Level & Tyson
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Level & Tyson | |
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 Level & Tyson photographed in San Francisco | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Oslo, Norway |
| Genres | Slacker pop, Alternative rock |
| Years active | 2011–present |
| Labels | DIG!, Leisure Music, Das Kirurg, Tuba, Luckee Records |
| Members | Richard Lorentz Johansen Sofie Søndervik Sæther Namra Saleem Jokaim Kristiansen Hampus Sjöstedt |
| Past members | Jobo Engh Jun Christian Villanueva |
| Website | www.levelandtyson.com |
Level & Tyson is a Norwegian slacker pop band,[1] consisting of Richard Noir, Sofie Søndervik Sæther, Namra Saleem, Joakim Kristiansen and Hampus Sjöstedt.[2]
Formation and Even Faster Still
Richard Noir started the band while still playing drums for Superfamily, writing songs for Even Faster Still when Noir and Sæther lived together in Paris.[3] The album was partly recorded in their apartment in Paris, and partly at Propeller Studio in Oslo together with the producer Thomas Tofte.[4] The record was released in 2012.
"Even Faster Still" is a phrase from a self-hypnosis course.[5]
Mr. Teenager and touring
In 2014 Level & Tyson released Mr. Teenager, a stand-alone single collaborating with Japanese noise musician Sakamoto Hiromichi. The collaboration was an initiative from Noir and Sæther after watching "We Don’t Care About Music Anyway", a documentary about Japanese noise music.[3]
Level & Tyson visited USA for the first time at the Culture Collide festival in October 2014. The Huffington Post marked their San Francisco concert as "refreshingly unique",[6] whilst Buzzbands LA said their LA-concert "perhaps made rock music as intimate as it could get".[7]
Gruesome Twosome
The band released the first single Tied Up on 7 May 2015,[1][8] followed by No Fun My Head on 4 September. CMJ premiered the second single a week early, announcing the track list and release date of the upcoming album.[9] The album was scheduled to be released 25 September.
