This week De Montevert released a single from her upcoming album, an album which will be released on the 2nd of December. It’s a low key indie tune that warms in the Autumn chill, with a tale she performs with an everyday simplicity and uprightness which makes it feel authentic.

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I thought I’d beat the drum for an album released in June today, i.e. Emerald Park’s latest creation “GO!GO!GO!”. Like they announced beforehand it is an album where they made plenty of more space for electronica. The result feels like a vitamin injection to the band’s music, a melting pot of influences where retro sounding analogue synths coexist with disted indie guitars, carrying everlasting, high class pop melodies. It is probably the most varied album I’ve heard from the band, and the influence from two different great producers, Ola Frick of Moonbabies and Carl Granberg, can be sensed in the songs. It’s one of the best pop albums I’ve heard this year, and the only problem I have with it is that it’s way too short.

Emerald Park on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music – on Bandcamp

Max Bergström joined forces with the Irishman Dave Behan and created the duo Little White Things. Today they released the debut single “Step Back” with a folk- and 60’s-influenced indiepop with a nice soaring chorus hook with vocal harmonies.

Little White Things on Facebook – on Apple Music

Jonas Schwartz writes that he’s in a writing and recording phase right now. This new song, “Nobody”, is complementing the music he released last year on the excellent electronica driven pop album “Xpedition”, but he says it doesn’t fit with the new music he’s working on. So, he released it as a single, which we are grateful for of course.

Jonas Schwartz on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Honeymilk released this pearl of a song in the beginning of this month, “Psychrocker”, a duet with De Montevert. That they can make shaky, squeaking guitars sound this beautiful is an accomplishment in itself. It’s liberating with a band who doesn’t polish their sound as the audience and the ambitions grow. Honeymilk is in fact doing the opposite and doesn’t hesitate to push the boundaries further. Still, they are catchier than ever. With the song they also show that they have sense of humour and self irony:

Honeymilk wanted to write a song about “people with more arrogance than they merit. People with a bigger idea of themselves, than their talent can live up to,” the band says. When they had finished writing the song, they came to the conclusion – to their greatest disappointment – that they actually wrote it about no other than themselves. “Psychrocker is simply a tribute to Honeymilk.”

Honeymilks site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music