Barcode Brothers

The Barcode Brothers are Christian Møller Nielsen and Anders Øland, a pair coming from Denmark. Their music is engaging and after hearing just a little bit you find yourself salivating for more. The music has a sort of trance quality to it, as it takes a catchy melody and repeats it while building upon it and putting out different variations. The Barcode Brothers only ever made one album, and it's the sort where with each track, it's either an awesome song or a fairly mundane one yet still worth listening to. The thing that sets the Barcode Brothers apart from other artists of the genre is really that their best songs are mind-blowingly extraordinary despite the disappointment of everything that isn't those best ones. They use instruments such as guitars, flutes, and bells together with the well-chosen electronic sounds that make up the bulk of the songs to create music that is easy to listen to repeatedly and actually somewhat meditative.

The best of the Barcode Brothers:

• Flute
• It's a Fine Day
• Dooh Dooh

“It's a Fine Day” is a somewhat paradoxical song, as although the title and lyrics pronounce at first glance how nice of a day it is, the feeling and color of the music, as well as the interestingly chosen background sounds of waves and of seagulls, make the day being spoken of seem like a windy and cloudy day in deep autumn at the grass-covered top of high cliffs overlooking the ocean, perhaps with the singer standing up there wearing a big hand-woven coat. That is, however, a fine day in old Goggin's book. The sound of the chorus, both of the instrumental side and the vocal side, and especially the flute and nonsense vocals, is somewhat haunting in a strangely comforting way. The acoustic guitar forming a very subtle counter melody at certain parts is just one example of “It's a Fine Day”'s complexity and uniqueness.

You can listen to “It's a Fine Day” here.

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