“Not Cool". Initially, that was the title of the debut album from MF/MB/.

MF/MB/ is not cool. MF/MB/ is not the sound of Malmö, Stockholm, Berlin or New York, or any other place considered to be hip, progressive and associated with great music. MF/MB/ is and always will be the sound of Bollnäs. It may not be what the inhabitants of Bollnäs would refer to as the sound of their home town, but in the bands opinion it is.

They’ve been doing this for five years now, started out as 17 year olds, playing Arcade Fire-covers, eight people on stage, trumpets and accordions. Lost their drummer, got a new one who could play like a drum machine, increased the electronic elements, moved to Malmö and somewhere around that time, the combination of influences in MF/MB/’s music began developing into something unique. When rehearsing new material, they could no longer say: “this song sounds just like LCD Soundsystem” (or any other similiar band). It sounded like none other than themselves. And oh, the thrill of that feeling...

MF/MB/ is countryside and city streets, it’s woods and concrete, cigarettes and alcohol, hope and despair, clubs and saunas, autobahn and bad English. MF/MB/ is gay sex and straight sex and endless studio sessions. It’s the anger and disillusion of performing in Berlin as 18 year olds and then going back to Sweden to play in small pubs in the middle of nowhere for people who’d rather listen to Basshunter. MF/MB/ is a terrible band name. MF/MB/ is self confidence and bad conscience. Lack of money. Good looks. Clothes. Never looking back, always doing the same mistakes. It’s about frequent stupid questions in interviews - “Christine, how does it feel being the only girl in the band?” – and the inability to give the answers those questions deserve. MF/MB/ is a thousand compromises from a million ideas. It’s about filling up empty holes. It’s about staying alive by playing live. The oxygen on stage. Eyes of the audience. The handclaps and the shouts.

MF/MB/ is guitars, drums, bass, synthesizers, vocals and computers, but most of all it’s Victor, Jocke, Sebastian, Christine and Erik, making the best music they know. Not cool or not-cool, that’s up to you. And even if you get it, you still just don’t get it.

The 17th of May 2010 Adrian Recordings released the first appetizer from the upcoming debut album. The track is called “The Big Machine” and says it all. In the fall of 2010 the world will be haunted by the whirlwind, heat and flash that is to become there album “Folded”.

Download The Big Machine HERE:

MF/MB/ - The Big Machine