Author Archives: Pär Berglund
Labbet serves us some soft, cool, laidback electronica. “Excellent music for driving a car or strolling through the park on a Sunday afternoon”, he writes, and I quite agree. Really nice music to listen in the car, driving along a dark night.
The songs below are from the first singel release “I’m Gonna Miss You When You’re Gone”, and on 1980 Records’ site you can also listen to some new tracks with lead vocals by Russell Morgan.
Heart and Soul of a Lion:
It feels great to listen to Fredrik Malmgren’s, aka Apgeneralen, bluesy voice in this rock, which feels like it could be recorded from a sweaty rock jam in the first halv of the seventies. But it’s not quite that simple overall.
The Medicinal Storytellers don’t hesitate to mix in some Reggae, latino influences and instrumental rock, and without losing themselves. I think that they are great example of a band that can find their own identity within musical areas where thousands of bands have been playing for many years.
In spring 2009 they recorded the album “It’s Medicinal Time” and here below you can listen to two tracks from these recordnings. Listen some more on their Myspace page.
Brownstone
Hypothermia
If you liked Mono Stereo, which I presented here in the autumn, you can now listen and download a track from their Live EP here below. The other three tracks you can download if you sign up for their newsletter.
“My ambition is to always leave someone with a feeling, to be a feeling and to move somone. You should for a moment be able to walk away from normal life and just be inside the music”. The words are Lennart Lindgren’s, and I think that he does a good job at it. For me it means a trip back to my childhood’s troubadours with beautiful melodies and beautiful poetic lyrics.
It feels dreamy and very soft, and it’s a little like putting on a warm jacket, to go out for a long walk in the snowy landscape and dream away for a while.
You can find more of Lennart’s music on his Myspace page.
Here are two songs:
Sidechild is the story about the songs that disappeared in a computer crash, but was born again, reconstructed from sketches and memories. It’s also the tale about the songs that turned out to be the real love children, and that made Pontus go for his side project, his own music. Hence the name Sidechild.
Even though he got a fantastic start in 2007, as an opener for The Magic Numbers on their Swedish tour, it has taken a long time to finish the debut album. But after failed record deals, discontent over productions and songs, he started all over again and finally found his way home again. And like he did it!
“Music For Children” is the name of the debut album that came out of all this, and it will be released in the end of January. And I can really hear that it is a love child; there is a warmth and a feeling right through the record that makes it’s way quite bit into my soul. It’s often about pop and and melodies that really gets to you, and I walk away with a number of new hooks spinning around in my head.
There is a liberating, minimalistic style in the album that I like. It feels like that they have carefully added exactly those instruments that is needed in each track. And yet they succeed to combine classic soul and pop arrangements with more modern vibes, and with variation.
In the end it is Sidechild’s voice that is the strongest part of it all. And it’s very special. The closest I can think of is how Bowie sounded in some songs during the seventies. It’s dramatic, naked, fragile and what makes maybe the most naked songs the best ones. Like “Come On Come On” you can listen to below.
Follow Sidechild on his site and listen to more tracks there.
Nothing Like Love:
Meadow Music in swedish
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