Here’s a piece of grand sounding pop from the band Seaside Heights in the shape of their debut single “Turnover”. Maybe a little in the direction of The National, without the gloominess, but rather uplifting instead. It seems like the band is working on a debut album, but no dates has been announced yet.

Seaside Heights site – on Facebook – on Soundcloud

Earlier this year The Australian band  Alex Watts & The Foreign Tongue announced a remix competition for their single “Warned”. The winner was the Swedish producer Lars Rosenblad with his interesting remix which takes the song to an entirely different place, with verses that breathes of Bowie in the ambience and which cracks up in an almost power ballad-sounding chorus. Quite far away from the orginial with it’s Crowded House-vibing arrangement. Listen here below to both versions.

Mankind, hailing from Stockholm, has released this garage-vibing single and video “Blood, Sugar”. Interestingly the song is produced by Gordon Raphael, mostly known for his productions of The Strokes early albums. It’s a great video too, made by Johan Stolpe, which you can see here below. The band has earlier released the EP “New Bag”, which certainly also is worth a listen, also with a garage sound but with a more sixties vibe to them, like if they were fetched from one of the “Nuggets from the psychadelic era”-albums. I’d love to hear a debut album from this interesting band, which they’ve spoken about before, but I haven’t seen any schedule for it yet.

Mankind on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud

Milou is the duo Iman Conta and Felix Flygare, and a few days ago they released the video to their debut single “High For You”. It’s about electro soul and disco and quite a bit about Iman’s wonderful soul voice. Listen for yourself here below.

Milou on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Soundcloud

Ioseb leaves us alone in a small hut out on the northern highlands, where we can experience the windswept empty plains, while the winter i biting our cheeks. That’s where we start on Iosebs second postrock-sounding album “agartha” (I wrote about their first album here). As a whole it’s more dynamic than that where we get to hear everything from a desoletely minimalastic piano version of “Ack Värmeland du sköna” up to grand melodic crescendos. Here are two tracks:

Ioseb on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp