Hello All! Now you can have ALL of DUPOBS’ album Win Some, Lose Some for free download! It is DUPOBS’ final gift to the world in 2009. Expect to hear more from us in February, when we release a rock opera commemorating the glorious 2010 Winter Olympics!

An arbitrary line is drawn in a calendar. A young woman from Portugal arrives in Helsinki with one large backpack on her back and a small one on her front. Someone is very happy. An Anglophone boy gets on the Narita Express with a copy of William Gibson’s Idoru under his arm. Farm labourers in Madagascar prepare another shipment bound for South Korea. Someone listens to The Neon Judgement and thinks it’s extremely mediocre and wonders why the band didn’t just give up. Someone else dies because a bomb was dropped on their house. A couple on Vancouver’s #16 bus wear matching fingerless gloves. Someone is rejected. A middle-aged man reads the French translation of Abe Kobo’s Secret Rendezvous. Somewhere it snows. Elsewhere it is sunny and hot. The polar ice caps melt. DUPOBS release two new tracks from their latest album, Win Some, Lose Some:

1) We’re Just a Bunch of Fun-Lovin’ Guys / Until We Kick Your Head in, Fat
2) Hometown Blues, Bometown Clues

Lazy Crapification

On the twentieth anniversary of their founding in 1988, DUPOBS release

Win Some Lose Some, their fourth album since reuniting in 2002. This is make it or break it time for DUPOBS, a group that has gained critical recognition from the likes of Scotland’s Momus and Japan’s DeliciouSweets, but has yet to deliver a top-40 hit. Hot on the heels of 2007’s industrial-tinged Le Sex L’Ove, DUPOBS return to their rock roots, with a tip of the hat to Foreigner, Loverboy, and John Cougar Mellencrap. Containing more than a few super-catchy pop-rock tunes, Win Some Lose Some could be the breakthrough DUPOBS has been waiting for. And it’s not just the music. This time, DUPOBS pulls out all the stops, with innovative album packaging – made by a groundbreaking new technique called “lazy crapification” – and a fan-donated video for “Our Friendship Is Going To Grow”:

Other tracks with hit potential include “Run Down Home Town (Doin’ Good By His Hometown)”, and “We’re Just A Bunch Of Fun Guys Until We Kick Your Head In, Fat”. Keep your eyes and ears open in the weeks and months to come, as DUPOBS release Win Some Lose Some song by song on Last FM. Spread the word and help DUPOBS make history by giving regressive music the profile it deserves.

It is deeply comforting that Leos Carax’ latest film, “Merde” (in the tripartite omnibus Tokyo!), showcases a close linguistic relative to that rare discourse spoken by DUPOBS.  Through an interpreter, the eponymous main character berates his host culture.  Very soon, DUPOBS will – once again – provide a similar service aimed at popular music.