Douglas Heart is tagged as: swedish, shoegaze, indie pop, labrador, female vocalists
Douglas Heart first started out as a duo, an outgrowth from the shoegaze band Standing Pales. The two songwriters of the band, Malin Dahlberg {vocals} and Pontus Wallgren {guitar} started to make songs with a more intimate and minimalistic sound that they didn’t really want to ruin with way to distorted guitars and a jangly garage sound. So they moved on from the noicepop, though still keeping the tunes and simple chords, and called themselves “Hal Blaine”.|The concept of the music was to make short but concise songs, the setting was a small Casiosynth (whose organ sound and funky drums were most frequently used}, guitar, bass and song. In the summer of 2001 a demo was recorded in a real studio, from which two songs now are included on the Labrador Kingsize compilation. The sound changed into a more electronic and gentle approach, and it was somewhere around this time that hal blaine got in touch with Labrador records. When planning for a full length release on Labrador, Pontus and Malin discovered that Hal Blaine, the actual person, had given out his own releases under the very same name. When they, above that, also discovered that these releases were really bad, they decided to change the name to Douglas Heart....
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