Denmark's The Foreign Resort Sign To Three Ring Records, Announce Vinyl LP Release

Three Ring Records has announced the signing of Danish band The Foreign Resort to its roster. The label will release the band's third full-length recording, "Offshore," on February 16th on vinyl. "Offshore" was produced by Bo Karlsson and mastered by Jan Eliasson (Spleen United, The Raveonettes). The album is so far distributed in Denmark through Labelkollektivet, in the USA through Three Ring Records and in Italy through Black Nutria Independent Label. The album is also available worldwide through various online and digital stores.

The Foreign Resort is a kind of musical escape that sounds as if The Cure and Sonic Youth caught up with one another over a couple of cocktails in Copenhagen. That's probably because when The Foreign Resort formed in Denmark three years ago, singer Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen showed his songs to the rest of the band while the influences of Robert Smith, Thurston Moore and Jack Daniels swam in the back of his mind.

While resorts are known for being relaxing, The Foreign Resort is a bit more restless - with resonant vocals riding atop frayed guitars and a defiant rhythm section of Morten Hansen and Rasmus Steen. Drummer Morten Hansen, guitarist Henrik Fischlein and singer Mikkel Borbjerg Jakobsen were long-time friends with a shared interest in shoegaze music. In the summer of 2006, the group accosted Rasmus Steen on the streets of Copenhagen, hijacking him as The Foreign Resort's new bassist.

February 2009 saw the Danish release of The Foreign Resort's debut album, "Offshore," in cooperation with the classic Copenhagen vinyl store "Smukstoej."

"It's interesting to see how over the last couple of years, old dusty record players are getting 'dogged out' from storage rooms and basements," said the band's lead singer on why The Foreign Resort is excited about the vinyl version of the "Offshore" album. "That's the tendency we're tailgating onto. And of course it is a childhood dream to release vinyl."

Splitting the album into two sides also emphasizes the two moods of "Offshore" - the extroverted radio songs of Side A and the more introspective and intense feeling of Side B.

Audio: The Foreign Resort - "Lost My Way"

Audio: The Foreign Resort - "The Starlit Sea"

Track Listing

1. Opening Act
2. Lost My Way
3. The Starlit Sea
4. Towards the Dusk
5. Morning
6. Stars & Halo
7. Night
8. Into the Sunshine
9. Relax (It's Only Love)

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