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Vår


The young Danish musicians Elias Ronnenfelt and Loke Rahbek make songs that sound like dance music played through a long PVC tube filled with steel wool and muddy gauze. Lo-fi, punk-inspired sounds are in the duo's musical DNA: Ronnenfelt also plays in the bands Iceage and Marching Church and Rahbek,most notably is apart of synthpop band Lust For Youth and ambient project Croatian Amor, as well as co-runs the Copenhagen-based independent label Posh Isolation. Known until recently as War (another band with the same name objected), the duo are announcing a new name today: VÅR. VÅR is pronounced like War, but the meaning and the date the band chose to announce the change suggest a shift. Vår is the Danish word for spring, and May 5 marks the anniversary of end of the Nazi occupation of Denmark. The name change happens in spring and is named thereafter, the duo wrote. The name also states a new beginning for the project, that has been going on for already a few years by now. Starting as a post-industrial project releasing ltd. cassettes and now to be a multi media project, where in sound and image is of equal importance. VÅR is not music in a sense. its more like a way to wear your shirt and holding an arm around your friends. Vår apparently disbanded sometime in 2013 or 2014, Rahbek stating: We played the last ever Vår Show and everywhere you looked there would be Japanese people in tears. I played a Croatian Amor show in a queer goth club called Club Sodom at 3.30 in...

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