Simon Johansson is Garbled Waves. He decided to combine his two earlier projects, Okomfortabelt and Hardstroke into one. As the names may hint, the first project had Swedish lyrics and the second one English lyrics.

Musically it’s about electronica in the first place. Electronica combined with a large dose of rock, good pop melodies and nice dynamics. It’s dark and grand and with special vocals, more downmixed than usual, but that fit perfectly in these songs, brilliantly so in a song like Schizophrenia.

You can meet Garbled Waves on Facebook where you can listen to more songs. Here are two tracks:

Schizophrenia
Someone Shoot Me

Roí Höttur who, in the beginning of the year, released their debut, the 12 -minute track “Dream of Papaver”, continue to produce songs in the same spirit. Psychadelic forest-rock as they call it themselves. This time, though, with a more normal track length.

Visit them on their Myspace page, where I can recommend you to listen to their cover of the Ace of Base-song “All That She Wants”. I Don’t think that you’ve heard it like that before.

Sound of the Round
Yes! I Need It

“Sången heter Chans” is a new EP from the band Ismael. Three songs with a somewhat different sound compared to their last album. Karin Wistrand (Lolita Pop) is a guest on two of the tracks and on the beautiful ballad below Elina Ahlander (Mezzobell, Moraltanten) contributes with some vocals.

Listen more on Myspace or visit them on their site.

Stjärnorna jag aldrig sett

If someone would play Mac Blagick to me and then claim that they were one of the pioneering bands from the beginning of the seventies that set the foundations for hard rock, I probably would have bought it. I would wonder, though, how a great band like this could have escaped my odysseys, hunting for great bands of that era.

Mac Blagick really radiates retro from those days, from the sound, from the songwriting and from the excellent vocals. They move between songs that remind me of a heavier Cream to others that take a big step into the seventies’ hard rock but with an older sound.

This year they released their second album “Ramadawn” and they are now underway with recording their third. You can visit them on Myspace. Here are two songs from “Ramadawn”:

Superfuck
Queen of the Night

Chick-e-Chack is a relatively new trio from Göteborg. This summer they released the singel “Det är nog idag”.

Kim Nilsson, after 10 years as a member of the punk band Blisterhead, longed for creating irresistable pop melodies and convinced drummer Martin Svensson and bass player Marcus Nordström to join the ride. The result is Chick-e-Chack.

The name of the band comes from a song by Docent Död. And somewhere in those regions, together with some influences from Göteborg, you can find their music; nice messy vocals sung in Swedish, good pop melodies and a good drive.

You can follow Chick-e-Chack on their site. Listen to their music on Spotify or on Bandcamp.

Det är nog idag