About Siamese

The groundbreaking rock band SIAMESE (formerly Siamese Fighting Fish) is ready with a new album after a turbulent yet successful period. The band first stepped up to make a mark in August 2012, when they released their second album "Breathe:See:Move", which gathered positive reviews from around the world, and which Denmark's GAFFA's Keld Rud lauded as the country's best hard rock album in 2012. Three years later, after playing 150 concerts in ten different countries, claiming the GAFFA-award for best hard rock album, hitting the charts and getting released in both Japan and Europe, the band is now ready with their best album to date.

 

The self-titled record is a visionary and stylish release which is focused on good songwriting. SIAMESE own the fact that they're a hard rock band, but before your thoughts go back to the classic hard rock dinosaurs, it is important to note that the band wants more than to simply be compared to the past. The respect and understanding for the past is great, but SIAMESE try not to take too much inspiration from old giants, neither in songwriting, style or approach to the music. Guitarist and songwriter Andreas Krüger explains:

 

"We have created a rock album, which to begin with is not trying to be a rock album. We were getting a bit sick of the concepts of authenticity that rock normally clings to, so we did not use even a single tube amp in the creation of this album for instance. We have sampled Kendrick Lamar and cited Earl Sweatshirt's lyrics, because we are inspired by what is happening right now and not 25 years ago. I think you have forgotten the actual essense of rock'n'roll if you let yourself be controlled by notions of "how rock usually sounds like"."

 

The lyrical universe is founded in singer Mirza Radonjica's restless life in Copenhagen through the past eight years. His stories form an opposite to the usually glorified life as someone who's young, wild and successful. At times the lyrics give you a dark look into a young mind, which in its greed, desperation and anxiety wants everything, but consistently feels like it is missing out on something. The songs revolve around parties, success, status, drugs, sex, money and love, narrated by a person that in one moment feels unstoppable and happy, and in the next feels buried in loneliness and inadequacy.

 

"In the writing proces for this record I discovered that some of the expectations I had for life in Copenhagen, had some unexpected consequences. The city is perfect in many ways, almost like a fairy tale for young people, as it offers you all your heart could desire. Today though, I can honestly and regretfully say that I could not control my desire or handle the expectations I made for myself. It has been some difficult and shameful confessions to write on the record, but I hope and believe that they have helped me move forward."

 

Through the eleven songs on the album SIAMESE presents a fresh sound that mixes hard rock, funk, r&b and pop in a visionary fusion. The vision comes out in big, honest songs with a soaring feeling, where there is great focus on the songwriting, the melodies and the realisations of a young man who is on his way to becoming a grown up. The album shows a band that takes responsibility for its scene both artistically and in terms of musical politics, and which tries to move the boundaries and the perceptions of what Danish hard rock is in 2015

 

The self-titled album is released on January 19th on Prime Collective.