David & the Citizens was a Swedish rock band formed in 1999.
Their first, self-titled, EP was released on April 9, 2001 on Adrian Recordings. The same year another EP was released under the name I've Been Floating Upstream. The band also made their second performance at the Hultsfred festival that year. The debut album For all Happy Endings was released March 8, 2002, and soon after the EP Song Against Life whose title track lay several weeks on MTV:s Up North. In the summer of 2002 the band played at all the major festivals in Sweden as well as the Roskilde Festival in Denmark. In 2003 the band released their second album Until the Sadness is Gone, and in 2004 the EP Big Chill which also Mattias Alkberg appeared on. Until the Sadness is Gone was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award in 2003/2004.
I once saw David & The Citizens perform at the Eurosonic showcase festival in Groningen in the basement of NewsCafe. I still consider it one to the worst sounding bands ever, but that's due to the sound engineers. With lots of effort I could extract something that sounded like songs and I thought these compositions were not that bad.
So looking them up, I found out that "Now She Sleeps in a Box in the Good Soil of Denmark" is indeed a fantastic song, and "I've Been Floating Upstream Since We Parted" and "Song Against Life" are also good. The rest of the material varies between good intensions and ok songwriting.
All in all it is a decent debut album for a band with an awful name. Wonder why they did not have a commercial breakthrough... wink wink. It's not the best album on this list, but a nice one to listen to and for people with found memories of a performance like me, it deserves those four stars.
Didn’t really leave an impression outside of the intro/outro, falls into the radio-friendly indie of the early aughts where things all sounded similarly schmaltzy and way too twee.
I've made a couple of really good discoveries from this project lately, and this is one of them. Really interesting. Reminds me a bit of Bright Eyes maybe? But not like in a copycat way, just a bit reminiscent. Will listen again, and check out their other material. 4 stars.
More alright indie rock for the alright indie rock mountain that is now roughly 75% of the user submitted list.
This is so alright that I said to myself: "Wow, alright."
I liked this well enough, musically moreso than lyrically, where there was little too inspire. Functional soft rock on the folkier end of the spectrum.
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