Mattias Svensson, earlier saxophone player for This Is Head and RebekkaMaria among others, is releasing his debut EP on the 1st of February, an album with the short name “EP”. Before that we get to hear the single “Define Me” where he shows us a very smooth electro soul, call it indie R’nB if you like. Humble, creative, naked. In the Autumn he released the first single, the more intense “Born Was the Revolution”, a quite interesting song that you shouldn’t miss. He writes that he gets his inspiration from artists like D’Angelo and Tracy Chapman and together with the producer Martin Johan-Lo they turn this into their own version of emotional soul.
Here’s a new music video from The Tarantula Waltz with a piece of wonderful Americana in the retrospective “17”. The song is taken from his third album “Tinder Stick Neck”, released last year.
Later this year he’s going to release a new EP recorded together with Kristian Matsson/The Tallest Man On Earth, who’s also produced the EP.
Johan Agebjörn continues to show us songs from his forthcoming album “Notes” (release 10/2). Today he’s releasing the single “You Passed Through” where he have collaborated with the Canadian band Young Galaxy. From the start it’s the same retro-seventies’ vibe as in the earlier “The Boy Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Cry“, but which heads off in a different direction with the beautiful, dreamy vocals from Young Galaxy. The somg is being released together with an interesting remix from Memoryhouse.
Furthermore, a few days ago he uploaded “Careful”, also taken from the “Notes” record, this time a song collaboration together with Sally Shapiro. “The vocals were recorded in 140 bpm but were slowed down to 70 bpm to get a draggy feeling” he writes.
Ludwig och Skyltdockorna present himself as a queer artist, and on the new house-influenced pop single “Säg blev du rädd nu för mig?” it’s from this point of view he’s questioning men’s heterosexual jargon. He is challenging the constant need to label people after their sexual orientation and the necessity to fit in if you don’t want to be considered a threat to the male group. He writes that he is heterosexual himself but that he loves to dress as a woman, which makes it even more challenging for those who want to put neat little labels on people.
I hope you haven’t forgotten about 2014 completely yet, because here’s another recap of last year. It’s a list with 60 of my favourite songs from last year’s posts, not in a ranking order, rather listed somewhatin the order they were published. One could argue that a few of the songs should belong to an earlier year but here I haven’t cared about that; my basis for the list is solely the publishing date on Meadowmusic.
You can listen to all the songs in this post, but if you prefer streaming services there is a playlist on Spotify and another one on Wimp. Take note that there are a couple of songs missing in the Spotify list and a few more in the Wimp list.
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