Jonas Carping is going to release his second album on the 7th of October. It’s called “Cocktails & Gasoline”, and to give us a hunch how it sounds, he has released a couple of singles already, which you can listen to here below. I recognize his warm, dramatic vocals, but the sound costume is a bit different this time. His folk vibing songs are inbedded in a bigger sound now, with echoing guitars that remind me of both Mark Knopfler and U2, and where driving beats urge us on to open, grand choruses. It’s beautiful, comfortable but not without some nerve and drama.
A dose of hard rock, a dose of 70’s glam rock and quite a scoop of The Beatles. Those are some of the main ingredients for the Stockholm band Slugger’s song “Stalker”. And it tastes really well and spicy, which you also can hear in a couple of other tracks here below, tracks where they have added a few more rock spices as well. A debut album is on it’s way to our menus soon.
The rapper Tee Fye, hailing from Uppsala, whom I wrote about two years ago, is on his way with a new EP. But first he’s building up som speed with a couple of singles and first up is “Born to Be On”. Here he rap with his energic flow to a production created by the Spanish producer Freestyla The Beat Guuurl. Well, Freestyla The Beat Guurl is behind all the tracks on the upcoming EP, and on Sunday next single is coming up.
Dubious Quip, aka Daniel Rosenholm, makes a splendid comeback with the new album “The Fear”, his first release in 6 years. He is bringing 6 dub-inspired tracks which breathes of laidback grooves and a calm thoughtfulness. There’s a wonderful mix of retro influences, sound experimentation and acoustic tones. He moves effortlessly across various genres from for example the John Lee Hooker-beckoning “Boom Boom Boom”, to the soul vibing “Sunny Weather”, which makes me think of Bill Withers, to the R&B-inspired “Tears of Happiness”.
The title track “The Fear” is the last song and is a piano ballad about the fear of strangers that lurks behind many doors in our society. It’s a sad and painfully beautiful song, but there’s no resignation here, rather a calm decisiveness and a humble peace.
He has declared that all revenue from the record goes to the organisation Save The Children and their work for helping the Syrian refugees. The official release is on Friday but the entire album is available now on Bandcamp.
Mårten Lärka serves us another song in French, this time an energic, bluesy tune called “Robot”. It’s quite captivating , and I’m starting to feel like a robot as I get caught in the smooth, hammering rhythm. In Spring he released the single “Je Suis Un Rocker“, and I wrote then that he would release an album in May, but it’s actually next year, in 2016, when his album “Alouette” is coming out.
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