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Dexter's Moon
12+ albums
swedishfemale vocalistsfemale vocalistsinger-songwriterunder 2000 listeners
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“I used to have the notion, I could swim the length of an ocean, if I knew you were waiting for me." That pretty much sums up the reasons why Jenny suddenly decided to make music of her own, instead of just listening to it, and constantly dating musicians. It would also mean that people probably would stop asking her why she wasn't in a band, since two of her brothers have been making music since their teens (Statemachine and Tiger Lou being their present musical alter egos). And maybe new things would start to happen. And at the exact right moment Jenny had started to hang out a lot with Emilie, via a mutual friend (thank you Vesna!). Emilie had just bought an electric guitar, borrowed an acoustic guitar and a bass, and realized she couldn't play them all by herself at once. On November 5th 2000, just minutes before Ryan Adams' first solo performance in Stockholm, the decision was made to start a band. A few days later Emilie went to New York to visit a friend, and Jenny started to write 3-4 lyrics a day, rather crappy, to tell the truth, but probably well needed therapy for the writer ... The first rehearsal took place in Emilie's kitchen a month or so later, playing Whiskeytowns "(Excuse me) While I break my own heart tonight", or trying to play anyway. Emilie played the guitar, Jenny played the bass and sang in a pair of headphones, you can only guess how it sounded, we try to forget. To summon things up a bit, it took a year or so until we really started what would be
