This Good Friday I have a video and single premiere for you, with The Screamer, aka Henrik Lundqvist. The song’s called “Back To Black”, a song where he is joined by the hip hop artist Anthony Mills. Like on his debut single “Freak Out” it’s about quite catchy electro pop which he handles with his punky expression, you could say it’s electropop with an attitude. He is like the uninvited guest that crashes in on a glammy party, breaks all the rules of how things should be, dances like madman and takes over the entire event.

The official single release is tomorrow and will be celebrated with a gig at Pet Sounds Bar in Stockholm at 7 pm. Ianizer & Lemethy have produced the track and Joakim Falk is the man behind the video.

The Screamer on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

Just like yesterday I will start with ambient music today. It has a different character though, and comes from Interzone Inc and the album “Beautiful Decay”. Behind the name Interzone Inc we find Göran Kinnander, an artist who has created music under this name since the eighties. The music has varied but lately it’s focused to some extent on ambient electronica, which is also the base on this album.

The music is not that easily described, though, as ambient backgrounds, there is a lot of dynamics here, where he explores minimalistically created environments to grand soundscapes, from the melodic to the monotone. The biggest surprise arrives in the seventh track “Just Me”, which heads off with a hard, industrial electronica with screaming synths and where he also sings, for the first time actually. It works great, skakes you around, and afterwards we land in perhaps the most quiet and ambient track, “Panic Room”. He says that this is his most personal release so far and also writes: “Trying to describe that even in decay, and eventually death, there can be beauty.” It’s a quite fascinating journey in sound which makes me curious about his other work as well. On his Bandcamp-page there are another 14 releases to explore… Here are two tracks from “Beautiful Decay”:

Interzone Incs site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

All That Is released their debut single “Don’t Be Afraid” in January. Now the song has been processed by well-known producer Thomas Rusiak resulting in this remix:

All That Is on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

Imi Fal’s music is made for making you decelerate, sit down and take it easy for a while. On his third album “The Lightest Touch” he continues to build on his melodic ambient music with a sound he showed us in a couple of tracks last year. The feeling reminds me of getting up early in the morning, before anyone else, seing a sun that has just managed to crawl over the horizon. After a while other sounds seep in from the outside, from nature, from the city, from people, but it falls into the calm, slow pace of the music. Beautiful and relaxing and definitely the best album from Imi Fal so far.

Imi Fal on Spotify – on Soundcloud – on Bandcamp

Last year Tkačuk released two brilliant single tracks I presented here on the blog. Now the corresponding EP “Borders & Land” is out. The theme of the EP is the the dark shadows of prejudice and hate that have appeared in large parts of Europe, shadows which he has vowed to battle. He does this with light, a positive spirit and a young energy which together with his creative electronica and sticky melodies make an irresistable combination. Besides the two single songs he offers two new tracks and also remixes by Gabriel Gassi and Julian Sleepover.

Tkačuks site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp