Ola Angleby is a quite busy artist. In addition to the duo Swedish Shoes, which I wrote about in spring, and the band Jane Gulliou, he also has a band in his own name. Different from the other projects, in this one he sings in Swedish instead of English.

Their sound is also different, here in their own mix of grand mellow pop and young indie pop/rock. But they don’t dig too deep in the melancholy, but get up front on stage shouting out their frustrations.These skilled musicians released an EP earlier this year and you can listen to the songs on Ola Angleby’s Myspace page.

Here you can taste two tracks:

Pallet pallar inte mer
Jag var inte jag

In August Epelectric opened for Moto Boy and Anna Maria Espinosa at Stockholms kulturfestival. Since then the band have been quite busy with a lot of gigs and in October they released their debut singel, the song “Founded”, which you can listen to here below.

It’s easy to get hooked on the energic rock they present with “Founded”, and apparently the music company X5 Music Group also got caught by the song, as they during the autumn signed a deal with Epelectric to collaborate in the year to come.

You can find Epelectric on their Myspace page or on Facebook.

Founded

Today’s band is the interesting Örebro band Yes I Am. This autumn they released the EP “Nightmares”, from which you can listen to a track here below.

I can sense the Coldplay inspiration but also some indie vibes. Especially I like the singer Christoffer’s voice that in a nice way blend with the music.

You can listen more on Yes I Am’s Myspace page.

Lovesick

From the Malmö/Helsingborg band Tic a rock energy beam, hard to avoid, is delivered. With the singer Emma in the front they give us a raw, unpolished rock with garage feeling but with a hard rock heaviness. This is probably best experienced live, but I think they have managed to impregnate the recordings, which you can listen to below, with a whole lot of energy.

If you like Tic you can visit them on their Myspace page. Here are two songs to listen to and download:

Red Light
Not You

Earlier this year The Open Up and Bleeds released the singel “Stiv Bators In All of Us”. This was a first step on their way to their debut album which is due soon. And the song just hit me directly in my chest. Straight on, no complications, pure rock’n’roll and raw guitars. Could it get any better?

Other tracks runs off in other directions, even though the core of it all remains the same. Sometimes the synths make their entrance and it becomes more of New Wave with a punkish attitude. There’s a nice raw sound in their music, which is strengthened even more by  Joel Segerstedt’s really cool vocals.

I’m looking forward to their album, and meanwhile we can listen to a bunch of tracks on The Open Up and Bleeds’ Myspace page. The singel, “Stiv Bators In All of Us” together with two bonus tracks, is available for download on Sounds of Zilence’ site.

Here’s the video to “Stiv Bators In All of Us”, and two songs to listen to and download; the singel song and the excellent bonus song “It Takes a Band”:

Stiv Bators In All of Us:

Stiv Bators In All of Us
It Takes a Band