Albin Larslin and his band called themselves Albin Larslin and The Bad Dressed Arctic Explorers before, and released the album “Holly Golightly” a year ago. Now they’ve transformed themselves into a Swedish version with the new band name Albin Larslin och Den Arktiska Expeditionen, and also started to sing in Swedish. The first single, “Så långt bort man kan komma”, was released last month and in the beginning of 2013 the next album will be presented. We’ve heard the energic pop-stomp, horns, hand claps, and replying choirs before, but they do this really well and it’s easy to start singing along with “Det var de som gjorde vapnen…”.
Here’s a new live-video made by Kvalität. It’s the indie band Sonjagon who are playing their new song “Below the Sea”. The band is working with their second album since the debut in 2009. You can listen to a demo studio version of the song below the video.
In the beginning of this year The Mary Onettes released the EP “Love Forever” with Dan Lissvik as the producer, and together they are now working on the upcoming album “Hit the Waves”, to be released on tht 12th of March next year. As a first taste of the album they launched this dreamy song with an atmosphere of the eighties, “Evil Coast”, a couple of weeks ago.
I have a lot of music on my list waiting to be presented here, so I’ll try to gather some speed before the year is over. Next artist calls himself The Key Key, but his real name is Jakob Stenseke. He’s been working as a musician in quite a different genre, where he wasn’t completely comfortable, so he quit to devote himself to his own music.
The debut album is called “Order, Disorder & Chaos” which he describes as “Synth/guitar/horns-indie pop influenced by everything from Death Cab For Cuties cozy melodies, tougher Arcade Fire heart breaks to LCD Soundsystems’ self insight irony.” A good pop album, with some really catchy tunes which sticks in my mind fast. Sometimes the sound changes a little too much between songs, which makes the album feel like it’s sprawling too much. I’d say it’s an album to enjoy by picking the goodies from it rather than listen from start to end repeatedly.
Here in Sweden we celebrate Lucia today. And on Meadow Music Sanna Hallgren will be our Lucia in the company of “starboy” Dennis Tkačuk Lundkvist, or in other words Soul of Gaia in collaboration with Adventure of in this beautiful Kate Bush-vibing duet “Two Hearts”. The single is the first one in a series of four which goes by the name “re:birth”.
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