I was going to write about Artymoves EP “One of These Days”, which they released earlier this spring. But since then they have also released the single “Love Me”, which has managed to climb lists here and there lately.

“One of These Days” is anyhow a really good EP which caught my attention immediately. Compared to Artymove’s earlier albums I’d say that the soul thermometer has gone up with quite a few degrees in these new songs, into a warm club soul with a really nice, cool electronica background and hooky frases which put themselves like a sweet bell pepper on a cheese sandwhich making it perfect.

You can listen to all this, and their earlier albums, on Spotify and on Soundcloud. Follow Artymove on their site.

One of These Days
I Can’t Believe You’re Gone

One of These Days – live:

After 13 years as a guitarist, DiaVandy heard an electro song for the first time, “NY Excuse” with Justice. He was immediately caught, bought a midi-synth, and more or less quit playing the guitar.

He now produces electronica under the name DiaVandy, and in collaborations such as DVMH, together with Malin Gustafsson. He’s working on an album with a political message, to be released in early Fall, a project that’s called “Democracy” which will involve several guest artists.

You can listen more to DiaVandy on Bandcamp or on Myspace.

Cellardoor
Moonbeat

Fort Fairfield consists of brothers John and Tom Lück. According to what they write you can also imagine a third member: “Some might say that the cold water of Vättern and the unfriendly winds of Lake Munksjön is the third member of Fort Fairfield.”

They call the music shoegaze electronic, which is a fitting description I think, at least sometimes. I think it’s more varied than that, as I listen to the album “The Dead Sea Scrolls”; from instrumental electronica-pop to ambient music with sampled voices. It’s interesting with this type of music how one chooses to interpret it; you can either try to experience their storytelling about the harsh Jönköping areas or you can get out on personal adventures from the images the music produces.

If you’d like to follow the Lück brothers they also write: “It also formed us to like the nature as thought not in practice.”, as I interpret it the music reflects nature from a distance and not from the experience of enjoying it. Or maybethe  nature as an artificial, tame ideal, symbolized by the budgies. Well, listen for yourself in “The Dead Sea Scrolls” on Spotify. On Myspace you can also find parts of the album.

To complicate things even more, they sent me two new tracks from the upcoming album, tracks with vocals. We now move to the indoor club and enjoy a minimalistic electro soul together with Cosima Lamberth and de Montevert:

Dresden Soul (with Cosima Lambert)
My Boys (with de Montevert)

”Momoism – A playful idea about mixing high and low, the electronic and the organic, sparkling colours and dance rhythms.” That’s how Momofoko explains the title of their new album “Momoism”, to be released tomorrow.

Dance floor rock with funk guitars, a lot of classic disco vibes and a dash of electro will probably get a lot of stiff legs moving on Momofoko’s live shows. Add then some nice pop melodies and Mårten Holst cool voice.

Last summer the band released the EP ““Not now!…Now?”” and now it’s time for the debut album “Momoism”. You can keep track of the band on their site and on their Facebook page. Here are two songs from the album:

What You Want to Hear
Still Need to Dance

I wrote about Shallow Sense a couple of years ago, when they had released a new EP. Now they are on their way to release a new EP, “It’s a Lie That Time Can Heal”, and I find that a lot has happened with their music.

Well, they sound almost like a completely different band today, even if the final song on the EP, “Stay”, reminds me of the earlier songs. In the other tracks the guitars have left space for the electronica, the introverted for the extroverted and the focus is on strong pop melodies, which they do really well. If I placed them between Coldplay and The Killers last time, we can throw out Coldplay from the game this time and stay with The Killers.

You can find Shallow Sense on their site and on Facebook. Here’s the second song from the EP, “Changes”:

Changes