"wake brutal youth / before the world passes you by..."
The emotional bloodletting, counterweighted metaphors and truth, of "Brutal Youth", by Danish at rock band Music By Idiots, is full of heavy imagery, glacial in it's darkly romantic melancholia. If the song were a movie it might be cast in the darkest of grays of a nearly black and white indie film coated with depressive stares or frantic runs through the woods in silhouette as directed by a Susanne Bier or Thomas Vinterberg. Cast against forlorn bottom heavy piano, thumping drums that feel almost medieval, clangs and punctuated orchestrations distilled to something at once Gothic yet beautiful, musician / composer / vocalist Anders Rex throttles the weighty words with a vocal countenance that feels as austere as it does broken / hollow / enchanted. Truthfully, the vocal persona is masterful in the way it aids in the sort of mystical hypnotism going on here. Abstract, mysterious and wholly evocative.
“Everything fades, In blood that runs from your brow and that was you, and that was me,and that was us……….”
From LINER NOTES (bracketed):
[“All Ages have a crime, as future will hit, I’ll slowly decline, wake brutal youth, before the world passes you by”
An ode to youth, the current one, the one you left and the one that carries a potential hope for a better world, but also the place in life where you are always under fire and fighting the impossible battle.
“Brutal Youth” is our second version, with english lyrics and new string arrangement. The track is from our recordings at Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorie 2023-2024.
With us, we had the idea of making as simple a recording as possible, where all basic tracks were laid down exclusively with the help of vocals, drums and keys. An attempt to capture the intuitive in the interplay, and further develop the dynamics and drama of the composition.
“Brutal Youth” is a new interpretation of “Brutal Ungdom (borderlinien)”, which was one of the more rocking tracks on our debut record “Tiden Lyver”(2022).]
Such an utterly powerful track, "Brutal Youth" is the kind of song that feels like a dramatic theme to a future Netflix or Hulu binger or maybe a song that would inspired a moving story told in an episodic fashion.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
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We are so grateful that this little shining star, finally will find you in the dark.
A year ago we saw the Fassbinder movie “Querelle”, based on the Jean Genet novel “Querelle of Brest”. We were immediately thrown into the dark world of the movie, filled with murder, romantic obsession, homosexuality and prostitution.
The idea for “Gospel of Querelle” was born. The plot of the song lies somewhere between the narrators/ singer’s trust of and dependency on the charismatic lover who’s seductive with a dark unreliable and sinful nature. A song about giving your heart away, well knowing that it will lead to your destruction. It’s a gospel stripped from any form of belief and moral.
The song is recorded at The Royal Danish Academy of Music using only vocal, drums and organ to capture the dramatic and intuitive feeling that lies in the song.
Last year Music By Idiots released their debut album “Tiden Lyver” (Time Lies) on vinyl and digital. Artfully and consequent produced by Nis Bysted (Iceage, Speaker Bite Me and many others). “Tiden Lyver” is a concept album (Danish lyrics) with songs about living in this world with a thin and perforated skin.
Selection from the first reviews:
"An elegant play with songs that sometimes scratch, other times caress your skin and get hold of your very soul. With the help of Nis Bysted (including Iceage), the fine band connects past and present with some lyrics that are both personal and stand out from the point of view of mature people. Unusual and exceptionally good...” (Erik Jensen, Bongorama, 27 Nov. 2022).
"Music By Idiots, that's the name of a newer Danish rock band, which with roots in the punk milieu - has made an exciting debut album with strong songs, desperate vocals and a disturbing constantly changing atmosphere.." (Kasper Schütt-Jensen, Jyllands posten, 5 Nov 2022).
In MUSIC BY IDIOTS you will encounter a deeply personal and sometimes concerning text universe from the emotional excess of lust, love, desperation and longing. Musically it can be a stumbling chaos, as well as the great pop song. Contrapuntal and contradictory like life itself.
MUSIC BY IDIOTS BIOGRAPHY
Vocalist, musician and composer Anders Rex has flourished on Copenhagen’s punk and music scene since 1979, in bands such as Mad Gustav Band, Warshore, The Tide, The Bleeder Group and Svartbag. In his own name, he has, among other things, written music for Nicolas Winding-Refn's film "Pusher 2". Collaborated with such people as PeterPeter, Billy Name, Taylor Mead and Damo Suzuki.
Other members of the band Mads Lassen(drums), Martin Funder(guitars) and Jan Kromann(bas) have made music with such bands as Shiny Darkly, Deadpan, Countermarch, Bug Chaser and Decorate Decorate.
Music By Idiots, Danish art rock band, musician / composer / vocalist Anders Rex, indie rock, dream theatrical, darkly romantic, gothic, orchestral, "Brutal Youth", english version of Brutal Ungdom,
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