I was impressed by the Norrköping band Class of Kill’em High. With songs that make me feel like I’m somewhere in the borderland between Foo Fighters and The Strokes, they make their own thing out of this and serves a nice variation with a lot of fantasy.
From exuberating, dirty indie-rock’n’roll in “Ultima Hombre” to melodic tunes in a garage-indie gown, to the suggestive, ambient “Lemondrop”. Dynamic songs also, that use Markus Pallof’s cool voice to the fullest.
Class of Kill’em High was formed already in 2003, but split upp the year after. In 2009 they reformed in this new outfit. You can find Class of Kill’em High on Myspace. Here are a couple of tracks:
A little more than a year ago Dubious Quip released his singel “Obedient Minds”, and in the end of last year he finally presented the follow-up album with the same name. And the seven tracks on the album feel like a great continuation of the journey that he started with the song “Obedient Minds”. With mr Quip’s own mix of hip hop, reggae and soul, it’s laidback, cool and nice to listen to.
And it gets even better with the contribution from a personal favourite, Ulf Ljusberg, who visits with his song “Make It Right”, where he also sings. Pitz and R.A.W. also contributes in a couple of tracks with a really cool rap, which fits perfectly with the atmosphere on the album.
You can follow Dubious Quip on his site, where you also can listen to the other tracks. The album is also available on his Bandcamp page.
Roí Höttur means Robin Hood in Icelandic, but beside the name I can’t find any obvious connections to Iceland or icelandic music. Instead the band serve us, what I would like to call, psychadelia with a blues heart. And psychadelia then as a trip back to the times of the early Pink Floyd.
The Doors can also be sensed in their music as well as, to some extent, Led Zeppelin and all this can be heard in their debut. A debut, which is, in a nice psychadelia tradition, a 12 minute long piece. Great fun to listen to.
Since Our First Guitar is a band that grew out of friendship in the early teens. Step by step the band and their music was formed, and finally in 2008 they decided to make a serious effort. With that said, they locked themselves up in their studio, located in a barn outside of Lund, Sweden, to create the first album.
This debut album, “Sound of Trees”, was released in the end of 2009 and you can listen to a couple songs here below.
It’s a rather soft indierock where they have created a very nice sound atmosphere to be inside. Pleasant, is word that comes to my mind. Listen here see if you agree with me. You can find more of Since Our First Guitar on Myspace.
Yes I Am, which I wrote about in December has released a new EP, “Alarm”. You can listen and download the songs on their Bandcamp page. Here’s “Let You Out”:
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I was impressed by the Norrköping band Class of Kill’em High. With songs that make me feel like I’m somewhere in the borderland between Foo Fighters and The Strokes, they make their own thing out of this and serves a nice variation with a lot of fantasy.
A little more than a year ago Dubious Quip released 
Roí Höttur means Robin Hood in Icelandic, but beside the name I can’t find any obvious connections to Iceland or icelandic music. Instead the band serve us, what I would like to call, psychadelia with a blues heart. And psychadelia then as a trip back to the times of the early 
Since Our First Guitar is a band that grew out of friendship in the early teens. Step by step the band and their music was formed, and finally in 2008 they decided to make a serious effort. With that said, they locked themselves up in their studio, located in a barn outside of Lund, Sweden, to create the first album.
