Envelopes is tagged as: indie pop, swedish, indie, indie rock, twee
Biography by Maja Karlsson, former bass player | |For about six years I played the bass in Envelopes. The first five of those, I only met the band a |few weekends a year, and during those weird Christian holidays. Audrey, Henrik and Fredrik |hung out and recorded some tracks on the computer. Once in a while we assembled for a couple |of days of around-the-clock rehearsals, to pull off some show, usually in Paris. The first show ever |was in Sweden though. That’s when Filip was recruited and a proper functioning pop band was |created. Indeed. The show was quite well received, but was to be our last on Swedish turf for a |long time. We played every Parisian venue, and Benicassim Festival in Spain, before getting any |recognition at all in Sweden. | |Eventually, Envelopes were approached by London based label Brille Records. We were going to |be their first band. To make it work professionally though, we had to meet more often than a |couple of times a year, and cut a few years from our usual song production time. So we had a crack at it, and told Brille what we needed to be a proper functioning band, for real: a house for |five people, with recording equipment, and no obligations to work with anything other than the |music to support our living. What do you know? They said yes. ...
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