman, formerly of The Concretes, 'Young Folks' is memorable dream-pop, replete with skittery drums and lyrics entirely concerned with the universally appealing theme of the here and now - forget tomorrow, 'cause you're here with me, now... et cetera. Plus, it features a whistled melody that the milkman will be repeating 'til the first snow falls upon Britain's green and pleasant lands.

Signed copies of Peter, Bjorn and John's Writer's Block LP are available to pre-order here. We suggest you get the single, then the album, and join us in whistling 'til our lips crust over and splinter apart.

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The Concretes Peter Bjorn and John

not convinced by the tracks I heard

good but not enough...

lyle | 26 Jul '06, 13:55 | X | Reply

lyle, I love you but you're wrong

Well, about this one song anyway

dove_from_above @lyle | 26 Jul '06, 13:56 | X | Reply

Wahay

I like this a lot.

colonol_k | 26 Jul '06, 13:58 | X | Reply

yeah. xfm have been bigging it up

meaning its usually shit, by orson or both of the forementioned. but for once they got it bang on

actually, in all fairness to the dj's they often plug good sotw's, its merely that they have to surround it with 57 piss weak feeder, rhcp and keane tracks

vamos @dove_from_above | 26 Jul '06, 13:59 | X | Reply

is this that song with all the whistling in it

took me ages to appreciate it, now it dominates me like that lady i pay.

benmarwood | 26 Jul '06, 14:05 | X | Reply

Diver

I'm taking your word for it on this - just ordered it even though I haven't heard a note... the Victoria Bergsman involvement kinda swung it too though.

IanJ | 26 Jul '06, 14:08 | X | Reply

i saw them live a few weeks ago

and this single is indeed a slice of summery pop perfection. the rest is a bit meh though.

accidental @IanJ | 26 Jul '06, 14:12 | X | Reply

album's lovely

nice work

Panic @accidental | 26 Jul '06, 14:19 | X | Reply

Cool

I'm looking forward to hearing this shizzle...

Ah, Low tonight... bliss.

IanJ @accidental | 26 Jul '06, 14:31 | X | Reply

This is such a great record

Damian | 26 Jul '06, 14:41 | X | Reply

Fantastic record

The album is great too.

roastthemonaspit | 26 Jul '06, 15:13 | X | Reply

I'm always wrong !

But i love you too !

lyle @dove_from_above | 26 Jul '06, 15:28 | X | Reply

Hmm...

...i wanted to like this what with Victoria Bergmann being involved and also being lovely, but its a bit of a non-event, and the video annoys the hell out of me.

snow_brigade | 26 Jul '06, 15:30 | X | Reply

What is the best...

... summer single of all time though? I would side with Arab Strap's First Big Weekend (which is now 10 years old!!!)

basil | 26 Jul '06, 15:42 | X | Reply

anyone know

where i can hear the single, is on myspace or something

Cheers

backbeat | 26 Jul '06, 15:57 | X | Reply

just tune into 6 music

its on every bloomin 5 minutes

basil @backbeat | 26 Jul '06, 16:04 | X | Reply

will do, cheers

do they have a website or anything? very intrested in here thins

backbeat @basil | 26 Jul '06, 16:15 | X | Reply

cheers

to all

backbeat @sean | 26 Jul '06, 16:40 | X | Reply

'salright

i suppose

staticking | 26 Jul '06, 18:07 | X | Reply

album

You can hear the album at www.3voor12.nl by clicking to LUISTERPAAL then click on OMLAAG til you'll find peter bjorn and john -writers block!
Its a brilliant album btw!!!

Squirtie23 @staticking | 26 Jul '06, 20:56 | X | Reply

this is a cute enough tune

but it's so tediously weedily wet. And such a crap Swedish indie band name. I remember getting bored by The Concretes a year or so ago at Glastonbury, so I now look forward to getting excited by Peter Matthew Bjorn Mark Luke John playing soon and I'll go "they sing that sweet whistling song" and people will stupidly come with me and we'll hang around for 30 minutes and everyone will get bored and Young Folks will come on and I'll leave half way though because I built a half decent song up half far too much and we'll end up watching something really shit like Mystery Jets or similar.

And it's all just shit. Garbage. Have some sense people.

travisb | 27 Jul '06, 00:57 | X | Reply

opinions

may differ from yours, big guy...max chillax T-Dog.

peace and fucking. x

adumcs @travisb | 27 Jul '06, 12:56 | X | Reply

it's nice

but that's it. it's just... 'nice'.
i know it's older, but 'mushaboom' by feist is a much better example of that breezy summery 'vibe'.

fishplums | 27 Jul '06, 16:59 | X | Reply

This album is the bees knees

And its a grower, give it time.

Paris 2004 is like the best pop song ever.

Mikewoods | 28 Jul '06, 16:10 | X | Reply

it's amazing

reading a comment and thinking I saw The Concretes at Glastonbury too then realised I was stood next to Travis B! I'm with MD though. It's the best song of the summer so far, certainly the most infectious. Great whistle and unusually, great beats. Swedes do pop far better than us frankly.

JohnMcCooke @Mikewoods | 3 Aug '06, 02:14 | X | Reply

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