Blue Coat Venture is a solo project created by Gustav Löfstrand. He writes that he last Spring was wandering around in Stockholm dressed in his father’s old blue coat. His reflections during these walks landed in the decision to really do something about his own music creation and to go all the way with it. He and a friend built the studio Lärkskogen at the centre of Stockholm and he started recording his own songs, inspired by the sounds from the city.
You can hear the first results here below, two singles he released recently, which will eventually lead us to his debut album release on the 13th of April. It’s beautiful, soft, very soft singer/songwriter pop and I can sense the influence from artists like James Taylor och Nick Drake, which he names as sources of inspiration when he grew up. The songs feel like comforting songs, like soft pillows to land in when life feels rough.
Soul of Gaia has just released the new song “Roam”. It’s a beautiful space ballad where we are guided among the stars by Sanna’s wonderful, warm vocals, a piano and various sounds from space recorded by NASA. A build-up song that is allowed to grow slowly and which lands in a magnificent spiral galaxy rather than an exploding super nova. The recording was made together with Jon Rinneby (Låtsaspoeten, Turn Off Your Television) and the video was directed by Pablo Fernández.
Today Adna is releasing the single “Lonesome”, which is another taste of her forthcoming album “Run, Lucifer” (release March 18th). Since she’s so great I take the opportunity to add another two songs. First “Living”, which was released in November as the first single from “Run, Lucifer” and then “Thank God For Sending Demons”, which is a wonderful interpretation of Kleerup’s song.
The electronica trio Blänk have released their first single in three years, “Tears Run Dry”. It’s a beautifully melancholic story, told with only ambient pads and hip hop-beats as support. They recorded the song together with Noonie Bao in a cabin somewhere in Lapland, in the north of Sweden, and maybe you can hear some of the vast open landscapes with an accompanying typical sadness in the large atmospheric sound. A new album, “Only Built For Northern Lights”, has been recorded and will be released on the 9th of March next year.
Wildhart is a trio from Göteborg who today are releasing their first single “Stuck In a Second”. And it’s a fascinating debut song they show us, at first sight a melodic electro pop track, but which is not built in a traditional way at all. It feels rather like a short theater play in three acts, told with ambient backgrounds, an almost Björk-like expression from the singer Ylva Holmdahl and dramatic turns, careful but still confident. I’m quite curious to see what comes next.
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