MOONBABIES

Rock / Pop / Alternative

Malmoe, Sweden

Billboard

Since the early 2000's Moonbabies has released a suite of high-quality albums and ep's and toured extensively with sold-out shows in countries like Germany, Sweden and the USA. Moonbabies have been hyped by both critics and an ever growing following in the USA, not least in Canada, which may not come as a surprise since the band share a similair artistic and musical approach with Canadian acts like The Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene and Stars.

Carina Johansson and Ola Frick enjoy themselves the most, either on stage or being in their studio surrounded by electronics, microphones and cables. They met a late night in Malmö, Sweden, around 10 years ago, and discovered a strikingly similair taste for great pop songs. After a long hot summer of performing their favorite covers, while on an inter-rail busking trip all over Europe, it seemed inevitable to start a band together. Five years later, the bands material started to take shape and find its exclusiveness. Band-members came and left, until Ola and Carina eventually decided to continue as a duo, and in 2001 their debut album 'June and Novas' was released, under the name Moonbabies. The album was proceeded with a monthly long tour in northern USA and some major festival performances in Scandinavia.

Its follow-up, 2004's 'The Orange Billboard' (licensed through Parasol/Hidden Agenda in the U.S.) was a decidedly more pop affair, filled to the weist with razor-sharp classic pop. Moonbabies created their own mini-universe, with a curious hybrid of old´n´new, and succeded to sneak in influences from Kate Bush and E.L.O. as well as hints of the Flaming Lips and My Bloody Valentine. The album met praise in the American and Scandinavian music press, and climbed a month after the release to the 1# position of the charts of Emusic -most downloaded single and album, February 2004 -and also ended up on the top of many writer's and music lovers top ten lists later that year. Through small-time independent labels and distribution the album sold a strong 11 000 copies in Europe, North America and Japan, due to national and college air-play and the word spread through various blogs and internet communities.

Back with a new-found confidence, the band released "War On Sound Mini Album" -an 8-song teaser for the upcoming album - on their own label. The song "War On Sound" was picked out for a key-scene of the ABC TV-series Grey's Anatomy. Alexandra Patsavas, the series Music Supervisor also selected the song to appear on the best-selling "Grey's Anatomy Soundtrack Vol. 2" (Hollywood Records). The band went on to sign to Startracks, on of sweden's finest record labels. Moonbabies 3rd full-length album entitled "Moonbabies at the Ballroom", was released 2007, and was an immediate success among fans and critics. The First single 'War on Sound" (now officially released for the first time in Europe) was accompanied by a delicate award-winning promo video (directed by Eric Althin & Shannon Henegan). The band went on their first headlining tour in Sweden during the spring of 2007, and in October-November the band will return to Germany, Austria and Switzerland for extensive touring. The second single "Take me to the Ballroom" will be relaesed in October 2007, and will once again be accompanied by a promovideo created by Eric Althin & Shannon Henegan. The band is currently writing and recording new material.

Band Website: http://www.moonbabiesmusic.com