The Disciplines

The Disciplines certainly are a music group focusing on energetic, straightforward, garage-influenced rock & roll having a poppy undertow, the first part which might come like a surprise to folks acquainted with the band’s history. The Disciplines’ tale started when Briskeby, a Norwegian pop music group who have been wildly successful within their house country, asked Ken Stringfellow — the co-founder of American alt-pop heroes the Posies who experienced also worked thoroughly with R.E.M. and Big Celebrity — to collaborate using the music group on the documenting of their third recording, 2005’s Jumping on Vehicles, and their following concert tour. Jumping on Vehicles became Briskeby’s final recording, and guitarist Bjorn Bergene, bassist Bard Helgeland, and drummer Claus Heiberg Larsen had been wanting to make music that was simpler, leaner, and even more immediate than Briskeby’s clean, electronically focused pop. Stringfellow distributed that desire, and he authorized on as business lead singer using the trio’s fresh project. Phoning themselves the Disciplines, the music group released their debut recording, Smoking cigarettes Kills, in early 2009. The music group backed the album’s launch with several displays in Sweden, Norway, and THE UNITED STATES, while Stringfellow toured Asia with an alternative band of Disciplines when his bandmates had been unavailable. In past due 2009, drummer Larsen remaining the group and Ralle Vilnes, from the music group Emmett Dark brown, became their fresh percussionist. The brand new lineup joined the studio room in middle-2010, and in the springtime of 2011, the next Disciplines recording, Virgins of Menace, premiered internationally.