LCTRISC call their music “Maximal”, which is explained as: “A crazy fusion dance music and garage noise. Guitar riffs cut into pieces in symbiosis with cheap drum samples and midi synths. And a banana shaker.”

Lenny and Leslie form the duo LCTRISC and have found their own way of mixing electronica with rock vibes, crazy playfulness, hooky guitar and synth figures and heavy beats.

“Last Kiss” is their new single, here below also as a video (by Johan Stolpe), a video that won an award recently at Dalarnas Film Festival.

You can follow LCTRISC on Facebook and on Myspace. Here are two tracks:

Last Kiss
Reach the Children (Book of Doom)

Last Kiss:

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Update 18/11

LCTRISC has recently signed with the excellent label Despotz Records, and they will release a remastered version of “Last Kiss” as a first single. I have therefore removed the “Last Kiss”-track for now.
The song is available, though, on a limited vinyl edition.

After I’ve been listening to polished rock and pop productions, it feels rather liberating sometimes to listen to someone who has put the polishing cloth away, that just plugs in the instruments and goes for it. The Nature could work well here.

Their punkish garage rock in Swedish, or garage punk if you prefer, feels like such an outlet. The members Zeta, Robban and André comes from the bands Alouatta, Makabert Fynd and Östermalm and started The Nature first as an experiment, without any decided direction.

Recently they released a split 7″ together with Ignatius, which is available also on Spotify, and they are now recording new material.

Listen more on their Myspace page. Hera are two songs:

Din Medicin
Hård

“Things to Do” is the debut EP from Kate and After. I wrote about them in January and it’s obvious that a lot has happened since then.

They called in Henryk Lipp as the producer to the EP and together they have created a new sound for the band. It’s more energetic and heavy while the hammond has found it’s right place and adds a nice retro luster to their indie rock/pop. The vocals are dubbed, more edgy and brings an up-to-date feeling of the sound. Well, it feels like the entire band has stepped forward and demands more space.

You can listen to two of the songs from “Things to Do” here below. On their site you can listen more and also download the EP. It’s also available on Spotify.

Me, Myself and I
The Pretender

Some claim that Magna Carta Cartel sounds like music for movies that haven’t been made yet. And I have to agree with that. That is how it feels when they change scenes from one song to another. And the music gets that little extra touch when that idea sticks in my mind.

Their debut album “Goodmorning Restrained” was released last year. Half of the tracks are instrumental and the others contain vocals. Thematic songs, pop and rock lays the foundation, powerful, dramatic and impeccable, almost perfectionistic. The vocals are laidback and dubbed in a style you often hear in electronica, which also makes the vocal songs feel more uniform than the  mood-shifting instrumental tracks.

You can download the entire album “Goodmorning Restrained” on Sounds of Zilence and you can meet the band on Facebook or on Myspace.

Metropolis Flow
So Long

Art Acoustic is a duo from Göteborg that combine electronica and acoustic guitars with inviting pop melodies. Right now they offer us their first EP, called  “EP #1”.

They move from the modern dance floors to the eighties sound to a more straight electro-acoustic pop and show this in four tracks you can download on their site. You can also meet them on Facebook. Here are two songs:

Lay Your Head
Travel