TORPEDO

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Torpedo are five Swedes collecting together to form one powerful machine, a band-as-locomotive which is now heading steadily out across the world with its motorik beat, enticing people to come on board with pop hooks. Describing themselves as “Kraftwerk with a heart”, the band also have a real philosophy behind the band – collectivity – and it’s one they wish to extend to the population of the planet, indeed they feel it’s their urgent duty to do so. For in their dark minds a catastrophe is coming.
“We’re trying to write the soundtrack to the apocalypse,” says Pontus Levahn, guitarist chirpily, “We see us as a tight group preparing for the apocalypse we’re writing about.we need to stick together, and who knows, maybe the end of the world is healthy, what we need is to break down and then rebuild.”
He’s referring to the band’s forthcoming second album, and really, if it is the soundtrack to the apocalypse then someone press that big red ‘Nuke’ button now. Entitled ‘We’ – after the famed dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin, and as Pontus puts it “the power of the collective and the loneliness of the individual” – it’s a dark, gloomy concept album which is actually huge fun too. The band bill it as ‘Kraut-pop’, and its mix of the cosmic drone of Neu! and the big choruses of Echo and the Bunnymen make for a heady, addictive music that’s impossible not to be carried along with.
“Torpedo is a utopian dream of friendship and brotherhood, it’s our weapon against a dystopia,” says Andreas. “’We’ is a dark album and the ideas we have may not be the happiest, but it’s catchiness, the little spark, shows there is some hope for the future.”
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