'Put you in mind of the best bits of The Divine Comedy, Camera Obscura & British Sea Power... playful but bittersweet... even space for politics and moments of sweeping melancholy that gives this album more depth than the surface might suggest' The List
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The Baltic Sea Appears on Hidden Door (Police Box 13) » A discerning appraisal of Ikea culture, with a loooovely outro. Log in to download tracks |
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You're Not Like Anybody Else Appears on Hidden Door 2 (The Police Box 15) » “The 'favourite audience member' mentioned at the end of the song was actually the infant son of a photographer I was chatting to later that day. It turns out this little dude had the dance moves to put everyone else in the crowd to shame” Frankie Low Log in to download tracks |
About The Social Services The Social Services are two thirds Glaswegian and one third Swedish, so that explains their combined love of nature and cholesterol. Their nomadic lifestyle and frustration with the world around them inspire them to write songs about war, death, consumerism, being an immigrant, storage solutions, potatoes and swimming. They rant without being shouty and they love it when everybody joins in on the sing-a-long choruses.
Here's what some people out there have to say about TSS:
"The best thing I’ve heard all year (...) is the new song by The Social Services called 'Baltic Sea'."
www.swedesplease.net
"Sweetly comic, unexpectedly poignant"
The Skinny (4*)
"The Social Services’ full-length debut is one of the most fun things to happen to pop music in a long time."
Playground magazine
"Somehow they manage to find a golden path between dirty British realism and sugary Swedish pop (...) with sparkling texts and tight melodies."
www.dagensskiva.com
"Rich in wit and vocal harmonies (...) the strength is in the vocals, and The Social Services play to this strength well."
Clash magazine
"Their sound is very melodramatic with hints of drama and melancholy. The songs are very well thought out and come tightly wrapped with some rather fine melodies. There are even hints of the old music halls in how the songs are arranged and sung. Clever stuff."
www.indie-mp3.co.uk
"The Social Services are a promising up-and-coming indiepop band out of Stockholm - cute, not cloying, more bittersweet than sweet and overall, incredibly charming. Another thing I like about them is their outsider status and the way it comes through in their songs."
www.itsatrap.com
"Bland cirkustoner och lekfulla ljud och folkmusikinslag kommer fina melodier och hjärtevärmande tyckatill-texter fram. 'The Baltic Sea' är alldeles, alldeles underbar, 'Seven Dwarves' är inte dum den heller."
Arbetarbladet magazine
"Når under huden med sina politiskt och socialt engagerade texter."
Trots Allt magazine
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