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Track Listing 1. Intro - (with Teddy Bears) 2. Different Sound - (with Malte/Teddy Bears) 3. Cobrastyle - (with Mad Cobra/Teddy Bears) 4. Yours to Keep - (with Neneh Cherry/Teddy Bears) 5. Are You Feelin' It - (with Elephant Man/Teddy Bears) 6. Black Belt - (with Teddy Bears) 7. Punkrocker - (with Teddy Bears/Iggy Pop) 8. Ahead of My Time - (with Daddy Boastin'/Teddy Bears) 9. Automatic Lover - (with Teddy Bears) 10. Magic Kraut - (with Teddy Bears) 11. Little Stereo - (with Daddy Boastin'/Teddy Bears) 12. Riot Going On - (with Teddy Bears/Ebbot Lundberg) 13. Alma - (with Teddy Bears)
Album Notes Composers: Joakim Ahlund; Klas Ahlund; Patrik Arve. Teddybears: Patrik Arve, Klas Ahlund, Joakim Ahlund. Personnel: Erik Olsson, Andreas Kleerup (drums); Annie Schultz, Irma Schultz, Sarah Dawn Finer, Desmond Foster (background vocals). Recording information: Pile Studios, Stockholm, Sweden. On its 2006 U.S. debut, SOFT MACHINE, the Stockholm-based electro-rock group Teddybears presents a fun, energetic, and eclectic set. Although the band became known stateside for the jaunty, dancehall-tinged single "Cobrastyle," even more impressive highlights of the album include the propulsive "Yours to Keep" (with singer Neneh Cherry) and the pulsing, Krautrock-inspired "Punkrocker," which features a wonderfully detached vocal turn from Iggy Pop. Fans of likeminded techno acts such as Fatboy Slim, the Chemical Brothers, and Rinocerose will readily squeeze tight the accessible and engaging Teddybears.
Industry Reviews [T]hese former punk teens have developed into curiously canny mashers, juggling mirror-globe foot-stompers...neon disco...Kraft-re-werks and cockeyed cameos.
3.5 stars out of 5 -- What distinguishes Teddybears is execution....Mixes are brightened, grooves tightened, vocals changed.
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