The title of Slowman‘s new album “I’m Back” is of course a hint of that he’s back with a new record, but first of all he’s announcing that he’s back to his musical roots. And that’s how the new album feels, an exploration of classic blues, blues rock, some contry rock plus soul and funk. The blues is what feels the most, the dist knob are cranked up a bit more, the edges not too polished and his got his hands deep down in classic, fertile timeless soil. I’d say that he’s standing even more secure with this new album.

Roses and Wine
Me and the blues

Listen and read more on Slowman’s site

Revolve was formed in 2003 in Uppsala by the two brothers Nils and Per Tengvar. They now live in Göteborg and there they recorded, last year, their debut album “Burning Money”, with Henryk Lipp as a producer.

With Henryk Lipp as the producer, you might suspect that this is about rock, and rock it is. The first thing that comes to my mind is classic eighties’ hard rock, but it is more and more mixed with the vibes from rock of a later date, foremost in the spirit of Foo Fighters. All in all it turns out to be a strong and even album so why not listen to a couple of tracks here below?:

In You
Blessed By Less

You can find Revolve on their site and on their Myspace page or on Spotify you can listen to the album.

Pull A Star Trip. Singer/songwriter with a couple of adreneline injections, or hardcore with acoustic guitars? They have been compared with Dashboard Confessional, which I can agree with to some extent, but here’s an extra intensity and energy which seems endless. And even if it’s not at all the same genre, I can’t help thinking about The Proclaimers and foremost their “I’m gonna be (500 Miles)”, in the energy and the interaction. Maybe somewhere around all this you can find Pull A Star Trip’s music.

In 2009 Pull A Star Trip released their first album “E-Vasion Inn”. Here are two tracks from the album:

Countenance vs. Fingerprints
LA Travel Guide

You can find Pull A Star Trip on Myspace and you can listen to “E-Vasion Inn” on Spotify.

The band name Tvivelfront sounds almost like punk rock to me. The music though, which is sung in English, has a little punk in it, but feels more like a raw and rockish variation of The Cure, with a touch of Broder Daniel.

On their EP “Kid Ikarus”, which was released in March, I find three tracks with a basic, distorted sound with a nice live feeling. You can visit Tvivelfront’s site or Spotify to listen to all three songs. Here’s the title track:

Kid Ikarus

This Vision, hailing from Helsingborg, released their first EP in 2007. After that they focused entirely in the production of their first full length album, and finally, in the end of last year, it was released. It’s about electronica inspired by the eighties and to me it lands somewhere between Pet Shop Boys and New Order. Handsome melodies and a nice melancholy interacting.

An interesting fact is that This Vision signed a contract with the biggest label in the Phillipines, and the album was launched there in December. Also hot right now is the fact that the song “Lost and Found” from the album was chosen to be the theme for the TV-show Gabba Gabba in SVT.

Read more about This Vision on their site and on Myspace. On Spotify you can listen to the album. Here are two songs:

Wherever I Run
Young Hearts

Wherever I Run: