Today I’m going to use the word impressive again, this time about the debut album “Circle of Seasons” from the band Pharoes, hailing from Malmö. They serve a grand dynamic alternative rock and say they are influenced by bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More, Deftones and Soundgarden. I don’t think that they sound exactly like any of these bands, but they do have the genre mix and the dynamic changes in the songs in common.

The band name is a deliberate misspelling of the word Pharaoh’s, which came about when singer and guitarist Ebbe Eriksson was browsing through Urban Dictionary. Someone had added the misspelled “Pharoes curse” which stuck with Ebbe. They got rid of the word curse pretty fast and voila, they had a unique band name.

You can find Pharoes on their site and on Facebook. Listen to the album on Spotify and other digital services.

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It’s been almost two years since I wrote about The Faux Noise, and apparently they haven’t released any new music since then. It’s good to know then that they are back now with a new single, “Leave Her to Heaven”, which they have released together with three remixes of the song.

It’s a suggestive, dreamy song with vibes from the eighties, where they, like before, tame a sound chaos into beautiful soundscapes. You can listen to their music on their Soundcloud page and the single is also available on Spotify. You can follow the band on their site and on Facebook.

Leave Her to Heaven

Drivvedsfolket, hailing from Norrköping, write that they have developed their sound inspired by artists like Arctic Monkeys, Pugh Rogefeldt, The Black Keys, Florence Valentin, The Kinks et. al. They show this on their latest EP “Vilket Gäng! (“What a gang!”), which you can taste a song from here below. They sing in Swedish and sure, I do get associations from Pugh Rogefeldt as I listen, but also from Bob Hund, Arctic Monkeys and sixties’ rock, which all in all make a special mix.

The band started out in 2009 and sang originally in English. Then they called themselves Driftwood People, suggesting that they were carefree people, living for the day. That was actually an irony, as they claim to be a bunch of nervous and long-winded individuals.
When they later on started using Swedish in their songs, they simply translated the band name directly, creating a new Swedish word. So now you know what drivvedsfolk means in Swedish. Maybe.

You can listen to Drivvedsfolket on Spotify, on Wimp and on Drivvedsfolket’s Facebook page.

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Polar City is a rock trio from Malmö. Originally the band name comes from a party photo from a club, and the band members thought the name sounded cool. The meaning of the name has evolved afterwards, as is often the case, and Polar City today stands for Malmö and the members’ upbringing there.

The latest single contains a couple of hard driving post grunge songs with metal vibes, and if you go back to their debut EP you can find a wider range of influences, here below represented by the song “Killing It Like a Comedian Should”.

You can listen to their music on Spotify and the EP “Right This Minute” is available for free download on their site. You can follow Polar City on Facebook.

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Killing It Like a Comedian Should

The band name Aerials was invented when Christoffer Franzén was considering different words that described the music that was inside his head: Airy, space, cinematic, melodic. The word Aerials popped up and he felt that it had just the right touch for what he wanted to express.

The music he then produced does feel a lot like he described it to himself. There’s an airy sound with post rock vibes often running for grand crescendos. He alternates between instrumental songs, that certainly could fit well in movies, and songs with vocals. He tells that sometimes a melody comes to him and sometimes not, and when it does he sees himself as an involuntary singer.

You can listen to his music on Aerials’ Soundcloud page or on the Facebook page. Here is the first song he released:

Dream Away