“Soundgarden goes psychedelic folk-prog” somebody said about Kokong‘s album “Science Loves Pudding”. The band describe the music as a mix of sex and sudoku and that they had the ambition to create music without any fixed boundaries. The band, or the duo, consists of Niclas Peterson and Tom Lindström.

I think that the quote above is a good reference point from where it all starts, somewhere in the nineties’ grunge-post-grunge, but then it takes of in various directions and I get all sorts of associations in the songs. Like for example in “Knife Attack” below, where it almost seems like Tom Waits was  around when they recorded the song.

Exciting and interesting album to listen to, which you can do on Spotify or on Ge.tt. You can also find the band on Facebook.

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Knife Attack

If you liked Let’s Say We Did we wrote about last year, you will probably be interested to know that they have released the new single “Let the Sky Come Down” today. The song is a first taste of the upcoming “Lost & Found EP”, which will be released in the end of March.

Listen more to Let’s Say We Did on Soundcloud or on Myspace.

Let the Sky Come Down

Mårten Lärka is back with a new release, the three-track EP “Trubadelica”. This time he’s joined forces with Josef Zackrisson and together with Petter Parlour they’ve created a production I really like. It’s minimalistic, the songs are  clearly defined and the drums are in a way the leading instrument. Or you can describe it like Mårten does: “Three songs told by a troubadour with band”.

You’ll find Mårten at his site and the songs are available on Spotify or on Myspace.

Bara för att vi

Two young men, a piano, an acoustic guitar and all in one take could be a summary of the duo Profetian (“The Prophecy”). The sing in both English and Swedish, but I like the productions in English best, which have a nice presence and live feeling.

If you want to listen to more songs and the ones in Swedish you can visit Profetian’s Myspace page. Here are two songs in English:

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The Loneliest Man On Earth

I can hardly attempt to describe Patrik Torssons music. It doesn’t sound like anything I’ve listened to before and he also moves around a lot in the musical landscape.

Lately Patrik has been quite productive when it comes to releases. In the autumn he released the piano-minimalistic “Evaporation” and at the same time the dark and tense electronica-EP “Jag är himlavältaren” and now he’s about to release the album “At the Line of the Border” in the US, through the label Saint Marie Records.

He’s building strong ambiences with few ingredients and his voice enters like a low-voiced, almost whispered comment to the theme, even if he sometimes surprise me with a melodic choir in the middle of it all. Quite special. You can listen to these releases on his Bandcamp page.

Here’s the title track from the EP “Jag är himlavältaren”:

Jag är himlavältaren