Den Svenska Tystnaden, hailing from Malmö, invites us to a piece of social realism on their new EP “Fyra fall av fattigdom” (“Four cases of poverty”). Four songs and four stories  about real incidents from today’s Sweden, to be more specific Malmö. The singer and lyricist Pontus Wickman writes:

You don’t feel your clothes before something is itching and scratching. You don’t notice your everyday environment before something feels strange and out-of-place. You get that feeling often in Malmö and often it’s the starting point for our songs.
(translated from Swedish)

Den Svenska Tystnaden’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Soundcloud

They deceive us a bit with the title of their new EP, Miss Albatross, hailing from Göteborg. “Disco Blues” is the name of the EP, and it doesn’t sound like disco at all, but contains a bunch of great songs with a lot vibes from British rock from the sixties. Charming, catchy, a lovely garage sound and a record I’m going to keep spinning for a while.

Miss Albatross’ site – on Facebook – on Spotify

Photo by Johan Rosenberg

Behind the artist name Noras Falcon we find Elin Rosenberg, a 26 year old singer/songwriter, who recently released her debut EP, the four songs strong “The Spark”. And it is a strong EP; full of beautiful, airy pop with strong melodies, and which sometimes draws in some Americana/country-influences. And she has quite an interesting voice too, maybe somewhere between Kate Bush and Lycke Li, if you drew a curved line between these two. Listen to two of the songs here below.

Noras Falcon on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud

The band Könsförrädare (“Gender Betrayer”; if you don’t speak Swedish it will be next to impossible to pronouce it) released their debut EP during Spring. They are described as a mix of Sonic Youth, Butch Wig and riot grrrl, which you can hear below in one of the songs from the EP, “Death to Stories”.

Könsförrädare on Tumblr – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud

Last year the rock and metal trio Stone Carpet started their project about releasing four EP:s during a year. Each EP contains three tracks and has it’s own character and theme. I told you about the first two parts in August, and now all parts have been published, which all together form the album”Dispositio”, downloadable from their site. Listen here below to the song “Suburban Circus” from the EP “Peroratio”.

Stone Carpet on Facebook – on Spotify

Suburban Circus