Well, let’s celebrate Christmas this year too here on Meadowmusic. And then with some Christmas songs you may not have heard before, at least not in the version you’ll find here.
The tracks we presented last year are of course good for this Christmas too.
Maybe you will find a new Christmas favourite or maybe you will find an artist you want to listen more to.
Well, here’s our gift and Merry Christmas!
/Pär
Ola Angleby is a quite busy artist. In addition to the duo Swedish Shoes, which I wrote about in spring, and the band Jane Gulliou, he also has a band in his own name. Different from the other projects, in this one he sings in Swedish instead of English.
Their sound is also different, here in their own mix of grand mellow pop and young indie pop/rock. But they don’t dig too deep in the melancholy, but get up front on stage shouting out their frustrations.These skilled musicians released an EP earlier this year and you can listen to the songs on Ola Angleby’s Myspace page.
Here you can taste two tracks:
Pallet pallar inte mer
Jag var inte jag
Marching Band‘s music is perfect today. Their easy-going, uplifting indie pop is fighting away the winter cold, steadily marching forward with the two drum majors Erik Sunbring and Jacob Lind in the front.
I’m listening to their first full length album “Spark Large”, which was released last year. At first I came to think about Belle and Sebastian, with the lightness and playfulness in the music. But here I meet more layered arrangements, full of beautiful vocal harmonies and quite a few nice surprises.
Several of the songs from the album have found their way into american movies and TV shows, among them “Feel Good About It”, which could be heard in the movie “Zombieland” this autumn.
You can find Marching Band on their site and if you’d like to listen to more songs you should visit Marching Band’s Myspace page. Here are a couple of tracks from “Spark Large”:
Mixtapes & Cellmates has recently released their new album “Rox”. They offer a nice warm indie pop, with a little rough edges and dense sound which is easy to listen to.
You can listen more on their Myspace page, and if you have Spotify you can listen to the entire album there.
Here’s the song “Soon” from “Rox”, both as a video and as an mp3 track:
Soon:
In August Epelectric opened for Moto Boy and Anna Maria Espinosa at Stockholms kulturfestival. Since then the band have been quite busy with a lot of gigs and in October they released their debut singel, the song “Founded”, which you can listen to here below.
It’s easy to get hooked on the energic rock they present with “Founded”, and apparently the music company X5 Music Group also got caught by the song, as they during the autumn signed a deal with Epelectric to collaborate in the year to come.
You can find Epelectric on their Myspace page or on Facebook.
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