Today This Is Head released another single, “Repetition”, from their album “The Album ID”. And this time it’s something quite different and extra interesting they serve us. As it turns out the original song contains multiple shapes which are now revealed.
They write that if you listen carefully you can distinguish several ideas within the song, seemingly incompatible with each other. For one you can hear that the song has a rock drive which could be developed further, there is also a streak of dance rhythms throughout the song and finally there’s the ambient part, the chirping of birds as they describe it. For this release they picked these three elements out of the song and let them form three new songs, and added also the original song of course. A fascinating and fun single idea. Listen to all four versions here below where they’ve labeled the different versions as radio (rock), slow (ambient) and dance and then the original last. You can also watch a video to the radio version, where they clearly show what repetition means if you’re standing by the pool side. :)
Violet Vessel is a project created by Jimmy Sok, hailing from Lund. He released the EP “Heart” earlier this year, an EP he recorded in his bedroom during a year. He’s created a rather personal sound, like a blend of indie pop with playful guitar melodies and a more dense, repetitive shoegaze with distanced dubbed vocals. There’s some mood shifts on the EP from the dreamy, easygoing “Summersong” to the harder “Loud”, but there’s a red thread from the vocals and the room which makes it stick together just fine. Listen here below in two songs.
Akiine, or Akiine Kivelä Ngarambe which is her full name, grew up in Sweden (on Blueberry Mountains whereever that is?), but is now living in London. Her first single, “Sunglassey”, was released in Summer and the second one, “Frid”, a couple of weeks ago. It’s a dreamy vibe over these pop songs, emphasised by Akiine’s soft, innocent-sounding vocals, like if it was taken from a film about an imaginary place, maybe Blueberry Mountains?
We could listen to a collaboration between Fredrik Jonassson and Jenny Gabrielsson Mare earlier this year on Silencio Stampa’s latest album “Kalejdoskop“, where they made a song together. They liked the result so much, that they felt like they wanted to do something more than just a song. The duo project White Birches was then created, an indie electronic constellation where Jenny handles the vocals, the guitars and the piano while Fredrik takes care of the electronica. Their plan is to give us a taste now and then with some songs, and later in Spring to release a debut EP. Here’s the first creation “The End of the Line”, a very promising start indeed, with a dark, suggestive pop and a beautiful chorus melody.
Now it’s time to chill, and we do that with the young Stockholm duo Alchem’s debut EP “Gleam”. Here you can dive into five tracks where each one explores a new sound space. Here’s one one of them.
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