120 Days

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120 Days found each other in Kristiansund, a small town in Norway, but decided if they ever were to reach out to a larger audience they’d need to move to another town. And so they pooled their money, bought an RV and drove it to Oslo and lived rent-free (you don’t have to pay rent for the sidewalk) creating music in their tight-quarters studio/mobile home.

Imagine a handful of Neu!, Spacemen 3 and XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream obsessed kids hanging in an RV in a city that sees periods of darkness that last for weeks on end. Then 120 Days makes a lot more sense.

The band plays hypnotic electro-rock with dark memories of Joy Division and riffs that are New Order worthy.

In 2004, then known as The Beautiful People (changed their name due to copyright when they got signed by Virgin) they released their criticly acclaimed first EP named Sedated Times. The summer of 2005 they toured Norway attending festivals including Quart’05, one of Norways biggest festivals.

The band’s second album (debut album in USA under the name 120 Days) was released on 10th October 2006 produced by Anders Moller, from Euroboys, mixed by Jorgen Troen at Duper Studios and mastered by Alan Douche in New York.

120 Days had its first rehearsal autumn 2001 in their small hometown, Kristiansund, on the north-west coast of Norway. The band consisted of four friends Jonas Dahl, Arne Kvalvik, Kjetil Ovesen and Ådne Meisfjord.

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Top Tracks

1	Sleepwalking	109
2	Get Away	106
3	Keep On Smiling	76
4	Lazy Eyes	69
5	C-Musik	68
6	Come Out, Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone	67
7	Be Mine	66
8	Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone)	52
9	Sleepless Nights	39
9	Justine	39
11	I've Lost My Vision	30
12	Sleepless Nights #3	23
13	So This Is Suicide	19
13	I've Lost My Vision (Kraut nr1)	19
15	Come Out (Come Down, Fade Out, Be Gone	9

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kaitymh wrote:
Wednesday evening

i thought they were named for red blood cells, they have a life span of 120 days.

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unspeakablerx wrote:
last week

fun tunes, to be sure

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special_user wrote:
last month

it's like new order+the verve+BRMC mixed together. awesome

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rioxxxx0112 wrote:
last month

I love 120 Days so much!aw,I wanna see their gig again!

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alieu wrote:
June 2008

Best norwegian band and album ever! unique sound!

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Taell wrote:
March 2008

Thanks :D I think it's a pretty cool name ^^ And the album is still so fucking great...

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Iceman1691316 wrote:
February 2008

These guys are probably the best thing that's come out of me following all the Coachella bands.

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splittenseams wrote:
January 2008

See you guys at Coachella!!

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Wizard2525 wrote:
January 2008

Great band.

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rawky wrote:
January 2008

Kristiansund. Not Kristiansand. There's a difference. About 883 km (548 miles). ;-)

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ondskabens_and wrote:
January 2008

120 days is a refrence to how they came up with there style. They are from Kristiansand(a city in norway), but thought they had to move to a bigger city to get anywhere with there music, so they moved to Oslo. The lived i a campingwaggon for 4 months (120 days) and came up with the sound as we know it. så that is why the name 120 days

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StDionysus wrote:
January 2008

Taell: my guess is that their name is a reference to The 120 days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. just conjecture though.

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stroszek_ wrote:
January 2008

i danced with a drunk man trying to look like sgt. peppers to this music at roskilde, and it was great.

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bartholomay wrote:
December 2007

anyone has links to Sedated Times and Sleepwalking EP's? Been trying to find for months... =(

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Espeon wrote:
November 2007

Need torrent to the albums!

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alix05 wrote:
November 2007

cooollll music!!! cooollll musiccc!!!! Indie rock n fucking space rockkkkkkkkkkkk and rolllllllll

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jim_bomb wrote:
November 2007

very good, indeed

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Taell wrote:
November 2007

Does anyone know why they are called 120 Days? =o

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holtmi wrote:
November 2007

cool :)

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PinkDot83 wrote:
October 2007

One of my best albums of the year 2007

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