A Kiss Before You Go enters the UK Indie Chart at #19 this week! Now isn´t that nifty?

We have a release date for the “Live In Hamburg” CD and DVD! It will be out on the 25th of May, in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, and you can pre-order it here. And look, it´s the new video for “Land Of Confusion”!

Marianne´s alter ego Dandylion is out with part two of the trilogy “Images Under Construction”, and we simply could not recommend it strongly enough.  Seriously. It really is a fantastic little collection of songs, from the energetic soul stomper “Fall Out” to the beautiful “Ballad Of The Dandylion”.

Get it here. If the link does not work where you are, let us know in the comments, please..

“KATZENJAMMER’S A Kiss Before You Go is a wonderfully eclectic delight… an album that’s by turns kooky and obscure yet also catchy and jig-along.

It’s a collection of folk-pop that’s also informed by Balkan flavours, cabaret clubs, comic strips and straight up pop with the odd dark number thrown in for good measure.

Katzenjammer are Anne Marit, Marianne, Solveig and Turid and they hail from Norway. Thus far, they’ve garnered something of a cult following on these shores. But thanks to this latest album, that following could now grow.”

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This funky bunch are members of the Norwegian Rock Paper Scissors Society, an “organisation for the advancement of the game rock, paper, scissors as decision making tool, conflict resolvement method and sport”. And they have a favourite band. Can you guess which one?

Hint: Rock, paper, scissors.

From BBC Breakfasts Facebook photo album:

“We spoke to Norwegian girl group Katzenjammer who also played us out with a great performance of their song ‘I Will Dance.’”

Photo: BBC

And here´s the whole bit, starting with a short and sweet version of “I Will Dance”, then sofa chat.

Culminating in the frankly astonishing harmonised a cappella ‘God’s Great Dust Storm’ – jaws on floor a prerequisite for any listen – A Kiss Before You Go departs, leaving us breathless and pondering over what we’ve just heard. Refusing to be background music, the album requires – and deserves – your full attention as otherwise you’ll drop in at one moment to be wrapped in a lovely acoustic melody, only to swing by later on and be hit with a full-blown gothic drama. It won’t be to everyone’s tastes but it’s hard to believe any other album this year will make you feel so off-balance as it unfolds – a really rather glorious feeling to be felt in a musical world too often filled with convention.

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Everybody’s favourite Norwegian multi-instrumentalist female four-piece set sail for the airwaves in their latest swashbuckler of an album. With UK dates at the end of May, their small but cult-like following can only swell, and judging by this album, deservedly so. Carving out a unique niche for themselves in the bosom of folk-pop, Anne Marit Bergheim, Marianne Sveen, Solveig Heilo and Turid Jørgensen’s latest effort is often raucous, occasionally majestic and close to brilliance.

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