Spleen United

It takes a strong musical vision and a solid band to produce the kind of cohesive, stylistically secure debut album that Spleen United has released in Godspeed into the Mainstream. But Spleen United is indeed a band that have taken their time to create their own unique sound and style. With an underlying tone of warm romanticism and a musical approach that can be down and dirty, hard rocking, melodious and experimental, Spleen United sounds like no other band in Denmark today. They have replaced bass and guitar with synthesizers on many of the tracks, and they insist on playing synthesizers as if they were guitars, lending an organic feel to the electronic aspects of the album. In other words, Spleen United have their own unique approach to music, and this puts them in a class of their own, right from their debut album, Godspeed into the Mainstream.

Spleen United consists of brothers Bjarke and Gaute Niemann, Jens Kinch, Kasper Noerlund and Rune Wehner. The band started out playing guitar-based music. The instrumentation was classic bass, drums and guitars and the musical tone fairly light. However, the band's palette darkened when one of the members happened to buy a synthesizer because we thought it could be cool to include it. As time went on, more and more synthesizers were added as the band discovered that abandoning the limitations of classic rock-band instrumentation enabled them to create new sonic imagery and moods.