Maybe it was dreams about playing at the biggest arenas, or maybe it was the songs that demanded it. In any case,  Molotov Jive hailing from Karlstad, went to California and to the star producer Sylvia Massy to record their third album “Storm”.

They recorded in February last year and recently, in March, they released the album. And there’s no doubt that this is pop and rock made for the big arenas. Such an ambition can easily end up in a big yawn, if you can’t back it up with energy, personality and great songs, but I don’t think that they fall into any pits here, and that they have created a really good album.

It’s grand and full of energy, first of all in the first half of the album, until they slow it down with the most quiet song on the album “Just Leave”, giving us a well-needed break before they speed up again .The feeling is a bit like U2 when they are as most energetic but with a darker post punk vibe from the late eighties as the foundation. The songs that sticks the most with me is “Friendship”, which you can listen to and download here below, and “Manhattan”.

And of course. How did they come up with the name Molotov Jive? They write that they wanted a band name that felt explosive, something that signaled fire. “We thought that it should be ‘like dancing on fire.’ Do the Molotov Jive”.

You can listen to the album on Spotify and on Wimp. Follow them on Facebook and on their site.

Friendship