The duo Degrees, hailing from Tranås, is back with a new album, “Dream On Dreamy”. Compared to their EP “Pt III”, which I wrote about last year, they don’t hold back on anything this time. It’s grand pop from the beginning to the end, bombastic enough to fill out the sound space on any big arena.

Last time I called it synth pop, but I feel now that they have passed the limits of where I would place them just within the electronica spheres, even if these intruments are still central. It’s grandiose pop with a lot of warmth and melody on this even and strong album. An album which reach a crescendo in the 8 minute long “Idiot Dreaming” and then takes us down to dreamy soundscapes to the finishing track “Dream On Dreamy”.

You can listen and download the album on their Bandcamp page. You can also visit their site, their Facebook page or listen on Spotify. Here’s a song and a video from the album:

At Least Rock & Roll Won’t Leave a Hole In My Back

The howler monkeys in Alouatta was a great discovery in the early days of this blog. Now they’ve finally presented a follow-up, the EP “DIY”. And more, they also promise a new full length album in the near future.

And they don’t disappoint me. It’s head-on, energic, messy rock, maybe with some more retro vibes from the early seventies than before, and with Karl Buhre’s special vocals in the front, like he’s a kind of frenetic reincarnation mix of  Hendrix and Lynott.

You can find Aloutatta on Facebook and you can listen to the EP together with the older tracks on Spotify.

DIY

Acid House Kings release another song from their latest album “Music Sounds Better With You”. It’s “Under Water”, with lots of summer vibes and with most of the ingredients needed for a classic pop song.
Listen for yourself and download below.

Under Water

Hundhuvet is an interesting band from Malmö which plays a nice, messy, Skåne-Swedish-mellow indie pop with vocals in skånska (Swedish dialect). In April they recorded the song “Drömmarna slår alltid fel”, a great song which maybe points out a new direction for the band?

It’s a cleaner production and a song with a nice drive, but with same mellowness as before. They speak about heavy subjects but in the hands of Hundhuvet they become, not only manageable, but also (which is an interesting part about music) enjoyable.

You can find Hundhuvet on Facebook, and on their Bandcamp page and on Spotify you can listen to their four-track EP.

Drömmarna slår alltid fel

Here’s the debut single from a new, young indie rock band, The So’Mores.

If you like it you can follow the band on their Facebook page.

The Last Time