Biography.
Postrock, emo-postpop, experimental-instrumental-music - the list goes
on. Music journalists are coming up with new subgenre names
pretty much every day and as we're in the middle of the most important
global discussion ever, at least according to some - about the importance
not to label bands as something they are not but letting the music speak
for itself, there are those who just wish that that was a "sooo last year
opinion"...
Originally formed in 2001 Swedish instrumental 4-piece Molia Falls are
one of those bands where you, if feeling extra creative, have the chance
to come up with your own genre name. They're instrumental, but not
postrock. Catchy, but not pop. Rock, but no distortion. "Dawson's
creek-core"? Don't know...
Having recorded their 5 song debut demo in early 2002 - it found it's way
out on the internet and got in the hands of several American indie labels
by early spring, while the band still was in high school. A full lenght
album was set to be released in the US, fall of 2002. It never happened.
Everything from there to mid-spring 2005 is pretty blurry.
College abroad, work, shady label owners, the band not being pleased
with recordings and what not, played some kind of part in it all.
Eventually Molia Falls recorded "A Support Entry Title EP" with producer
Mathias Oldén (Last Days Of April, Logh, Switchblade etc) at Mission Hall
Studio in the south of Sweden.
Even though not having finished the recording, they parted with the US
label that was supposed to put it out just months before the label went
out of business and the band were left on their own with a recording too
good to just throw away. Without any label supporting, Molia Falls started
to tour in Europe. With 5 tours down the road, shows in 6 european
countries, or 8 to be exact after the upcoming tour in may 2006, the band
somewhere down the timeline decided to put out the EP independently, as
demands of a release started to come in. Without a single copy sent to any
press, no website, with just 3 short snippets up on MySpace and only sold
the band itself, "A Support Entry Title" has sold +500 copies just by
the word of mouth.
Videos for the songs "Allay Avril" and "Exterior Estate" were produced by
band members themselves and are now available online on the new,
actually the first real website of Molia Falls along with a ton of other
stuff including live, and non live, video footage from tours, recordings...
Late summer of 2005 Molia Falls recorded 9 new songs with producer
Richard Larsson (The Sounds, Soilwork etc.) at Caesar Studio. 2 of them
ended up on a 3 track limited 7-inch released in november '05 by
Swedish label Jezebel Recordings. Some of songs will be on a yet
untitled tour EP that will be available at shows on the may tour...
"Svenskt" - a compilation of Swedish music incl. Molia Falls!
Watch the "Allay Avril" video!
Watch more Molia Falls videos on YouTube!
