Figurines

Copenhagen Harbor’s bronze mermaid isn’t the only statuette sitting on big rock in Denmark. Channeling the wooly Danish Vikings who took to icy seas and ravaged half of Europe, FIGURINES are new historians teaching sold-out Scandinavian audiences to file their jagged helmet horns with crisp guitars and rolling melodies, surfing perfectly on back-beat modern waves. Reception to the band’s overtime touring continues to glow hotter than tipsy-hipster hearts at an Ice Hotel bar. Making foreign allies out of Rolling Stone’s senior editor David Fricke, or watching leather jackets rise in the grass at Roskilde Festival, FIGURINES songs are moving their fathers forward.

On March 7, 2006, The Control Group will welcome FIGURINES through U.S. customs. Female security guards double- take passport photos of Kristian Volden, Andreas Toft, Christian Hjelm, and Claus Salling Johansen, but x-ray monitors scan bits of Pavement, drops of early Built To Spill, an open Modest Mouse container, a couple Strokes, and a vial of Neil Young’s frantic youth.

Though handsomely distinctive and from a compact country that invented Lego, FIGURINES have somehow cultivated startlingly familial Pacific- Northwest sonic rock.

FIGURINES first EP, “The Detour”, led to early signings on Morningside Records in Denmark, and soon after on the Pop-U-Loud imprint in Germany. Spring 2003, FIGURINES unveiled their first indie-label powered full-length, “Shake A Mountain” and in turn, blasted out an alternative radio hit with, Bright. Shining down from the #1 chart position on Danish National Radio, the foursome packed club dates beyond Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.

This sets the electrifying FIGURINES work pace throughout April 2005, when “Skeleton”, their second and current full length album, turns momentum on high. As Danish press raves, three music videos (available at http://www.figurines.dk) off ”Skeleton” are uploading new listeners faster than the single, The Wonder, can reinstate them back to #1 on Danish National Radio. Which it did.

Bolstering Nordic turntables, The Control Group celebrate FIGURINES’ international arrival by pressing an advanced limited edition 7” vinyl 45 featuring Silver Ponds and The Wonder. Distributed throughout the entire U.S. and Canada “Skeletons” will follow suit and release nationwide on March 7, 2006.