Adna, nowadays based in Berlin, is on her way with her third album “Closure” and is tempting us with a single from the album. Here she enters a room with that special melancholic ambience which only belongs to her. And no matter how big the room is, it still feels intimate as we sit down beside her and in confidence listen to the reflections she invokes from her inner well. “Overthinking” is a build-up song which starts out quietly with only a picking guitar as company, but is gradually filled with vocal harmonies, beats and echoing toms. About the song she writes:

“I believe we all have a dark place inside of us, some more aware of it than others, and we all have our own way of dealing with it. I tried embracing mine, which led to finding a home within it, but also of course – the making of this record. “Overthinking” was written about a year ago in some kind of apathy state of mind, inspired by that time and all about the contrasts. “

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Today Adna is releasing the single “Lonesome”, which is another taste of her forthcoming album “Run, Lucifer” (release March 18th). Since she’s so great I take the opportunity to add another two songs. First “Living”, which was released in November as the first single from “Run, Lucifer” and then “Thank God For Sending Demons”, which is a wonderful interpretation of Kleerup’s song.

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The Italian String Machine

Italian String Machine – “New Nostalgia” – EP

The duo Italian String Machine, Victor Hvidfeldt and Joel Lindström, are releasing their  debut EP “New Nostalgia” on Monday. “Nostalgic futurism and dance to a Vangelis soundtrack” they write about the four songs on the EP. And I can certainly hear the eighties nostalgia with quite a dose of synth pop from that decade, while some other touches suggest that they have the other foot in the electro pop soil of today. I presented one of the songs, the excellent “Neuromancer”, last time I wrote about them, but the other songs are just as good. Here are two of them:

Daniel & Daniel – “The Code of Colour” – EP

Daniel Lindquist and Daniel Forsberg form the duo Daniel & Daniel and have recently released their fourth EP, “The Code of Colour”, recorded in a barn in the deep forests of Småland, close to Markaryd. They have created their own experimental rock brew where psychadelia is an obvious ingredient, but also with a taste of progressive and alternative rock. Here are two of the tracks:

Reveries – “Tip of Your Tongue”

Reveries come from Linköping and have released this single, “Tip of Your Tongue”, a large-sounding pop track with post rock tendencies. A new single is on it’s way soon.

Adna – “Night”

Adna, whom I wrote about in the end of last year, released her debut album “Night” just a little while ago. Here’s the title track from the album, filled to the brim with beautiful melancholy.

Franskild – “Clockworks”

Franskild is a house duo that consist of Love Ojensa and Tim Söderström. Their first release this year is this suggestive, melancholic electro pop song “Clockworks”, which appeals, at least to me, a lot more than the high octane house music popular today.

Adna is a pleasant new acqaintance who released two singles during Summer and last year her debut EP. She has just finished high school and is now focusing on the music, first of all on the debut album which is being released in the end of this year, from what I understand. Quiet and soft, but far from insecure, accompanied by echoing guitars from the eighties, she slowly moves inte my room with her folk-vibing singer/songwriter songs, which grows upon me each time I listen. I will certainly be interesting to listen to her debut album.

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