BOA, hailing from Göteborg, are releasing an EP this week. It’s called “Time Flies” and consists of three songs: one newly written, on from their songwriting archives and one live remake of an earlier album song. Great songs all of them, even if I enjoy the new track “Played My Part” the most, a song which breathes of both early eighties-pop and indie from today, all of it with a pleasant sound.
BOA’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud
Today Turn Off Your Television release a video to their latest, beautiful single “Between the Lines”, which I wrote about earlier. The video is made by Valentina Mazzarelli Rayo from The Good Morning Spider.
Turn Off Your Television’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Bandcamp
Efterklang
The Roskilde Festival is an excellent occasion for me to get out of my bubble of mainly Swedish indie music, where you normally find me. During the year I continually listen to all music tips I get about Swedish artists, and there is little time left for anything else. Even so, I feel that I’m only scratching the surface of this area, limited also by my own taste and by what I think I have some kind of understanding of. I guess I have sligthly more insight than most people of my niche, but outside of that I feel rather lost.
There are Swedish artists performing att The Roskilde Festival, like for example Lykke Li, Postiljonen, Chords, Wintergatan, Woodlands and Elliphant, but they are few and some of them play early in the week before I arrive on Thursday. So I’m listening to all the other artists to be able to make some kind of schedule for what I want to see. Of course I have to sync this with my daughter’s wish list, which goes quite well I must say, probably because both of us have a broad music menu and love to discover new niches.
Well, width is a keyword if you’d like to describe the festival’s range of music. And then it’s not only about that they serve you everything from doom-metal to country to house to indie pop and everything in between; it’s also about where the artists come from. It is like the organizers chose the biggest paint brush they could find to paint with as many colors as possible on the relatively small pop-canvas that Roskilde represent. I was fascinated when I studied the list of artists, discovering that they came from Finland, Danmark, Hungary, Mali, Brasil, Colombia, Egypt, USA, Etiopia, South Korea, Iceland, Bosnia, Pakistan, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Norway, UK, Australia, Marocko, New Zeeland, Estonia, Angola, Portugal, Puerto Rico, France, Niger, Germany and Canada (I probably have forgotten to name some countries), and I wondered how they could fit all this into the festival.
Today I thought that I would present some artists from our neighbours Denmark, which is just a few steps from where I live here in the south of Sweden, and naturally there are quite a few Danish artists performing at the festival. It’s been on my mind for some time to dive into the Danish music scene, but I haven’t had the time so far. Here are a few of those that I will try to watch:
Three childhood friends started this band in 2000. Big, warm sound spaces, beautiful pop with a stillness that sometimes reminds me of Black.
Creative electronica which moves from smooth pop melodies to ambient crisp sound experiments.
Danish is a fantastic language for pop music, and it doesn’t get more heartfelt and beautiful than with Marie Key in this big-sounding singer/songwriter pop.
Defies all genre description in a crazy mix of musical escapades, which I feel just have to be fantastic to experience live. From experimental excursions to great melodies. Unfortunately they play at the same time as Queens of The Stone Age, so it will be hard to choose.
Gracious, beautiful electro soul.
The artist name A.M.E. is an acronym for the artist and actress Anna Maria Engberg. In 2010 she recorded a number of songs that were supposed to become a full length album. A collaboration that was terminated ended this work, though, but she took it in her own hands and together with the film maker Andreas Johansson she recorded videos to 7 seven of the songs and released it as a video album. The album is simply called “The Video Album”. Lovely, creative videos with a lot of play with light, shadows and silouettes to her somewhat minimalistic, beautiful and personal indie pop. Listen to and watch some of the songs here below.
A.M.E.:s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud – on Youtube
Here’s some big-sounding indie pop/rock from Beat The Heart, hailing from Stockholm, who have released their debut EP “Glebe Market”. They have created a comfortable sound in these rather soft songs, large but with moderated arrangements, into which they have put some more ingredients: a little bit of the sixties, some folk and a dose of the eighties. A quite promising debut.
Beat The Heart on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud
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