Here’s a new single from Chris Michols, whom you may remember from last Fall when he released his album Scar Trek. You can follow Chris on his site.

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I wrote about Daniel Hedin and his solo project Le Days a couple of years ago. Now he’s finally released his debut album “Dead People On Tape”.

The Cd’s booklet doesn’t contain the lyrics to the 16 songs. Instead we see photos of unknowns, mug shots seemingly from the beginning of the last century. It’s through the eyes of these people Daniel looks when he creates this music, picturing how the world may have looked for these, I imagine, tragic life stories.

With a voice and an expression that reminds a little of Conor Oberst, he paints a dark, tragic, dreary world. It becomes very strong and emotional and surprisingly dynamic in this minimalistic production. An impressive and credible album.

You can listen to “Dead People on Tape” on Bandcamp and on his site he shows the images of these dead people. You can also find Le Days on Facebook.

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I wrote about Eddie Wheeler in 2008 here on the blog, and presented some of his music. There were plans of releasing an album in 2009, but what happened instead was that Eddie started a collaboration with musician Henrik Nordahl, aka Hank Wheeler, and the band Wheeler was formed.

Last week they released the debut album “Wheeler”. And it’s an impressive album. They’ve continued to build upon Eddies style with an acoustic, mellow, dark rock, but yet it’s something completely different from what I’ve heard before. Eddie sings his personal lyrics in Swedish and he also sings better than ever before. Or maybe it’s because of the language and it can be felt. Even if you don’t understand Swedish I think you can appreciate it and understand what it’s about.

The sound is largely built upon acoustic guitars and is smoldering beautiful and well produced. It’s partly dark and creates en emotion that acompanies what’s said between the lines, even if we can feel a glimpse of light here and there.

Here below you can help yourself to the first two tracks from the album. Listen more on Wheeler’s site or on Spotify. Wheeler’s also on Facebook.

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The True is a duo from Malmö consisting of Christian Hagman och Jonas Hofvander. So far they’ve released four songs and here below you can listen to “Monster”. It’s beautiful, naked and warm and with great vocals from Christian Hagman.

The first single “Leadership” has been released on Spotify. If you’d like to listen more you can visit The True on Facebook and on their blog you can download the tracks.

Monster

Behind the name Eremitapa we find Tim Pirfält, 19 years old, hailing from Jönköping. He has recently released the EP “Brev Till En Desillusionerad Vän” (“Letters to a disillusioned friend”). We meet a young man with a guitar, a somewhat uneven production and his search for an expression. And that’s what makes it real and honest too. Like it should be.

It’s mature without being premature, cautious but yet with attitude and he dares to experiment without overdoing it in his search. The EP, entirely in Swedish, is available on Eremitapa’s Bandcamp page. He also has a Facebook page.

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