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Teddy Bears

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Teddy Bears
Soft Machine
(Big Beat/Atlantic)
Released: September 26, 2006


***PRESS RELEASE***
When was the last time you danced your ass off? I don¹t mean any of that getting spiffed up for a Saturday night, making the rounds at the club with a cocktail in your hand and nodding your head along every so often. I mean DANCED YOUR ASS OFF in a sweat-inducing, jug-jiggling, booty-pounding way. I mean in a way that you don¹t care if your hair is plastered to your head with sweat and the top two buttons of your shirt have come undone because you¹re having too much fun and the music is THAT good.

If it's been awhile (and even if it hasn't), then close your office door, put your calls on hold and put on Soft Machine by TEDDYBEARS. You'll barely be into the first track when you've realized you've found your new soundtrack.

Teddybears is the brainchild of Swedes Jocke, Klas and Patrik who started out as a grindcore band and somehow stumbled upon making an album that could fit into many genres. There's elements of electronica, dance-hall, punk rock, reggae and more flowing through each track that makes not only for a fun album, but an album rooted in sophisticated musicology and wide-eyed creativity.

It¹s not only their music that makes the album so special, but it's also the guests they¹ve recruited to collaborate with them on it. Appearances by Annie, Nenah Cherry, Iggy Pop, Ebbot Lundberg (Soundtrack Of Our Lives), Daddy Boastin' and Jamaican MCs Elephant Man and Mad Cobra each lend their own style to a track on Soft Machine making each unique yet still comprehensive as an entire album.

***PRESS REVIEWS***
CMJ New Music Report
"Just when you think those Swedes will recede, some new suaves come skipping out of the Scandinavian sleet to make music hotter than us Yanks cook up."

Billboard
"Teddybears might be the best Swedish import since ABBA."

Entertainment Weekly
"This is clearly music for the body, not the brain: The 'bears' ecstatic beats gleefully bypass the cerebral cortex and go straight for the pleasure centers."

***NEWS***
Cobrastyle Video!
There is now a brand spankin' new video for 'Cobrastyle'. Check out the link section to view the video.

Antony on David Letterman Bryan Ferry at his most enraptured, Klaus Nomi at his most arch, and Morrissey shorn of all his defenses. Antony and the Johnsons tread an exquisite line between ghostly and gorgeous.

***LINKS***
teddybearsrock.com (official)
myspace.com/teddybears (myspace)
"Cobrastyle" (video stream)