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Warwick Avenue
12+ albums
indieacousticbritpopalternative rockdanish
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Warwick Avenue is a Danish band signed to US label Columbia Records. Their sound can be described as a mix of Alternative Rock & Easy Listening. "LET IT OUT" Warwick Avenue's debut album, Let It Out, was released to iTunes on August 2, 2005. The five musicians in the musical collective known as Warwick Avenue hail originally from Copenhagen Denmark The Band Consists of: Jakob Illeborg - vocals Rune Funch - guitar Jakob Falgren - bass Nikolaj Torp - keyboards Kristoffer Sonne - drums Three of the group's members--Rune Funch, Anders Christensen, and Nikolaj Torp--had originally played together in Denmark as part of a modern jazz group called "Once Around The Park," whose debut album, "Unity," earned the Danish equivalent of a Grammy for Jazz Album of the Year in 1997. After attending Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music, Rune enrolled in the Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, where he met Anders and Kristoffer. A "great fan of American authors and songwriters," Jakob citing musical influences like Neil Young, Bob Dylan and the Band and literary heroes like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry Miller as sources of inspiration behind the group's exquisite cut-diamond songcraft. Each band member has contributed songs to the album and it's this collective collaborative chemistry that gives Warwick Avenue its distinctive sound and sensibility. It's this uncanny ability "to universalize the personal" that gives songs like "Picture You," "Beautiful," or
