Death Team
Death Team | |
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Origin | Sweden |
Genres | Indie pop, Hip hop |
Years active | 2015 | –present
Labels | Cow-Pow Studios, Warner Bros Records |
Members | Maja Edelbring Johen Rafael Tilli |
Website | deathteam |
Death Team are a Swedish indie pop group which consists of Mayka (born Maja Edelbring) and Johen Rafael Tilli. They have released a number of singles and an EP.[1][2]
Career
Mayka has a background in DJing and while Tilli has worked as a film animator.[1] Tilli previously featured in the duo Lissi Dancefloor Disaster.[3] Their debut single, "Shake it Off", was released in May 2014.[4] Their second single, "Fucking Bitches In The Hood", was premiered on the Vice website Noisey on 8 December 2014.[5][6] It was supported by a video shot in a Canadian bowling alley that was released on 21 February 2015.[7] Their third single, "Dolphin Style", was released on 8 May 2015, and coincided with their self-created Dolphin Awareness Day, made to raise awareness about dolphins in captivity.[8]
In November 2015 the American music magazine Spin picked "Fucking Bitches In The Hood" as the 9th best song of 2015 writing that it's "the most perfectly WTF rap verse of 2015".[9]
In 2016 they performed shows around Europe while working on their debut album[10] In January 2016 they announced on Facebook that they are starting a record label called Rich Parents.[11] In June they released the single "Jump".[12][13]
On 20 September 2016, the band released their first EP, titled "Death Team Loves You'. It was followed by the single "Messed Up".[14]
In 2017 they released the single "Work".[1]
Central concepts of Death Team
Death Team focuses a lot on some recurring subjects in their interviews, music and presence on social media: dolphins, veganism, money, Girl Power, yoga, pop culture, the music business, Pop music, Nail polish, Internet as of the 90s, the joy of creating music and Paris Hilton. [10][15][16]
Discography
Extended plays
Title | Album details |
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Death Team Loves You |
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Singles
Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
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SE | |||||
"Shake It Off" | 2014 | — | TBA | ||
"Fucking Bitches In The Hood" | 2015 | — | |||
"Dolphin Style" | — | ||||
"So Fresh" | — | ||||
"Gold" | — | ||||
"Jump" | 2016 | — | |||
"Messed Up" | — | ||||
"Work" | 2017 | — | |||
"Weekend" | — | ||||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |
Music videos
Year | Title | Director |
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2015 | "Fucking Bitches In The Hood" | Mark Zibert |
"So Fresh" | Henrik Edelbring | |
"Gold" | ||
2016 | "Messed Up" | Kristoffer Jansson |
2017 | "Weekend" |
See also
- Ängie - Swedish pop artist discovered by Death Team
References
- ^ a b c Day, Laurence (7 February 2017). "Death Team do what they gotta do on new banger "Work"". The Line of Best Fit. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team | Album Discography | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Hines, Chris (7 February 2011). "Interview: Lissi Dancefloor Disaster". Hit The Floor. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team - Shake It Off". Discogs. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team Release "Fucking Bitches in the Hood" and It Sounds Like All the Best Uffie Songs". Vice. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ Birch, Annah (8 December 2014). "Premiär: Death Team "Fucking bitches in the hood"". bon.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team - Fucking Bitches In The Hood (OFFICIAL VIDEO) on YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ^ "Death Team - Invincible Music". Invincible Music. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ^ "The 101 Best Songs of 2015 | SPIN - Page 5". Spin. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ a b "INTERVIEW: DEATHTEAM". Totally Stockholm. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ "Death Team - hi everyone..." Facebook. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
- ^ Malt, Andy (21 June 2016). "Approved: Death Team – Jump". completemusicupdate.com. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team - Jump". Discogs. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ Lester, Paul (24 October 2016). "New band of the week: Death Team (No 125) – fun for kids of all ages". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 February 2017.
- ^ "Death Team". Instagram. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
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