"Can you keep a secret?"

"Honestly?     No."

That's the opening line to The Whitest Boy Alive's newest album (2009) entitled "Rules." The song is "Keep a Secret."
It's the GOOD SONG for today, so check it out yourself: Keep A Secret (by the way, ignore the two minutes of silence at the end of the song... don't know why they're there)


I've loved The Whitest Boy Alive (let's just call them TWBA from now on, OK?) since their first album came out in 2006. I became somewhat obsessed with their song Burning, and couldn't stop playing it for a long, long time. The band is made up of Erlend Øye, Marcin Öz, Sebastian Maschat, and Daniel Nentwig. 
Side Note 1: Erlend Øye (from Norway) is also in the great band Kings of Convenience, who made one of the BEST VIDEOS EVER: 
I'd Rather Dance With You!!
Side Note 2: it is MANDATORY that you watch this video. 


TWBA is one of the many great bands to come out of the icy cold yet strangely catchy-song-filled countries of Norway & Sweden these days (OK, so TWBA is technically based out of Berlin, but whatever, most of the band members are Norwegian), like Sondre Lerche, The Tallest Man on Earth, and Jens Lekman. 


Their sound is a bit spare, but surprisingly catchy. Maybe it's their strong bass and drums, but it's really hard to keep your feet still while listening to TWBA. Erlend Øye's voice is rather unemotional, but his lyrics are great, often with a interesting humorous note to them. 


OK, I also like them because Erlend Øye is so adorably dorky-looking. 

Yeah, pretty white. 

DOWNLOAD THEIR MUSIC HERE: TWBA


If you like this song, you might also check out:


Sondre Lerche
Kings of Convenience
Ratatat
Joy Division
(all very different from each other, but TWBA pulls from all of them)


Over and out,
Anna