Superheroes - Press Release 30th July 2004

Danish six-piece Superheroes are set to make their UK debut on October 25th with the release of ‘Behind Our Masks We Are Perfectly Ordinary People’ on the Sidewinder Sounds label (Cat:SDWR5).

Back home, they’re signed to Crunchy Frog (alongside Junior Senior) and have been releasing albums and winning major awards for six years. Even so, the band are all still in their early twenties. ‘Behind Our Masks…’ features tracks from all 3 of their albums, ‘Dancing Casanova’, ‘Igloo’ and ‘Superheroes’ and from 2 EPs, mostly recorded at Tambourine Studies in Sweden, and showcases their irresistibly quirky pop songs.

A diverse set of influences including Depeche Mode, Duran Duran and The Human League can be heard through the sunny escapism of ‘What’s Going On?’ and singalong sweet harmonies of ‘Voice(On The Radio)’ to the electro fuzz of ‘Miami’. Imagine The Wannadies’ having some precocious and cuter younger siblings and you’re halfway there.

The band started when singer/songwriter Thomas Troelson and guitarist Asger Tarpgaard met at school in a village just outside northern Danish town Skive. They even pressed up their first demo CD before Thomas’ voice had broken!

Since then, they’ve toured the US, Japan, France and The Netherlands and supported Beck in Stockholm at his personal invitation. Thomas also produced Junior Senior’s 2003 album ‘D-D-Don’t Stop The Beat’ and sang the unstoppable chorus on hit single ‘Move Your Feet.’ Junior and Senior return the favour with guest appearances on ‘Cool Girl’ and ‘Johnny And I’.

Superheroes are currently in the studio making another album. Surprisingly, given Thomas’ effortless onstage charisma and enigmatic appearance, they are a sweetly unassuming bunch who say ‘We are trying to focus on the music and not all the glamour that surrounds it… we don't find ourselves that interesting.’

For more info, please contact Rosie at Piranha PR on , or check out www.superheroes.dk

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