Heart-Sick Groans put a smile to many faces a little more than a year ago, also here on Meadowmusic. Now they are here again with the EP “Gentlemen, If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!”, and this at a time that fits the music even better. Cause it feels vernal, maybe even summerish from their nice and special folk-indie.
You can listen to and download the EP on their Bandcamp page. Here are a couple of songs:
The last time I wrote about the musical adventurer Peter Lindström, he had just been out on a 3 month long tour in the USA. And this time he has recently returned from an even longer journey with concerts in Japan, Nya Zeeland and Australia.
He also has a new album to show us, “Petrel Petering”, which I thought I could present here in this post. It’s an 11 track long album, where he continues to explore the classic american singer/songwriter music. Add to this some blues and country songs like “Jesus’ Blood Ain’t Failed Me Yet”, a great track which almost gives me an impression like it’s Bowie singing Jaques Brel with country sound.
Peter has that kind of voice that makes it’s way inside of me. There is a warmth, a nerve and a precense that feels very real. With his story in the back of my mind, it gets even more interesting. Listen for yourself in a couple of tracks from “Petrel Petering”:
“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:
“We All Die” is the name of New Found Land‘s debut album, which was released late spring earlier this year. Initiated by Anna Roxenholt and from the start a duo, the band has grown into a group of sometimes up to 8 musicians.
“We All Die” is a varied album with one foot in a modern indie sound, where the band has been compared to Feist, Loney Dear and Postal Service, and another foot in folk music with a hint of jazz. One thing that definitely stand out with this album is the clear, beautiful melancholy, here below exemplified with the song “All the Nights”, a song that also gives me some Joni Mitchell-vibes.
Listen more on New Found Land’s Myspace page.
All the Nights
“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.
Listen to more songs and read the story about Citizen K on Citizen K’s Myspace page.
She Says
Sometime In September
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