It’s A Musical debuts with The Music Makes Me Sick

It’s A Musical released a debut album on called The Music Makes Me Sick (released on 10.28.08 in the US). This Swedish duo will crawl into the hearts of fans of Mates of State or Stereolab. Robert Kretzchmar plays drums and backs up on vocals, and Ella Blixt plays keys and leads the duo on vocals. Abandoning guitars (besides bass), It’s A Musical has a simplistic indie pop sound that mixes horns with organs, piano, and drums.

Ella and Robert met in Malmö, Sweden where the two were involved in their own projects. Ella Blixt was releasing music as Bobby Baby while she lived in Germany in 2005. Later Ella’s project evolved into Boby & Blumm when she released an album with F.S. Blumm for Morr Music.

It’s A Musical – The Music Makes Me Sick

It’s A Musical have a chill video for Bad Day, taken from one continuous shot of Ella and Robert riding a bicycle, echoing the simplicity of their music:

25.11.2008 Berlin (D) – Lido w/ Jamie Lidell
26.11.2008 Innsbruck (A) – Weekender Club
28.11.2008 Rome (I) – Black Out Club
29.11.2008 Eboli (I) – Rifrullo
30.11.2008 Avellino (I) – Black Houses Blues
01.12.2008 Modena (I) – SpazioLeLune
02.12.2008 Marghera (I) – Il Vapore
03.12.2008 Bologna (I) – Sesta Senso
04.12.2008 Arezzo (I) – Il Garage
05.12.2008 Boves (I) – Nuvolari Club
06.12.2008 Fucecchio (I) – Limonaia
07.12.2008 Brescia (I) – Salò 24
11.12.2009 Berlin (D) – Schokoladen

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• February 19, 2010 -- Seabear: I’ll Build You A Fire video
• February 19, 2010 -- The Go Find: It’s Automatic video
• May 26, 2009 -- The Wooden Birds: Magnolia debut
• January 29, 2009 -- Sin Fang Bous: Clangour and Flutes video
• December 4, 2008 -- Sin Fang Bous: Advent In Ives Garden animated video
• November 26, 2008 -- Seabear’s Sindri Mar Sigfusson is back with a solo project