Author Archives: Pär Berglund
Today it’s about classic hard rock through Damien, a band från Lund. And hard rock then in a way it was played in the first half of the eighties before the poodles arrived. Lots of guitars, a good rock drive, football choirs, nice melodies and a female singer with a strong voice, Michelle.
You can find Damien on Myspace. Here are two tracks:
Rock or Die
We Are the Kids
The Happy Four breathes enough sixties retro to satisfy me for quite some time to come. And they do it in a great way. It’s like an up-to-date mix of The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Rolling Stones all at once. Heavy drums, an organ that wraps me in a warm cloak of nostalgia, nice melodies and cool vocals with a nice attitude.
The Happy Four consists of 4 members from the former nineties band Love Kings. In the beginning of this year they released the singel “Kill Me” containing two tracks, which you can listen to below. You can find The Happy Four on Myspace and on Facebook.
Bored Man Overboard is a young band that started out in 2007 in the high school cafeteria. Despite this they have accomplished a lot since then. A record deal with the german label Hazelwood, some EP:s, a European tour and they are now working with their first full length album.
The base is a dark alternative rock, but what makes it interesting is that they have, among the seven members, both string and horn players, which makes a little different mix. This creates a nice contrast between the hard and the soft, between dark rock and folk vibes and variation between the songs.
You can find Bored Man Overboard on Myspace. Here you can listen to the title track from the latest EP “Sinner Song”, which was released last fall.
Sinner Song
The duo Mackaper consists of the two organ players Markus Hulthén and Per Nyström. In the beginning of February they released their debut album “When All Is Sad and Dawn”.
It’s about instrumental music, where of course the organs are the main attraction, but they are accompanied by strings, drum machines, horns and other instruments. I’m reminded of prog-rock from the seventies but also of minimalistic synth pop, maybe the two strongest influences on the album. But overall it feels quite varied, where elements of jazz and swedish folk melancholy also fit in together with strong melodic themes and a nice atmosphere.
You can find Mackaper on their site or on Myspace. The albumet “When All Is Sad and Dawn” is available on Spotify. Here are a couple of songs from the album:
Tale of Tales:
Wallenberg is a project that is run by Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson in cooperation with various musicians and artists. Recently the EP “Red In the House of White” was released, and you can listen to a track from the EP here below.
On the surface it can be described as a minimalistic, alternative electronica, where I, without hearing a direct likeness, get associations to Lykke Li. There’s an innocent, naive feeling to it all, where of course also the images, the art and the clothes play a part. The red and the white, check patterns, elephants, some eastern vibes give a feeling of mystique like it’s a riddle I should try to solve somehow.
You can listen to the EP on Wallenberg’s Bandcamp page and on the Myspace page.
Meadow Music in swedish
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