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:

Luckily we didn’t have to wait too long for the new music from Skånske Arne & Jonny Spöge, whom I wrote about a little while ago. Recently they released their debut EP “-Kommande Fantastiska…” (“The upcoming fantastic…”)

They continue to strike, with surgical precision, at remarkable situations in our society, and hacked Hotmail accounts as well as TV cooking shows are being targeted. The EP ends, though, with the autobiographic “Pappas Lapp” (“Daddy’s note”), but even that song contains a certain amount om complaining.

Here below you can listen to “Äta på kåppra” (“Eating at kåppra”), a nostalgic complaint from the times where you could eat at Konsum’s restaurant, and you were sitting there with a queue number in hand but couldn’t really hear from the speakers which numbers they announced. Something many of us have experienced.

They continue on the musical route they started with “Gula lådan”, with their retro rock from Skåne. Listen more on Spotify or on their site.

Äta på kåppra

Johnny & I is a band from Göteborg/Vara, who recently released the EP “While You Stand Still”. They create indie rock that gets that extra emotional tension with a singer that really makes their songs stand out.

Listen more on their Facebook page.

Like Their Medicine

Today it’s about Vacancy Labour, a band hailing from Linköping, which I think can give rise to quite different associations when you listen to their music. I’m thinking of dance-friendly rock from the end of the eighties/the early nineties and also a little about Alan Parsons Project from the early eighties.

You can find three songs to listen to on Reverbnation. Follow the band on their blog (in Swedish) or on their Facebook page.

What These Times Show

Friska Viljor relased their fourth album “The Beginning of the Beginning of the End” during spring. If I felt that the last album “New Beginnings” was a little more restrained than the previous “Tour de Hearts”, they are pretty much unleashed this time. Armed with horns and a range of instruments, it’s full speed ahead from the start.

It’s party, it’s sing-a-long, it’s dancing in the streets (yes, there’s even waltz), but also space for reflection and variation. Overall a positive album which touches my impression that this is their best album so far.

You can listen more on Spotify or on Soundcloud. You’ll also find them on Facebook. Here’s the starting track “Larionov”:

Larionov