Lifejackets (album)

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Lifejackets
Mimas Lifejackets.png
Studio album by
Released25 October 2010
Genre Indie rock, alternative rock
Length41:08
Label BSM
Producer Kenn Hedegaard Eskildsen
Mimas chronology
The Worries
(2008)
Lifejackets
(2010)
Strong Ties
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Lifejackets is the second album by Danish based indie rock band Mimas. It was produced by original keyboardist Kenn Hedegaard Eskildsen.

Denmark Constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a sovereign state in Northern Europe. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The southernmost of the Scandinavian nations, Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

Mimas is a Danish band, based in Aarhus. The band comprises Iceland-born Snævar Njáll Albertsson, Daniel Malling Beck, Gert Hoberg Jørgensen, and Lasse Dahl Christensen . Mimas signed to Big Scary Monsters Recording Company in 2008, and their debut album The Worries was released on 6 October 2008. The quartet has also signed to the French label Distile Records who released the album in Europe and in the U.S. in 2009. Their second album Lifejackets was released in October 2010.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Mimas.

No.TitleLength
1."Application"5:22
2."La Moustache Formidable"4:18
3."Manflu"4:25
4."Sodapop Stalkers"4:23
5."Rotting Rodents"4:06
6."Smom"3:29
7."Vader In Burgos"3:52
8."Touring The Riot Scene"6:32
9."Relationship"4:46
Total length:41:08

Personnel

Mimas

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