Introducing…Sea Power!

De engelske indierockere British Sea Power har i dag officielt taget navneforandring til det mere enkle og ifølge bandet mindre nationalistiske Sea Power, og samtidig udsendt dette fine nye nummer, en forløber for et kommende album, Everything Was Forever, der dog desværre først udkommer i februar til næste år…

Sea Power forklarer selv navneskiftet i dagens pressemeddelelse: ‘The band have been thinking about changing their name for years now. It’s become clear that it’s possible to misapprehend the name British Sea Power as indicating nationalism of an insular, jingoistic nature. Twenty years on from their inception, Sea Power now sail forth, free of any national flag of convenience. The new band name is a modest gesture of separation from the wave of crass nationalism that has traversed our world recently. After all, this group have always been internationalist in outlook, as made clear in several songs, most notably Waving Flags, a hymn to pan-European congress. The name Sea Power is also a shorthand by which the band’s audience have long known the group‘.

2 tanker om “Introducing…Sea Power!”

  1. Har aldrig rigtig fået lyttet mig ind på (B)SP, men det er da to fine sange, så nogen anbefalinger til, hvor skal man starte? Ved “Do you like…” eller?

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