It’s been almost two years since I wrote aboutThe Faux Noise, and apparently they haven’t released any new music since then. It’s good to know then that they are back now with a new single, “Leave Her to Heaven”, which they have released together with three remixes of the song.
It’s a suggestive, dreamy song with vibes from the eighties, where they, like before, tame a sound chaos into beautiful soundscapes. You can listen to their music on their Soundcloud page and the single is also available on Spotify. You can follow the band on their site and on Facebook.
Some music needs some time before you can enjoy it. And sometimes you need som kind of door opener before you can experience it “for real”. This happened to me with the Swedish-American band Susurrus Station’s latest album ”Antinomie”. The first time I listened I couldn’t really get it so I let it go for some time. A month later they sent me the video they made for the song “Alluvia”, which sort of unlocked the doors to “Antinomie” for me.
This is their fourth album, but I haven’t heard any of the former ones, so I can’t really compare. I can tell you, though, that this is an interesting, varied, unpredictable and dreamy genre mix of an album. Listen more on Spotify or on Wimp. You can find the band on their site.
A little more than a month ago Emerald Park released the album “Absolute Zero”, the third one since they started in 2002. It’s been four years since the last time and one would expect some changes in the music. And there is, quite a few, which they signalled with their single “Reality Bites” last year.
It’s more naked, happier, more tounge-in-cheek, more romantic and nostalgic and the entire production feels more spontaneous. They show their love for good pop melodies, which isn’t anything new to them, but it feels, well, more relaxed. I notice the americana influences in some songs and more than once I’m reminded of Magnetic Fields and also Jens Lekman.
Overall I think it’s a great album, varied and fun to discover, and an album that grows each time I listen. You can listen for yourself on Spotify or on Wimp. Follow the band on Facebook.
Here are two songs from the album, a replay of “Reality Bites” from last year, and the new song “Someone to Love”.
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Olof Svenblad’s music project Teleskop. Now he’s working under the name Fallen Timbers instead, and this year he’s presented a rich material in two albums on his Soundcloud page. I think it’s a collection of great electronica based songs which grows the more I listen.
The name Fallen Timbers comes from a poem by Sylvia Plath and Olof says that the image of a forest after a storm appealed to him, with the logs on the ground like spillikin and the clear-cut areas.
If there was a reward for the longest take-off run, I’m sure the band Tennis Bafra would be nominated. They started the band in the mid-nineties and during fifteen years they neither played live nor made any recordings. They were satisfied with playing together and having a good time in the rehearsal room. A couple of years ago the bass player Thomas Gjerdingen entered the band and took the role of the prince before the Sleeping Beauty-like band as he suggested that they should record something. Things took off and resulted in gigs, a label deal with Nomethod Records and now, in the beginning of the year, the debut album “Abulia Jubilee”.
They call it slacker noise and say that they got stuck in the nineties’ rock era with Sonic Youth and similar bands. I don’t argue with that, but they got stuck in their own special way and it works great for me as I listen now in 2012. They have a comfortable, relaxed, although rough, attitude on the album, more indie rock than noise I’d say, but I might add here that the last song is a 20 minutes long instrumental piece that feels like a journey with a creaking container ship in space.
They don’t have a clear explanation for the somewhat peculiar band name. They recall that they consciously wanted to do the opposite in some way. All the youth around them were all into either sports or music, so obviously they went for something that signalled sports in the name. Hockey didn’t sound to good but Tennis did. About Bafra they can only tell us that it was added shortly after Tennis, but noone remembers how and why.
After four years as the singer in the death metal act Science of Demise August Vinberg switched genre and joined the electro pop band Storbritannien instead, a band I’ve written about before. Writing songs for the band has also resulted in a pile of songs that haven’t been an exact match with Storbritannien and August decided to release some of them on an EP in the solo project Höstmarschen. You can listen to the first song “Gaia” here below.
About the name Höstmarschen (Autumn march) he says that it partly comes from that the project was started last Autumn and partly because the Autumn feels special for him, as it’s the season when he is most creative.
You can listen to the other songs on Spotify and follow Höstmarschen on Facebook.
Today the band Daymare released a song for free from their new EP “Friend Fighter”. It’s the instrumental starting track “Neu Horror” which you can listen to and download below. They call the music indie-goth, which doesn’t really give me any clear associations as I listen, but why not define your own genre if you want to? There are obvious indie vibes and it’s different and interesting, and you should listen to the other songs on Soundcloud. You can also find Daymare on Facebook.
The trio Carousel says that they are inspired by the sixties and bands like The Jam. And I can clearly hear that in the four songs on the EP “Count Me In” they released a little while ago. They have a basic garage rock sound backing pop songs with hooks that you catch pretty fast when you listen. You can listen more on Spotify and on their site. They also have a Facebook page. Here’s the title track from the EP:
The Glorias is a young, 5 women strong band from Boden in the north of Sweden. With a clear, natural attitude they play indie rock with obvious vibes from the eigthies. You can listen to the latest EP “Stupid Situation” on Spotify, on Wimp and on Soundcloud. Fresh, energetic and good songs. You can follow the band on Facebook.
Lovisa Lindström, whom I wrote about last year, released a new single on International Women’s Day on the 8th of March. The song, “The Time That Should Be Mine” was produced by Chris Snyder and is a quite a pleasant piece of pop. Listen for yourself here below.
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