Ebbot Lundberg (from TSOOL) liked Caviare Days’ song “When the Light Is Breaking” so much that he wanted to make a new version of the song. He sat himself down behind the mixer table, and also sneaked into the choir and together they made this new remake. A quite successful one I think, where the song seems to take a couple of steps forward, has more drive and even more retro vibes á la Jefferson Airplane and their likes.
On their third record The Crysal Caravan have hammered out their own version of hard rock inspired by the early seventies. It’s easy to find plenty of references to the legendary bands of those days as well as a large dose of psychadelia and jam band vibes on this 6 track strong, excellent album.
The Crystal Caravan’s site - on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud
The Good Morning Spider, hailing from Malmö, released this indie-psychadelic video creation today, to their song “Doctors and Crackers”. The song is taken from their freshly released debut EP “A Peg In the Hole”; an EP I have’nt listened through quite yet, but which I will do of course after this excellent track.
The Good Morning Spider’s site – on Facebook – on Bandcamp – on Soundcloud
It’s been rather quiet here this week, but I’m going to start it all up again. There’s loads of good Swedish music pouring into my inbox this year, and during the five years I’ve been posting here on Meadowmusic, I’ve never seen anything like it. I’m starting today with the excellent new album from Mackaper, ”Mot ljusare tider”.
I wrote about this organ duo, which now has become a quintet, in November, when they tempted us with the song ”Staden vaknar” from the new album. In the end of December the record was released, and it was just as great as I was hoping for. With the new members and where the drum machines have been exchanged for real drums, they feel even closer to their roots in music, to the progressive rock with influences from Swedish folk music from the early seventies. It feels inevitable to think about Bo Hansson as an inspiration while listening, and with their exploration of different ambiences in songs with titles that speak for themselves, I get a certain feeling of listening to a soundtrack, just like in the works of the predecessor. Great folk psych, as they call it themselves. Here below, you’ll find the starting track, “Dimma”.
Mackaper on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp
Just before Christmas Killerball released the single “Lost In the Woods”. The song is taken from the EP “Good Memories, Good Morning”, an EP that so far only exists as a physical CD-album. Unlike the electrified debut EP ”St. Epone”, which was released in 2011, all the songs are acoustic, which feels just right.
Since the cornerstone of the band have been their performances on streets and squares, their special characteristics shows much better here and besides the new acoustic versions of the earlier songs “Forcefed” and “I Can’t Find It” they also present more sides of their music than the blues based rock they have recorded before. “Lost In the Woods” is my favourite from the new EP where they in the beginning start digging in the grounds around Buffalo Springfield in the late sixties before they give hints of Paul Rodgers-contellations and also to what they’ve done before. Mystique, some psychadelia, folk rock and really sweet.
Killerball’s site - on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud
Back in Summer 2008, at the very start of this blog, we wrote about the band Salma Gandhi, hailing from Malmö. They said then that they were working on their debut album, but it took four years more, until “The Quest For Nonsense Never Ends” was released this Autumn. But it was worth waiting for…
What they call stoner jazz appears to me as wild instrumental journey into the world of psychadelia, also coloured by progressive rock, jazz, blues and other stuff. It breathes of the late sixties/the beginning of the seventies, and even more so from from the filmic vibe in the music, where it sometimes feels like I’m drawn into a hardboiled detective thriller with car rides, smoky nightclubs and drama. But during the 75 minutes they achieve much more than that, as they can travel from a flipped-out jam to blues to a beautiful melodic ambience.
It’s a solid connective album where also the crazy track titles have their own meaning. As I understand it, the band members have made it into a kind of game, coming up with titles which with word acrobatics in some way describe the songs. What about, for example, “Paranoid Cow On a Mushroom Lawn” or “Polish Rodeo For Drunken Teenage Midgets”? Listen for yourself here below in a couple of songs.
Salma Gandhi on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp
Then Comes Silence, hailing from Stockholm, was formed earlier this year and released their debut album, “Then Comes Silence” during the Autumn. What brought the members together was the fascination for death, doom, spiritualism and corruption and also a predisposition towards noiserock, goth, shoegaze and psykadelia. And their music feels like a blend of all this, like if they made their own mixture of goth rock and psychadelia with a horror movie theme, and wrapped it in a big thick shoegaze blanket. Listen to a couple of songs here below.
Then Comes Silence on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud
Den stora vilan, hailing from Göteborg, have announced their third full length album, “Förvandling”, to be released on December 5th. To give us a feeling of what it’s about, they have launched a single with two songs, and a surprisingly spectacular video you can check out here below. I think it sounds really interesting in their psychadelia that has a warm jam band vibe to it, and in Swedish too.
Den stora vilan’s site - on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp
I Am Super Ape, hailing from Malmö, released their second EP during the Autumn. Apparently they are working on their third EP now, which is scheduled for release in December. They serve a cool, rather raw shoegaze with psychadelia vibes, punky and with some vibes of Sonic Youth. Here’s one of the tracks from the EP.
I Am Super Ape’s site - on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud
Kompaniet, hailing from Sala, takes us back to the early seventies’ psychadelic and progressive rock on their debut album ”Vi i dalen”. Well, in fact there’s a range of influences that meet on the album, like blues, folk, jazz and rock which is also significant for that era when artists started to mix genres and experiment wildly. The songs started to live their own lives, both when it comes to length and structure. Kompaniet have found their own strong character in the middle of all this, as they cruise between Pink Floyd-influences, blues, Swedish progressive rock and folk music, from a relaxed ambience to drama.
Yes, I’m quite impressed by this debut. I don’t know more about the band than that they started in 2011 and that there are ten members in the band. You can find two songs to listen to here below, with the second one being the finishing 16 minute long “Nere i Dalen”.
Kompaniet på Facebook – på Spotify – på Wimp – på Bandcamp
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