It’s been a couple of years since I wrote about the duo Grapell. Meanwhile they have released some new singles where “Arrow” last year became a hit for them. That opened the door to the American market with the help of an American label, and the new single “Every Time” was also premiered on Beats 1 with Zane Lowe. This song is the second single from their upcoming EP “Love Chamber”, to be released on September 30th. Here they slow down the pace even further and make the time stop för a moment as Emil Erstrand picks out his most beautiful falsetto in this soul-tinged piece of cotton pop.
Gus By Heart is on his way with the new album “Ocean Spirit”, to be released on the 8th of October. This week he came out with this single, “Train In the Sky”, which promises a lot for the record. I’m also taking the opportunity to add the beautiful track “Belong”, which he released earlier this month with Adna joining him on vocals.
Amason is a band with members from Little Majorette, Dungen, Miike Snow, Hajen and Idiot Wind. Last year they released an EP and earlier this year a couple of excellent singles. Now they let us taste the new song “Duvan”, which will be released officially through the american label Fairfax Recordings on the 28th of October. Their further plans include the release of the debut album “Sky City” in the beginning of 2015. Here’s the new song plus two of the earlier songs.
The duo Grapell charmed us last month with a piece of great soul. Now they have launched the next single, “Best Friend”, a real Autumn warmer. On the 8th of October they are releasing the EP “Friends”.
Stalon consists of the three brothers Viktor, Philip and Kristoffer Jonsson. They are also closing in on the launch of their debut album “Ingen annanstans” and have so far released two singles to show us what they’re up to. “Jag kapitulerar” came out this week and “1992” earlier in summer, presenting a nice melodic, a bit nostalgic pop in Swedish.
If you go to Jämtland you may find this new band, 20 Years of Wednesday. They have just released this music video to their song “Time”, a song full of uplifting, energic, dense indie pop.
“Blickar kan mörda” is a song Josef Johanssón wrote together with Orup, and which was released last month. This week he presented this wonderful music video, a video he directed himself.
Long time no see. It’s been more than one and a half month since I posted. As I’ve been out on the road in Europe most of the time, without Internet connection, I haven’t even listened to music for quite some time. In the end I got such an abstinence that I just had to find a place with w-fi, put my headphones on, put on a playlist with new music and just dwell in this for a couple of hours. Probably my best listening experience this year. I guess I had to rest my ears for a while, find some new motivation and lust to take on a new music season.
So, let’s start today.
I have told you before about the duo Dödens Dal’s project about inviting singers to put lyrics on and perform songs from the duo’s last album. First up was Jenny Wilson with “Under lager av is” and now it’s Peter Morén’s (Peter, Björn & John) turn. The song is called “Måste det vara så?”, the original title is “Över fältet, mot ljusen”, and it’s another hit in this interesting project.
It’s unusual to meet songs in this way, first as an instrumental, and then as someone else’s interpretation lyricswise. I can compare it with reading a book, creating your own images, and then looking at the book-based movie, where you have to struggle with mixing your own interpretation with the director’s. An added song track can of course change a song to something completely different, but what happens here is that both Jenny and Peter add another layer to the ambience that’s already there, but at the same time add images and places that wasn’t there when I listened originally. Next month they will release an EP with more artists and songs, which will be exciting to explore.
Here’s a fresh single release from the duo Grapell. “Shaping My Love” is wonderful, warm soul pop with a touch of the eighties. The song is taken from the EP “Friends”, to be released on the eighth of October.
Alexandria is a band from Stockholm I wrote about last year, when they sent me the rehearsal room-recorded “Whatever”. Now they are signed to a label and have recently released their debut EP “Laid Back Forever EP”, about a week ago. The earlier song “Whatever” is there in the company of three other songs, in a sound that feels like indie pop inspired by the seventies, a bit in the direction of psychadelia, with distanced vocals and dreamy harmonies. There is a common denominator in the sound and the harmonies between the songs, but they vary the rhythm in an interesting way; from the nice soul-tasting groove in the title track to a more straight rock beat in “Secret Beach”, with it’s hooky guitar figure. A fun and great debut to listen to. Here’s “Another Station” from the record together with the video to “Secret Beach”.
Luha is the name of a Swedish-Filippino artist, who recently released her second single, “Heart”. It’s a light and pleasant pop-track with a percussion-heavy chorus that makes me think of Iida. Sung with a bright and delicate voice the reminds me of Frida Sundemo.
Last year Noras Falcon, or Elin Rosenberg which is her real name, released the debut EP “The Spark”. One of the songs from the EP, the duet with Staphan O’Bell “Kiss the Night”, made it to my “Best of 2013”-list, but it could just as well have been this song, “Sing It Out Loud”. Her new video to the song gave me the opportunity to play it again:
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