The duo Dpoint was formed in Trollhättan already in the end of the eighties by Peter Andersson and Robert Widell. And it’s also from this era I feel most vibes when I listen to their new album “Lies of Silence”. There’s lead heavy pumping synths which give me quite a few associations to german synth pop, but where also Depeche Mode-listeners may feel at home from time to time. Exept the starting “Lies of Silence”, which you can hear below, the best track to me is the finishing “Dance Tonight”, a song with more dance floor beats and a wonderful wild, distorted guitar which gives a lot of character to the song.
Melodic ambient for daydreamers. That’s what Ingemar Holmlid calls the music he creates under the artist name Imi Fal. He says that he started writing these songs as a reaction to all the stress and press we live in, to be able to relax with the help of the music and maybe find a calmer, more creative state of mind. And relaxing it is; there is no other way to embrace this but to calm down and relax. He released the debut album in Spring, “Follow No Path”, from which you can hear two tracks here below, and on his Soundcloud-sida he’s frequently posting new songs.
In Spring Emerald Park released the EP “Black Box“, which I wrote about then. What I didn’t mention was that they, before that, had released another EP, “Things”; an eminent collection of pop songs, five in total, a little like a best-of-Emerald-Park-right-now. So I’ll take the opportunity to play a couple of the songs now instead, from this EP which is free to download.
Below you’ll also find the music video to the song “Fugue State” (from “Black Box”), which was released earlier this autumn. The video is produced by Spanish Double Cheese, but recorded in London.
The band Chirping, which I wrote about in Spring, is releasing a new single today, “The Abyss”. Again we find them in this lightly melancholic, warm grand rock area with colleagues like for example The National. And they certainly know their way around here, this time with a softer song, a song they build up with a fine touch to the crescendo without taking it too far into the bombastic. It’s a song that somehow sticks and settles as a warm, comforting blanket over the ambience inside, as I look out into the growing Autumn darkness.
Min Stora Sorg, or Ann-Sofie Lundin which is her real name, is back with a new single and video, “Jag står kvar”. It was a year ago I wrote about her wonderful debut EP, and now she’s underway with her first full length album, which is coming out in the beginning of 2014. The video below is created by John Artur.
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