The duo Mackaper consists of the two organ players Markus Hulthén and Per Nyström. In the beginning of February they released their debut album “When All Is Sad and Dawn”.
It’s about instrumental music, where of course the organs are the main attraction, but they are accompanied by strings, drum machines, horns and other instruments. I’m reminded of prog-rock from the seventies but also of minimalistic synth pop, maybe the two strongest influences on the album. But overall it feels quite varied, where elements of jazz and swedish folk melancholy also fit in together with strong melodic themes and a nice atmosphere.
You can find Mackaper on their site or on Myspace. The albumet “When All Is Sad and Dawn” is available on Spotify. Here are a couple of songs from the album:
Wallenberg is a project that is run by Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson in cooperation with various musicians and artists. Recently the EP “Red In the House of White” was released, and you can listen to a track from the EP here below.
On the surface it can be described as a minimalistic, alternative electronica, where I, without hearing a direct likeness, get associations to Lykke Li. There’s an innocent, naive feeling to it all, where of course also the images, the art and the clothes play a part. The red and the white, check patterns, elephants, some eastern vibes give a feeling of mystique like it’s a riddle I should try to solve somehow.
Here’s a song from Little Big Adventure, “Happiest Times”, taken from “The Hateful Eye EP”. The video maker Varelsen has also made a special video for the song.
Today I’ll show you some music from Yamon Yamons debut album, “Wilderlessness”, which was released in January this year. They present their indie pop, where the airy massive guitars and the nice guitar melodies are in focus. Here below you can listen to two songs from the singel “The Darker Place”, which was released in conjunction with the album.
The last time I wrote about the musical adventurer Peter Lindström, he had just been out on a 3 month long tour in the USA. And this time he has recently returned from an even longer journey with concerts in Japan, Nya Zeeland and Australia.
He also has a new album to show us, “Petrel Petering”, which I thought I could present here in this post. It’s an 11 track long album, where he continues to explore the classic american singer/songwriter music. Add to this some blues and country songs like “Jesus’ Blood Ain’t Failed Me Yet”, a great track which almost gives me an impression like it’s Bowie singing Jaques Brel with country sound.
Peter has that kind of voice that makes it’s way inside of me. There is a warmth, a nerve and a precense that feels very real. With his story in the back of my mind, it gets even more interesting. Listen for yourself in a couple of tracks from “Petrel Petering”:
My Sunrise’ light and to me somewhat summerish pop is maybe not the first that comes to mind during this long winter. But with yet another snowstorm approaching, maybe it’s just what is needed right now.
The band serves nice melodies in a sound that reminds of the eighties, with some New Order vibes. Listen here to a couple of tracks. You can find My Sunrise on Myspace.
In the eighties the two big musical antipoles were hard rock and synth music. Of course there were loads of other types of music, but it felt like it was important to choose side here, at least for us guys. I chose hard rock.
And it was of course impossible then to admit that you liked a song that contained a lot of synth sounds (seems like we made exceptions for the hard rock bands that used synths…); that would have been embarrasing.
Of course i liked a lot of synth songs anyway, in secrecy, and this music has come to play just as an important role for me as all other music from this era. But now I’ve grown up (eh, maybe not really…), and We & Lisa is a band that reminds me a lot of this period.
The first feeling is Pet Shop Boys, but it’s more basic and original than that. Simpler, not so pompous and with a focus on good melodies, a little like the synth music was in the beginning. And with a dreamy, nice feeling.
You can find We & Lisa on their site and on their Myspace page you can listen to more tracks. Here are a couple of songs.
I was impressed by the Norrköping band Class of Kill’em High. With songs that make me feel like I’m somewhere in the borderland between Foo Fighters and The Strokes, they make their own thing out of this and serves a nice variation with a lot of fantasy.
From exuberating, dirty indie-rock’n'roll in “Ultima Hombre” to melodic tunes in a garage-indie gown, to the suggestive, ambient “Lemondrop”. Dynamic songs also, that use Markus Pallof’s cool voice to the fullest.
Class of Kill’em High was formed already in 2003, but split upp the year after. In 2009 they reformed in this new outfit. You can find Class of Kill’em High on Myspace. Here are a couple of tracks:
A little more than a year ago Dubious Quip released his singel “Obedient Minds”, and in the end of last year he finally presented the follow-up album with the same name. And the seven tracks on the album feel like a great continuation of the journey that he started with the song “Obedient Minds”. With mr Quip’s own mix of hip hop, reggae and soul, it’s laidback, cool and nice to listen to.
And it gets even better with the contribution from a personal favourite, Ulf Ljusberg, who visits with his song “Make It Right”, where he also sings. Pitz and R.A.W. also contributes in a couple of tracks with a really cool rap, which fits perfectly with the atmosphere on the album.
You can follow Dubious Quip on his site, where you also can listen to the other tracks. The album is also available on his Bandcamp page.
Roí Höttur means Robin Hood in Icelandic, but beside the name I can’t find any obvious connections to Iceland or icelandic music. Instead the band serve us, what I would like to call, psychadelia with a blues heart. And psychadelia then as a trip back to the times of the early Pink Floyd.
The Doors can also be sensed in their music as well as, to some extent, Led Zeppelin and all this can be heard in their debut. A debut, which is, in a nice psychadelia tradition, a 12 minute long piece. Great fun to listen to.
Since Our First Guitar is a band that grew out of friendship in the early teens. Step by step the band and their music was formed, and finally in 2008 they decided to make a serious effort. With that said, they locked themselves up in their studio, located in a barn outside of Lund, Sweden, to create the first album.
This debut album, “Sound of Trees”, was released in the end of 2009 and you can listen to a couple songs here below.
It’s a rather soft indierock where they have created a very nice sound atmosphere to be inside. Pleasant, is word that comes to my mind. Listen here see if you agree with me. You can find more of Since Our First Guitar on Myspace.
Yes I Am, which I wrote about in December has released a new EP, “Alarm”. You can listen and download the songs on their Bandcamp page. Here’s “Let You Out”:
Dark, heavy, powerful and monotone is my impression of Isobel & November’s music. They released their album “The Ghostwater Gospel” in the end of last year. Ten heavy tracks where I have a hard time to find anything to compare with, and which end with the brilliant and more than 15 min long “She Came Down the Mountain”, a song you can listen to below.
“She Came Down the Mountain” was recorded live in an old church, which I can really hear and feel in this mighty rock sermon.
You can find Isobel & November on Myspace and on Facebook. On Spotify you can listen to the entire album “The Ghostwater Gospel”.
Kate and After participated with a song in our Christmas special in December and I thought it was time to listen to more tracks from the band. Below you can find two songs to listen to and download.
I think that Kate and After radiates a joy of playing and an energy that is contagious. It’s about indie pop, but there is a feeling in the sound; some of it because of the hammon organ; that gives me a lot of retro vibes. I also have to mention Magnus Lindquists vocals and his expression that send out that extra which makes Kate and After stand out.
The Idle Hands started out some years ago, but it was not until 2008 that they got their current formation. During 2009 they released the album “Dark Rooms” and in the end of last year the singel “Hearts”.
They present a very nice mix of guitar driven indie rock and the grand pop that bands like Coldplay stands for. Listen for yourself here below to the singel “Hearts” and the title track from the album “Dark Rooms”.
Last week the Gothenburg band The Berndt released their debut album “GBGBG”. My expectations were rather high before the release, but I wasn’t disappointed. Charming and characteristic is the least I can say about The Berndt’s energic punk-pop-indie.
With their crazy playfulness, catchy sound and of course Emil Lundin’s special voice, this really is a unique band. Emil seems to be able to do whatever he likes with the vocals and it comes out great.
The Berndt is best experienced live, and chances are that you might be able to see them soon, as they now launch their european tour that runs through Sweden, Germany, Austria and Italy.
In the Autumn Magnus Weideskog released his debut EP and any day now his first full length album, “Unga hjärtan” (Sony Music), will be available. Magnus has been compared with Ted Gärdestad, which I agree with to some extent, especially cosidering his voice.
One description could be soft pop in Swedish. Delicate lyrics that never get trivial and a production that’s exemplary minimalistic which gives the music an honest and close expression. It’ll be interesting to listen to the new album soon.
You can find Magnus on his site, on Myspace and on Facebook. On Spotify you can listen to the EP and the new singel “Förlåt” from “Unga hjärtan”. Here’s the video and the audio track to “20 år”:
Labbet serves us some soft, cool, laidback electronica. “Excellent music for driving a car or strolling through the park on a Sunday afternoon”, he writes, and I quite agree. Really nice music to listen in the car, driving along a dark night.
The songs below are from the first singel release “I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone”, and on 1980 Records’ site you can also listen to some new tracks with lead vocals by Russell Morgan.
It feels great to listen to Fredrik Malmgren’s, aka Apgeneralen, bluesy voice in this rock, which feels like it could be recorded from a sweaty rock jam in the first halv of the seventies. But it’s not quite that simple overall.
The Medicinal Storytellers don’t hesitate to mix in some Reggae, latino influences and instrumental rock, and without losing themselves. I think that they are great example of a band that can find their own identity within musical areas where thousands of bands have been playing for many years.
In spring 2009 they recorded the album “It’s Medicinal Time” and here below you can listen to two tracks from these recordnings. Listen some more on their Myspace page.
“My ambition is to always leave someone with a feeling, to be a feeling and to move somone. You should for a moment be able to walk away from normal life and just be inside the music”. The words are Lennart Lindgren’s, and I think that he does a good job at it. For me it means a trip back to my childhood’s troubadours with beautiful melodies and beautiful poetic lyrics.
It feels dreamy and very soft, and it’s a little like putting on a warm jacket, to go out for a long walk in the snowy landscape and dream away for a while.
You can find more of Lennart’s music on his Myspace page.
Sidechild is the story about the songs that disappeared in a computer crash, but was born again, reconstructed from sketches and memories. It’s also the tale about the songs that turned out to be the real love children, and that made Pontus go for his side project, his own music. Hence the name Sidechild.
Even though he got a fantastic start in 2007, as an opener for The Magic Numbers on their Swedish tour, it has taken a long time to finish the debut album. But after failed record deals, discontent over productions and songs, he started all over again and finally found his way home again. And like he did it!
“Music For Children” is the name of the debut album that came out of all this, and it will be released in the end of January. And I can really hear that it is a love child; there is a warmth and a feeling right through the record that makes it’s way quite bit into my soul. It’s often about pop and and melodies that really gets to you, and I walk away with a number of new hooks spinning around in my head.
There is a liberating, minimalistic style in the album that I like. It feels like that they have carefully added exactly those instruments that is needed in each track. And yet they succeed to combine classic soul and pop arrangements with more modern vibes, and with variation.
In the end it is Sidechild’s voice that is the strongest part of it all. And it’s very special. The closest I can think of is how Bowie sounded in some songs during the seventies. It’s dramatic, naked, fragile and what makes maybe the most naked songs the best ones. Like “Come On Come On” you can listen to below.
Follow Sidechild on his site and listen to more tracks there.
Zucchini Drive released their third album this autumn. The album is called “Shotgun Rules” and oozes of heavy electronica, hip hop and rock, not to mention som really nice pop hooks. I enter a dark and dense soundscape and even if I feel the same vibes there is quite some variation from track to track.
The vocals are excellent and are performed by a range of invited guest artists such as Marina Gasolina, Christy Brewster, M Sayyid, Seraphim et. al.
The albumet is released on the digital music company Marathon of Dope, run by Zucchini Drive together with other artists like Pip Skid and Birdapres from Canada. The idea is to release all music for free. Albums, remixes, videos, instrumental versions and so on will be available for everyone, and with this they hope to spread their music as much as possible and then get support from those who like it.
I have just woken up from the Christmas coma, and I felt it was time to present some new music again, here on Meadowmusic. And first up is Jörgen Kjellgren, more known as guitar player and songwriter in the band Oh Laura. I have spent some time listening to Jörgen’s upcoming debut album “Noir Syndrom”, a warm experience in this biting winter cold.
It’s darkly poetic and I like Jörgen’s almost low-voiced way of singing, exploring lyrcs that I can feel. At the same time there’s a warm, mostly acoustic music shroud where Jörgen like a modern troubadour tells us about “guilt, deception, loneliness and lost faith”.
The album will be released in February, and here below you can listen to the first singel from the record, “Han har gjort det igen” as well as the song “Edie Brickell”. You can also watch the video to the song “Han har gjort det igen”, directed by Simon Yemane.
Sibling Sense is an interesting band. If you want to simplify things, you could say that they are a post grunge band, but it’s not that simple, as always. They can produce a grand, dramatic rock like in “Lights out”, but they don’t hesitate to bring out a more dirty rock sound like in the dark, suggestive “Frogs”.
These two tracks were released in November, and you can listen to them here below. I have also added the video to an earlier song, “Blossom”. Discover more of Sibling Sense on their Myspace page.
“We All Die” is the name of New Found Land’s debut album, which was released late spring earlier this year. Initiated by Anna Roxenholt and from the start a duo, the band has grown into a group of sometimes up to 8 musicians.
“We All Die” is a varied album with one foot in a modern indie sound, where the band has been compared to Feist, Loney Dear and Postal Service, and another foot in folk music with a hint of jazz. One thing that definitely stand out with this album is the clear, beautiful melancholy, here below exemplified with the song “All the Nights”, a song that also gives me some Joni Mitchell-vibes.
Well, let’s celebrate Christmas this year too here on Meadowmusic. And then with some Christmas songs you may not have heard before, at least not in the version you’ll find here.
The tracks we presented last year are of course good for this Christmas too.
Maybe you will find a new Christmas favourite or maybe you will find an artist you want to listen more to.
“Lika lätt som att vissla en melodi (lika lätt blåser livet förbi)”, Bangalore (Gbg) calls his EP, which was released this autumn. Behind the name Bangalore (Gbg) you’ll find Tomas Persson Carlberg; a pop troubadour you could call him.
Naked and revealing lyrics, like confessions before a new start, are accompanied by beautiful melodies and arrangements according to the principle “less is more”. It’s peaceful and emotional and plenty of room for Tomas’ sensitive voice and the naked lyrics.
You can listen to the EP on Bangalore (Gbg)’s Myspace page, Facebook page or on Reverbnation, where you also can download the tracks. He has promised to present new songs this winter, so you can watch out for them on his pages.
Ola Angleby is a quite busy artist. In addition to the duo Swedish Shoes, which I wrote about in spring, and the band Jane Gulliou, he also has a band in his own name. Different from the other projects, in this one he sings in Swedish instead of English.
Their sound is also different, here in their own mix of grand mellow pop and young indie pop/rock. But they don’t dig too deep in the melancholy, but get up front on stage shouting out their frustrations.These skilled musicians released an EP earlier this year and you can listen to the songs on Ola Angleby’s Myspace page.
EP’s Trailerpark was formed already in 1999 by Eric Palmqvist. With former members like Magnus Tingsek, Björn Yttling et. al, they have a history of some releases, but nothing during the last five years. Up until now, as they released the five-track EP “Black Heart” in the end of October.
And it is a comeback that definitely makes me wish for more. It’s music with country vibes, maybe in the direction of folk rock, which every now and then takes me to the domains of Neil Young and CSN&Y. Especially in the mellow, fateful-sounding title track “Black Heart”. In “Black Heart” they are also joined by Frida Öhrn and Christian Kjellvander on backing vocals.
You can find EP’s Trailerpark on their Myspace page and on their blog. If you have Spotify you can listen to the EP there. Here below you can listen to and download the song “Black Heart”.
The videon to “Black Heart” is directed by Mats Udd, who, I think, has a nice, special way of telling a story around a song. If you like the video I recommend you to take a look at Mats Udd’s Vimeo page.
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The duo Mackaper consists of the two organ players Markus Hulthén and Per Nyström. In the beginning of February they released their debut album “When All Is Sad and Dawn”.
Wallenberg is a project that is run by Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson in cooperation with various musicians and artists. Recently the EP “Red In the House of White” was released, and you can listen to a track from the EP here below.
Today I’ll show you some music from Yamon Yamons debut album, “Wilderlessness”, which was released in January this year. They present their indie pop, where the airy massive guitars and the nice guitar melodies are in focus. Here below you can listen to two songs from the singel “The Darker Place”, which was released in conjunction with the album.
The last time 
My Sunrise’ light and to me somewhat summerish pop is maybe not the first that comes to mind during this long winter. But with yet another snowstorm approaching, maybe it’s just what is needed right now.
In the eighties the two big musical antipoles were hard rock and synth music. Of course there were loads of other types of music, but it felt like it was important to choose side here, at least for us guys. I chose hard rock.
I was impressed by the Norrköping band Class of Kill’em High. With songs that make me feel like I’m somewhere in the borderland between 
A little more than a year ago Dubious Quip released 
Roí Höttur means Robin Hood in Icelandic, but beside the name I can’t find any obvious connections to Iceland or icelandic music. Instead the band serve us, what I would like to call, psychadelia with a blues heart. And psychadelia then as a trip back to the times of the early 
Since Our First Guitar is a band that grew out of friendship in the early teens. Step by step the band and their music was formed, and finally in 2008 they decided to make a serious effort. With that said, they locked themselves up in their studio, located in a barn outside of Lund, Sweden, to create the first album.
Dark, heavy, powerful and monotone is my impression of Isobel & November’s music. They released their album “The Ghostwater Gospel” in the end of last year. Ten heavy tracks where I have a hard time to find anything to compare with, and which end with the brilliant and more than 15 min long “She Came Down the Mountain”, a song you can listen to below.
Kate and After participated with a song in our 
The Idle Hands started out some years ago, but it was not until 2008 that they got their current formation. During 2009 they released the album “Dark Rooms” and in the end of last year the singel “Hearts”.
Last week the Gothenburg band The Berndt released their debut album “GBGBG”. My expectations were rather high before the release, but I wasn’t disappointed. Charming and characteristic is the least I can say about The Berndt’s energic punk-pop-indie.
In the Autumn Magnus Weideskog released his debut EP and any day now his first full length album, “Unga hjärtan” (Sony Music), will be available. Magnus has been compared with 
Labbet serves us some soft, cool, laidback electronica. “Excellent music for driving a car or strolling through the park on a Sunday afternoon”, he writes, and I quite agree. Really nice music to listen in the car, driving along a dark night.
It feels great to listen to Fredrik Malmgren’s, aka Apgeneralen, bluesy voice in this rock, which feels like it could be recorded from a sweaty rock jam in the first halv of the seventies. But it’s not quite that simple overall.
If you liked 
“My ambition is to always leave someone with a feeling, to be a feeling and to move somone. You should for a moment be able to walk away from normal life and just be inside the music”. The words are Lennart Lindgren’s, and I think that he does a good job at it. For me it means a trip back to my childhood’s troubadours with beautiful melodies and beautiful poetic lyrics.
Even though he got a fantastic start in 2007, as an opener for 
Zucchini Drive released their third album this autumn. The album is called “Shotgun Rules” and oozes of heavy electronica, hip hop and rock, not to mention som really nice pop hooks. I enter a dark and dense soundscape and even if I feel the same vibes there is quite some variation from track to track.
I have just woken up from the Christmas coma, and I felt it was time to present some new music again, here on Meadowmusic. And first up is Jörgen Kjellgren, more known as guitar player and songwriter in the band 
Sibling Sense is an interesting band. If you want to simplify things, you could say that they are a post grunge band, but it’s not that simple, as always. They can produce a grand, dramatic rock like in “Lights out”, but they don’t hesitate to bring out a more dirty rock sound like in the dark, suggestive “Frogs”.
“We All Die” is the name of New Found Land’s debut album, which was released late spring earlier this year. Initiated by Anna Roxenholt and from the start a duo, the band has grown into a group of sometimes up to 8 musicians.
“Lika lätt som att vissla en melodi (lika lätt blåser livet förbi)”, Bangalore (Gbg) calls his EP, which was released this autumn. Behind the name Bangalore (Gbg) you’ll find Tomas Persson Carlberg; a pop troubadour you could call him.
EP’s Trailerpark was formed already in 1999 by Eric Palmqvist. With former members like 
