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Niklas Krig is working on his debut album now, and as a first taste of the album, he has released three tracks we can listen to. Three songs with different characters, but with a common mellow pop ambience overall. Listen to two of the songs here below.
You can listen to more songs and follow Niklas on Soundcloud and on Facebook.
Photo: Oscar Poulsen
“I usually describe my music as full of clichés. If someone else had used this term you’d perhaps interpret this as something negative, but I on the contrary love to play with the expected, and therefore I usually say like this:
Instrumental and improvised music doesn’t have to be difficult, simplicity doesn’t have to be boring. Surprise by playing the expected. The music should be like a Tarantino movie, – beautiful, violent and full of clichés.”
That’s how Lars Åhlund describe the music on Lars Åhlund’s Second Coming‘s new album “Fire In Ödeshög”. When I use the word cliché myself I mean something that is used by routine, without depth and maybe a little boring. And from that perspective Lars Åhlund’s Second Coming is quite the opposite.
I think that Lars Åhlund lack the ability to be musically boring and do something by routine, which I could hear already in his pop projekt Gocart System, which I have written about before. Now this is first of all about jazz, where Lars together with Joakim Simonsson, Markus Hängsel and Gustav Nahlin (plus some guests) explore jazz clichés from the past.
And it sounds anything but an old, worn expression, it’s rather a fresh, updated and fun jazz album which ventures into various jazz styles from the starting jazz blues “Vår Blues” to 70’s gangster movie themes to jazz proggressive music to funk- and pop flirts. Brilliant musicians where Lars’ playful saxophone with attitude lies in the front asking for attention. An album also, I think, that’s perfect for those that haven’t listened that much to jazz but are curious of what it’s about.
Listen to the album on Spotify and on a couple of more songs on Myspace. You can follow the band on their Facebook page.
Two years ago I wrote about Same Old Story after the release of their debut EP “Waste of Time”. Now it’s about their first full length album “A Great Disgrace”, which they released last month.
They continue on their skate punk road, but now it’s a little heavier, more punk attitude and a better sound. You can listen to the album on Spotify and there are also some tracks on their Facebook page. You can find their site here. Here’s “Study Your Bible Belt” from the new album:
The first thing that strikes me, as I listen to Frida Selander’s new album “Try Again Baby”, is her dark, warm voice. Almost like a young Chrissie Hynde or Patti Smith and reminds a little of Birgit Bidder too.
And The Pretenders-vibes is what I hear as I continue to listen, but it’s more about rock and blues than pop, and the guitars are more distorted than clean. The sound feels retro, lots of the seventies, which gets most obvious when she get into country areas as well, like in the Zuma-sounding “Way to love”.
Overall an even and good album with a nice groove. The songs grows with each listen as I discover the variation and find new favourites.
Listen more on Spotify or on Frida’s site or Facebook page.
Before, Liz-Marie was part of the duo Tylöflickorna, but is now heading for a career as a solo artist with a somewhat different style than earlier.
She has recently released a number of songs which you can listen to on Spotify, or on Myspace.
It’s about singer/songwriter-pop in Swedish which also feels very Swedish, which you can hear in the track “Bitter”:
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