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Product Identifiers
Record LabelCD Baby, Cdb
UPC0825346143026
eBay Product ID (ePID)20046058703
Product Key Features
Release Year2004
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistCafebar 401
Release TitleCafebar 401
Dimensions
Item Weight0.21 lb
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks11
Number of Discs1
TracksFull-Pro Disco!, Many Left Here Long Before, Senses Working Overtime, Something Worth Dying for, Lost Without You, Troubles, Bob Ross on Drugs, 2 Am, Today, Using Few Words, I Need to Know
NotesBrimming with darkly sweet pop hooks, Cafebar 401 blends Bowie-esque vocal presence with danceable grooves rooted in Euro-rock. Currently setting the Dutch pop scene ablaze, the band has appeared this year on Dutch national television and radio. Their relentlessly contemporary sound calls to mind Coldplay, Masters of Reality, Muse, Beck, Soulwax, Radiohead, and Queens of the Stone Age, but they bring something of their own to the party. Don't miss it. After signing with U.S.-based indie label Wampus Multimedia last year, Cafebar 401 rated an in-depth profile in the influential Dutch daily, De Telegraaf, and was featured prominently on Dutch television with SBS6. They are becoming fixtures at pop festivals up and down The Netherlands, including Dauwpopfestival, Struikpaaspop, IO-festival, and Wollipop. Cafebar 401 leader Tije Oortwijn grew up listening to the Black Crowes, the Rolling Stones, and Masters of Reality. He first piloted grunge-driven bands during the mid-'90s. Gradually he absorbed his influences and concocted the shadowy pop confections of Cafebar 401. Combining the roar of alternative rock with the drum-and-bass of N.E.R.D., Timbaland, Daft Punk, Cassius, and Outkast, Cafebar 401 evokes a hipper Foo Fighters, a fun and funkier Bush. The irrepressible 'Something Worth Dying For,' one of the band's live staples, boasts an uptempo drum-and-bass beat with a Fu Manchu-like guitar riff and a Masters of Reality-style chorus. Cafebar 401 departs enough from their influences, however, to cast a distinctive shadow. The first single, 'I Need to Know,' is a blast of tuneful emo, a modern-rock power ballad cast as yearning band-and-strings lament. Bangers such as 'Full-pro Disco!' and '2 am' augment frenetic dance tracks ('Something Worth Dying For') and contemplative pop ('Troubles,' 'Many Left Here Long Before'). Oortwijn is a songwriter first, a craftsman of guitar and studio. He infuses his songs with a mix of celebration and sadness. 'If the song isn't powerful,' he says, 'we throw it away.' With the release of their debut, Cafebar 401 is reaching beyond The Netherlands to greater Europe and the United States. Armed with a disc that rocks hard and sticks like candy, Cafebar 401 could stick with you. ***** PRESS.... 'Superlatives fail to accurately capture what Cafebar 401 has so capably put on plastic, and that's not an easy thing for a music critic to admit. This is one of those records that immediately begs for a place on your 'best of' list at the end of the year. You're not sure why, but you keep playing it - over and over and over again - and, with each successive listen, you become more certain that what you're hearing is somehow important. If there were any justice in the music business, Cafebar 401 would be the Next Big Thing. I, for one, look forward to more from these guys.' --Aaron Bragg, Indie-Music.com 'Cafebar 401 reminds me of another great, underappreciated disc of recent vintage: Idlewild's The Remote Part. While not all the songs on Cafebar 401 fit the mold (a good thing, incidentally), some of them do, notably 'Many Left Here Long Ago,' 'Something Worth Dying For,' and 'Sense Working Overtime,' whose 'wherever she goes she blows me away' chorus is nothing short of brilliant. Perhaps it's that frontman Tije Oortwijn's singing is ideal for the alternative Euro-rock tracks the band has put to record. Perhaps it's the way in which one song flows generously into the next without sounding like the previous track in much the same way that a great mix tape does. For example, the opening track, 'Full Pro Disco,' gives little insight into what listeners will find on the remainder of the disc; however, at the same time, it draws the listener in, daring him to venture further. Equally impressive is the band's ability to downshift on tracks like 'Lost Without You' (which bears a passing resemblance to the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 'Under the Bridge') and 'Troubles,' and then pick up the tempo again on tracks
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