Emerald Park are preparing the release of the new album “Go! Go! Go!”, which is going to be released on the 23rd of June. The first taste for us is the song “Liberteens”, a song that the band wrote after they had listened to Imogen Heap and thought about how they could incorporate Autotune in their music. The result came out as a duet where an autotuned Martina Johansson is singing a cool, bright and airy electropop verse, after which Tobias Borelius comes rumbling in with rough indie pop and electric guitars where they seem to bend the tones a bit more to mark the contrasts. Love it.
I wrote about Hanna Järver and her delicate, close and ambient pop a couple of years ago when she released the EP “Smutsen“. In the beginning of this year she released the beautiful, melancholic single “Ingenting skrivet”, which also seems to be a forerunner to a new album.
The duo Magneta is a two-person offshoot from the band Killerball, which I’ve written about before. A while ago they released the first song, “Vafan”, a fun song musically, which they describe as a messy electronica in crude Swedish, but with a rather tragic family story as the theme. They write that they get their inspiration from bands like Bob Hund, Teddybears and Devo among others, and promise new songs within short.
Honeymilk is an interesting band to follow. They keep moving with their music all the time and have varied between britpop songs and more unpolished indie rock tracks. On the latest EP “Sanguine Skies”, which was released in February, I get to hear a rougher, larger indie rock sound, while I still recognise their playful, relaxed attitude from before. Here are two of the four songs:
Here’s an album that was released in February, but which I didn’t have time to write about then. But you can’t miss this, because this is one of the best rock album I’ve heard so far this year, namely Grande Roses’ second album “Built On Schemes”.
Again they show us a dark, dense postpunk based rock, and even if they have polished off some of the post punk in the sound and the most heated anger from the debut album “Disease“, the sharpness and the furious energy is still there. The songs feel overall stronger and with a larger variation, and finally I can replace “Radio Heartbreak”, which has been spinning in my head since the last album, with the new “Ambulance”. Here are some songs:
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