Division Of Laura Lee have been around for a while, but have taken a long time between albums. On the other hand, if the albums are as good as their fourth album, “Tree”, which was released in Spring, they can take the time they need. A couple of weeks ago they launched the single “Rudderless” from the album, a dense indie rock tune which sweeps into the room like a cyclone, with warning foghorn guitars and a smooth song melody to hold on to. I take the opportunity also to throw in another song from “Tree”, the last single, “Old Gold”.
Here’s another band who’s returning after a longer period of absence. It’s KallocaiN, hailing from Norrköping, who’s announcing a new album in Spring with the release of this single with the songs Birds and the Bees” and “Walls”. They surprise me a bit with “Birds and the Bees”, a seemingly languishing, classic rock ballad with echoes from the eighties, but which they still turn into their own indie-sounding atmosphere.
Here’s a single with the Stockholm quartet Project Elephant. It’s called “None of My Business” and breathes of indie rock with a nicely distorted, dark sound. This is the first release from the band since the debut EP “Exactly!”.
I’ve started my day with listening to Rolf Fabian, whose name is also Johannes Måbrink. His Rolf Fabian och Klabbet released the EP “Psykel” during the Autumn and it seems that a full length album is underway in the beginning of 2014. On the EP we meet pop melodies in a punk-energic, slightly garage sounding dress and you can listen to two of the songs here below.
When the band Alouatta was put on hold, two of the members, Robert och Zeta, decided to do something on their own, completely without any rules or reins. André from Östermalm/Makabert Fynd joined them and The Nature was born. This Autumn they released their debut album “Din medicin” (“Your Medicine”) which also very much sounds of unrestrained rock, noisy, garage-sounding and sometimes punk vibing. Joy Division, Wired and Brända Barn are mentioned as comparisons, but to get a sense of what they’re doing they describe it best themselves when they explain how the music was created:
We wanted to do something, and we wanted to do that something without any reins or rules. To play in a band often means that someone tells us what to do and what not to do. Now there were the three of us, and the only rule was not to stop any ideas or feelings.
During the first rehearsals we were like kids in a candystore full of feedback, reverb and whatever we felt for. The happiness in the smoking breaks was complete.
Gradually songs began to appear from small parts within chaotic jams and a band was starting to take shape. The music has no real guidelines and no specific style, We do what feels good and that’s enough for us. (translated from Swedish)
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