Under the category “singles that preceeds soon upcoming album” we find Anna Roxenholt’s New Found Land with the song “Mirror”. Since a couple of days the song is also available on an EP with the same name, containg “Mirror”, three remixes and the song “Let Go”.  The new album will be out on the first of March.

New Found Lands hemsida – på Facebook – på Spotify – på Wimp – på Soundcloud

It’s been a lot of tasting of upcoming albums this month, and today is no exception. It’s about Grande Roses who, after ten year of playing together and four EP:s, are going to release their first full length album, “Disease”. It’ll be out on the third of April, and a couple of days ago they released the first single, “Bullets”, which you can listen to here below.

Since I wrote about the band the last time in 2010, they have had time to sign a contract with EMI, and also to see it be canceled, just two weeks before they were going to enter the studio to record the album. They decided, though, to continue on their own.

The band’s singer and lyrics writer, Göran Messelt Andersson, writes:

I was so damn’ tired of it all. Bitter, Tired. Black. Everything has come to be about money. To create – to destroy. I realised that if there’s money to get, something needs to be sacrificed. If someone brings a contract and wants you to sign it, then there’s almost always a reason not to do it. That’s basically what  “Bullets” is about.
(transl. from Swedish)

And there’s not doubt about the dark feelings in this song, where they produce a blackness in the vicinity of Sisters of Mercy, with a sound that makes me think of new wave rock from  the eighties, but with a dirty layer on top which still leaves one leg standing in indie rock soil of today. The album title track “Disease” is also available to listen to on their pages, a song that is just as great as “Bullet”.

Grande Roses’ site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud

I wrote about Henrik von Euler in the beginning of the month, as a member of the duo Dödens Dal. Simultaneously he’s also preparing the next album from his solo project Rigas, which is to be released March 13th. And here’s a first taste of that album: the song “Hundra År Av Vinter” (“Hundred Years of Winter”) where he gets help with the vocals from Kajsa Grytt, an excellent combo in this somewhat punkish indie electronica.

Rigas site – on Spotify – on Wimp

Hundra År Av Vinter

Here’s a song and a video which was released in the beginning of December. It’s the band  Norma who, with the song “Joan”, gives us a first taste of the new album “The Invisible Mother”, scheduled for release this week. Great song and video with an interesting sound where they blend synth pop, dreamy vibes and a filmic, dramatic feeling.

Norma’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

I’m glad to know that Sidechild is underway with a new album. It’s been three years since the last album and Pontus Andersson’s solo project has turned into a duo where Jonatan Sjögren now also is a member. The album “There Were Cracks” will be released on February 20th, but you can taste some of it already now in the single “Take It Leave It”, a neat, catchy  pop tune with nice soul-groovy choirs in the chorus.

Sidechild’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp