In August Epelectric opened for Moto Boy and Anna Maria Espinosa at Stockholms kulturfestival. Since then the band have been quite busy with a lot of gigs and in October they released their debut singel, the song “Founded”, which you can listen to here below.
It’s easy to get hooked on the energic rock they present with “Founded”, and apparently the music company X5 Music Group also got caught by the song, as they during the autumn signed a deal with Epelectric to collaborate in the year to come.
Sweet Serenades released earlier this year a very strong debut album, “Balcony Cigarettes”. It contains a bunch of contagious songs with high humming factor. It’s playful, romantic, melodic, dramatic in a modern indie pop which let their roots shine through.
Coming from Timrå, Martin Nordvall and Mathias Näslund formed Sweet Serenades in 2002. Among the numerous gigs since the start, they have frequently performed in Swedish prisons. They have tested their songs on the internees and, as they say, thrown away songs that haven’t provoked any dance, cries, tears or riots.
Today’s band is the interesting Örebro band Yes I Am. This autumn they released the EP “Nightmares”, from which you can listen to a track here below.
I can sense the Coldplay inspiration but also some indie vibes. Especially I like the singer Christoffer’s voice that in a nice way blend with the music.
Luke Jackson traveled to Sweden, with a heap of pop songs in his luggage, to collaborate with Magnus Börjesson (remember Beagle?) and ex Brainpool members Christoffer Lundquist and Jens Jansson. It all resulted in the album “And Then Some…”, a real pop-feelgood-album.
It almost feels like this is Luke Jackson’s own condensed version of classic guitar based pop history. Then it always starts somehow in George Martin’s studio, but lands in the fantastic pop-seventies. There’s gorgeous string arrangements, beautiful melodies and and a songwriting full of fantasy, leaving some space for being unpredictable. But I can also hear the traces from his coworkers’ earlier pop history from the nineties.
“Citizen K was born on August 4, 1966. The bastard son of a beautiful go-go-dancer, and a famous rock’n’roll star.”
That’s how the story about Citizen K starts, and without reading any further I would have guessed that the father was someone from Crosby, Stills & Nash or from Pink Floyd or maybe George Harrison himself. That would have been my guess after listening to the 16-track album “Meet Citizen K”. 16 tracks full of excellent pop songwriting with folk influences.
This feels like a really solid album, which grows each time I listen to it, and it wasn’t easy to pick two favourite tracks to present in this post. I dillied back and forth until I stayed with the two songs you can listen to here below.
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In August Epelectric opened for Moto Boy and Anna Maria Espinosa at Stockholms kulturfestival. Since then the band have been quite busy with a lot of gigs and in October they released their debut singel, the song “Founded”, which you can listen to here below.
Today’s band is the interesting Örebro band Yes I Am. This autumn they released the EP “Nightmares”, from which you can listen to a track here below.
Luke Jackson traveled to Sweden, with a heap of pop songs in his luggage, to collaborate with Magnus Börjesson (remember Beagle?) and ex 
“Citizen K was born on August 4, 1966. The bastard son of a beautiful go-go-dancer, and a famous rock’n’roll star.”
