Posts Tagged ‘Sweden’

BOYS – ” All My Friends “

Posted: May 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Second single from Boys’ upcoming EP Love on Tour, due May 20th via PNKSLM Recordings.

“growing from the tender opening sketches in to something far more dynamic as it expands across four-minutes of somewhat scorched sentiments, Karlsson’s glorious vocal the most faithful of protagonists, swooning and sweeping its way through the entire thing”

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Listen to lead single “Happy Hour”

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Punk Slime Recordings are proud to present the new EP from the Swedish indie pop act Boys with lead single “Happy Hour”.  Boys is the solo project of HOLY guitarist Nora Karlsson and her new EP Love on Tour is the follow-up to last year’s debut EP Kind of Hurt. While Kind of Hurt were more or less home-recorded demos, Love on Tour is a step up on the production side while continuing to showcase Karlsson’s talents as a songwriter, with a sound somewhere in between Sarah Records and current day US indie pop, intimate and affecting lo-fi pop.

The lead single and opening track “Happy Hour” was written after returning home to Sweden following an intense UK tour with HOLY last fall, dealing with the post-tour depression and settling in to the regular life of a 20 year old in Sweden, while the rest of the EP deals with subjects such as longing and homesickness. Love on Tour was recorded and performed by Nora herself. except for HOLY frontman Hannes Ferm handling drum duties on “Happy Hour” and “In My Mind”.

Live Boys expands into the quintet of Nora Karlsson (guitar/vocals), Hannes Ferm (drums), Anna Rauhala of Swedish indie pop act Üni Foreman on guitar, Amanda Ferm on bass and Lina Högström (aka Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter Skator) on keyboard.

“once you come across their bright, buoyant brand of pop with just the right amount of shoegaze, you won’t be disappointed”

HEART / DANCER – ” Under “

Posted: May 10, 2016 in MUSIC
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Linnéa Atieno and Joakim Buddee met last year and connected immediately through music. – I am a drawer, Linnéa said, and started to draw synth riffs on Joakim’s laptop. The very next day they met up in what would later be their own studio. That was the beginning of a collaboration that is leading towards the release of their debut album

Heart/Dancer is a duo consisting of Linnéa Atieno (@linneaatieno) and Joakim Buddee (@foreverandeverandeverandever)

 

LITTLE CHILDREN – ” Another Day In Travelling In Darkness ” EP

Posted: May 8, 2016 in MUSIC
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Swedish musician Linus Lutti and his band Little Children have just released a fantastic new single, “Every Little Light,” and it’s one of his most up-tempo songs to date. Lutti has been around our radar for a number of years, and while we are big fans of the introspective heartbreaking numbers we have come to know and love, it is great to hear the sounds of unbridled enthusiasm in the song’s rock n’ roll riffs.

Linus has stated ”The song is about running away. Letting go of everything and getting out. Erasing your whole life, starting from scratch. It’s about the end of something but also about a beginning.”

This is something we can all relate to, that and his recent turn to the music of Bryan Adams for inspiration. “Every Little Light” definitely has some “Summer of 69” vibes going for sure,but when I first heard it I thought it was War On Drugs  and there’s nothing wrong with that.

 

BENJAMIN FOLKE THOMAS – ” Let Her Down “

Posted: April 21, 2016 in MUSIC
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Benjamin is a young artist whose time has come. His third album, Rogue State Of Mind, released by Bucketfull Of Brains on xxx represents the summation of the talents of this remarkable young Swede. Ben was born in February 1988, during the coldest winter recorded in Sweden in the 80s, and grew up on a small island west of Gothenburg in the Kattegat Sea. The seeds of many of his more autobiographical songs were sown during this formative period.

Ben started out playing drums at the age of 12 in a skatepunk band that rapidly developed into grunge, due to an obsession with Kurt Cobain and Nirvana. But then Ben started listening to folk music and from there he progressed to Bob Dylan and Townes van Zandt. “Sad guys with guitars have always been my involuntary preference”, says Ben, but you could hardly describe him as sad.

His acoustic guitar skills astonishing, while his songs reveal depths of emotion and stories from a young life that has been lived hard. This is a man who has loved and lost and channels his feelings into his work. His uniquely engaging stage presence displays the kind of humour sadly missing in the work of so many introspective singer-songwriters.

Benjamin Folke Thomas: electric and acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Henning Sernhede: electric and acoustic guitar, lap steel, keys, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, BVs
Johannes Mattsson: electric and stand up bass,keys and BVs
Jonas Abrahamsson: drums, percussion, most keys and BVs

The TALLEST MAN on EARTH – ” A Short Film about Dark Bird is Home “

Posted: March 23, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Kristian Matsson moves further away from his folkier earlier records on much of his fourth album, going for americana type stadium rock in a War on Drugs or Tom Petty vein with backing vocals & big choruses.

The strong melodies and skilled songwriting are still present however,  although the subject matter is often deeper & darker than we’re used to the album is mostly a major key, fun and enjoyable listen. opener ‘Fields Of Our Home’ is a cracking introduction to his widescreen new direction whereas ‘Little Nowhere Towns’ is solely backed by piano, so the mood is nicely broken up by stylistic changes. “choirs, keyboards & drums make well-judged accompaniments to his stark style”

HONEYMILK – ” Psychrocker ” feat De Montevert

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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Honeymilk, however, have an even more intense life in Stockholm. While skulking the bars and venues of their city, they observed that one musician we all know: full of hubris and swanky clothes, posturing before practising, talking without thinking, thinking about everything but what really matters: music. So Honeymilk decided to make a song about this Honeymilk sound like a smiley-faced flashback to Manchester’s La Hacienda glory days, cut through with The Strokes-like suaveness and grit. With a smack-full of drums, overlayed by clasping guitars and finalised by Julian Casablancas-like vocals, their music comes together to create a qualitative sonic rock melody.”
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A youthful Charlatans gone wayward after sneaking lessons from Primal Scream, Soup Dragons and The Stone Roses

Honeymilk are a psychedelic/indie-rock act from Stockholm who have recently been gathering media attention by the likes of Q Magazine, Music Week and KEXP Radio. The band consists of Marcus, Albin, Nikki and Erik and play a blend between The Strokes, Ty Segall, Wilco and Velvets. The Sweden-based quartet are about quality and energy alike.

After having spent countless nights on the sticky dance floors of overpriced bars in Stockholm where posturing musicians polish their image, Honeymilk have had enough! ‘Phychrocker’ started out as a protest song against the superficiality of the Swedish music scene.

Honeymilk wanted to write a song about “people with more arrogance than they merit. People with a bigger idea of themselves, than their talent can live up to,” the band says. When they had finished writing the song, they came to the conclusion – to their greatest disappointment – that they actually wrote it about no other than themselves. “Psychrocker is simply a tribute to Honeymilk.”

The sound of Honeymilk glides across the room in a smoothly flowing wave as the guitar paints colourful rainbows for the ears to enjoy. A firmly anchored bass and percussion gives the output a rolling direction of travel, whilst the vocal calmly brings the elements together as though folding a mousse together.

‘Psychrocker’ features de Montevert, stage moniker for Ellinor Nilsson. It was produced by Mats Björke (Mando Diao, Thorsten Flinck, etc.) and was mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Honeymilk is Nikki Nyberg (Guitar) and Marcus Admund (Vocals), Tomas Hellberg (Bass), Erik Fritz (Drums),

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PALE HONEY – ” Over Your Head “

Posted: December 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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Official video for “Over Your Head” by Pale Honey. A great first album. I always enjoy finding new music, and these ladies are pretty good for a first album. I look forward to seeing what they do in the future, especially with the beautiful white Fender Jaguar the singer and guitarist has. The album is angsty, but not juvenile or whiny. Overall, a good album.

Excellent debut! A stripped-down alternative sound. There’s a lot of emotional range, the highs and lows of life and love, they joys and miseries of relationship…but the overall result to me is far more liberating than down, which is a good thing.
Other tracks “Fish” and “Youth” are tops. No poor tracks and the sound is varied and experimental, Pale Honey aren’t plying the same tunings and stylings over and over. Going forward might do well to compose more songs, and limit the recorded tracks as much as possible to obvious A list tunes, for an even better result.

PALE HONEY – ” Tease “

Posted: December 20, 2015 in MUSIC
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There’s a controlled power to Pale Honey’s sound, which despite conveying a certain ‘cooler than thou’ sense of black leather and shades also has an undercurrent of knowing playfulness. Hailing from Gothenburg Sweden, Pale Honey are Tuva Lodmark (guitar / vocals) and Nelly Daltrey (drums) they’ve already released a wonderful EP ‘Fiction’ in 2014 and their self-titled debut built on their early promise. Taken from Gothenburg based duo Pale Honey´s debut album “Pale Honey” which came out in May.

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ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF – ” Come Wander With Me/Deliverance “

Posted: December 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Sweden’s bad vibes queen” and who, as a musician, is capable of creating compositions so vast and amazingly immersive that they swallow you whole – organ-led drone pieces that are like stepping into a dense moorland fog, only to be met with a soaring, surrounding vocal that somehow feels as enormous as it does contained.

Whilst there is an overtly ‘dark’ tone to what Anna Von Hausswolff produces, often because of the naturally gloomy tone of the organ used – along with a propensity for using drone techniques to create funeral-like churns – it’s really only a surface level assumption (and largely inaccurate) to associate it with any inherent bleakness. You only have to look at ‘Mountains Crave’ from her 2013 album ‘Ceremony’ to see the sort of pop-tinged material she is capable of producing, or any number of moments on her latest record, which go from doom metal blasts to inspired, almost traditionally structured song craft. Her most recent album, ‘The Miraculous’, opens with a booming pipe organ, one that blasts like an angry foghorn, like a boat’s off-course warning signal as it sails towards an inevitable collision. The album, however, is not inspired by an impending sense of doom; it is more a sonic realisation of the power of nature, imagination and improvisation.

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SEA LION – ” If My Baby “

Posted: December 9, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sea Lion Desolate Stars

Desolate Stars is a slurry record full of static and desire. It runs hot and cold like a feverish chill. Consider, cherish the sea breeze stunner “Room,” the drenched-sweat desolation of “Plains,” and the final, flashing conviction of  the title track “Desolate Star.” If the beach could talk back to us about every torrid love affair and every tender moment it’s contained, those stories would sound like “Desolate Stars”. In that way, it feels like Sea Lion has become our translator; these songs hum like a language our mostly liquid bodies respond to intuitively.

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‘If My Baby’ is the third track to be taken from Sea Lion’s forthcoming debut album ‘Desolate Stars’ released Friday August 28th.

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