Level & Tyson

Level & Tyson
Level & Tyson photographed in San Francisco
Background information
Origin	Oslo, Norway
Genres	Slacker pop, Alternative rock
Years active	2011–present
Labels	DIG!, Leisure Music, Das Kirurg, Tuba, Luckee Records
Associated acts	Superfamily
Website	www.levelandtyson.com
Members	Richard Lorentz Johansen Sofie Søndervik Sæther Namra Saleem Jokaim Kristiansen Hampus Sjöstedt
Past members	Jobo Engh Jun Christian Villanueva

Level & Tyson is a Norwegian slacker pop band, consisting of Richard Noir, Sofie Søndervik Sæther, Namra Saleem, Joakim Kristiansen and Hampus Sjöstedt.

Richard Noir started the band while still playing drums for Superfamily, writing songs for Even Faster Still when Noir and Sæther lived together in Paris. The album was partly recorded in their apartment in Paris, and partly at Propeller Studio in Oslo together with the producer Thomas Tofte. The record was released in 2012.

"Even Faster Still" is a phrase from a self-hypnosis course.

In 2014 Level & Tyson released Mr. Teenager, a stand-alone single collaborating with Japanese noise musician Sakamoto Hiromichi. The collaboration was an initiative from Noir and Sæther after watching "We Don’t Care About Music Anyway", a documentary about Japanese noise music.

Level & Tyson visited USA for the first time at the Culture Collide festival in October 2014. The Huffington Post marked their San Francisco concert as "refreshingly unique", whilst Buzzbands LA said their LA-concert "perhaps made rock music as intimate as it could get".

The band released the first single Tied Up on 7 May 2015, followed by No Fun My Head on 4 September. CMJ premiered the second single a week early, announcing the track list and release date of the upcoming album. The album was scheduled to be released 25 September.