In October The Chrysler released the album “Hands Across the Sea”, which is their fourth album and their first one in six year, though it is the first album I hear with them. The band was started in 2001 by Pelle Lindroth and Anders Rudström, who today form a sextet toghether with the other members Nya Sampan, Martin Sörbom, Peppe Rudström and the productive, especially this year, Henrik von Euler. The record is quite a pleasant acqaintance with a sound that comes with both a retro flavour as well as an indie-roughness from today. Americana and country inspired pop with overall strong, melodic songs is my closest description, and with a variation where I’m reminded of the melancholic sixties as well as Dylan in the seventies. Here are two songs.

The Chrysler on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara

I’m wrapping up this Friday with some great rock’n’roll. It’s Terrible Feelings, hailing from Malmö, who serves us this from their latest EP “Backwood”. There’s energy, attitude, some punk nerve, melodies, a spacy lovely sound and a wonderful rock voice from Manuela Iwansson.

Terrible Feelings’ site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Soundcloud

Karmacloud is the name of a Danish-Swedish-Irish trio with the members Rumle Langdal, Linnéa Lundgren and Daniel Forde. We meet acoustic guitars, beautiful vocal harmonies and folk vibes that make me think of CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell and the early seventies. So far they’ve release a single and an EP. Listen to two tracks here below.

Karmaclouds site – on Facebook – on Bandcamp

Earlier this year the hip hop band Skuggan Av Svampen released their second album “Stackars dig”, which I’m going to play a couple of songs from. It’s a playful, groovy album where they add a number of styles to the mix, like soft soul, reggae, R’n’B, electro pop and other stuff. It’s laidback with a lot of humour and a row of colleagues are helping out on the 13 tracks, for example Jeepstarr, Östblockarn, Fubbik and Kollektivet.

Skuggan Av Svampen on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – på Rara

Here’s a couple of songs from Jonas Linngård’s project Kontroll. It’s about instrumental, melodic electro pop, where he describes the first song, “Home of the Wild”, as “Amiga 500 Bubble Gum Electro Pop”.

Kontroll’s site – on Facebook – on Soundcloud