Rebstar

It’s Friday and the end of the week, so I thought I’d gather some news from this week I haven’t had the time to present yet. Here’s some more great music:

Stilett – debut album

Stilett is the name of a new punk band formed by Adam Nilsson from Tysta Mari and Crippe Määtä from Bombshell Rocks. Joined by Thomas Åberg (Twopointeight) and Inge Johansson (International Noise Conspiracy) they have released their debut album today. Here’s a taste of it:

Hurula – “Sluta deppa mig”

Robert Hurula, former front man in Masshysteri, is now going solo and have recorded an album to be released later in Spring.”Sluta deppa mig” is the first single from the record:

The Bland – “Changes”

I called the former street musicians The Bland’s folk and Americana-inspired music irresistable, the last time I wrote (called The Bland Band then) about them. And I still think it is when I listen to their new single “Changes”, which you can listen to here below. The song adverts their debut album “Strangers on the Side of the Street” which will be released next Friday.

Rebstar – “Simple”

Here’s some hip hop from Malmö, from the artist Rebstar. He released this single “Simple” this week, which is the first one from his upcoming album, which will be his third full length album.

Century of Ecstasy – “The City Of You”

Century of Ecstasy calls himself lo-fi-artist and shows us what he means by that on the debut single “The City Of You”, released yesterday. It’s a beautiful, soft piano ballad with a sound that could have been inspired by John Lennon from the early seventies.

Tom Levin is on his way with his fifth album the 29th of January. It’s called “Them Feet” and to tempt us he has released the roots-sounding title track as a single. Listen and enjoy:

Tom Levin’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara

It’s been three years since Case Conrad released the debut album “Dew Point“, which is of course far too long to wait for the next one. Gustav Haggren and co have been touring frequently around the world since then, though, and while touring collected material for the new album “Leikko”, which was released in October. I was really looking forward to hearing new music from the band, and I wasn’t disappointed; it’s quite an enjoyable collection of songs they have created.

I recognise the Americana-sounding pop, but now in a bigger sound costume, softer and even more dreamy. Strings and horns join in on some arrangements and new is also that Gustav sometimes hands over the lead vocals microphone to Per Henrik Adolfsson. A couple months ago we got a sneak preview in the shape of the song “Lonelylightlylowshine“. Here’s two more excellent tracks from the record:

Case Conrad’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Bandcamp

And now we’re changing the scene and the tempo completely from the last post, and we sit down looking out over a calm landscape where the grey skies is barely visible through the light mist and it’s getting dark soon. It’s Old Lost John, hailing from Malmö, who sets up this melancholic peaceful scene with his quiet vocals, guitar and earthy close folk-Americana on his EP “Caving In”. Here are two songs.

Old Lost John’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Bandcamp

The Glade with the singer Jonas Carping at the front have visited us before. Now they’re working on a new album, which will be released in February next year. As a warm-up they are releasing four singles this Autumn, and so far three of these warm, Americana-vibing songs have been released. Here are two of them:

The Glade’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Bandcamp