Already the title of Chicagojazzen’s new album “Misantropi för nybörjare” (“Misanthropy for beginners”) challenges and plants questions. And the music lives up to this challenge. It’s instrumental, experimental, lo-fi, but basically beautiful creations with contagious melody hooks and rhythms.

It feels like someone has taken a perfectly carved statue with perfect lines, and in an artistic pathos used axe, hammer and saw on it, to make it more real. Or maybe just to challenge, or expose something. Listen here below in a couple of tracks and in a live recording by SVT.
Visit Chicagojazzen on Myspace.

Dagens Outfit
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Mi Mes Favorito Es Junio (live from Berwaldhallen):

It’s been a while since I wrote about Hari and Aino here on Meadowmusic. Now they’re finally back with a new EP, “All That Remains”. If you’ve heard and liked them before, you won’t get disappointed now; it’s about good, light, pop songs that make you happy. I can feel that it trips along even lighter now; a little less of Blondie and a little more of Belle & Sebastian.

You can meet Hari and Aino on their site where you can listen to most of their recordings, and also on Spotify. Here’s a song from the EP (plus a video) to tempt your ears with:

On My Usual Catch Up With Cecilia

All That Remains:

The Faux Noise tell us that they get their inspiration from the early seventies and the music scene around Andy Warhol. And I can understand that, even though The Faux Noise’ music doesnt’ feel retro, rather like a contemporary interpretation.
The feeling I get from this is that I am in a river delta, where sound is flowing in from many directions, occasionally it’s raining, and in the middle of all this chaos I find a strong raft that safely brings me out to the sea, accompanied by beautiful melodies. Thrilling and interesting.

On their Soundcloud page you can listen to their music and also to a bunch of interesting remixes of their songs. You can also visit The Faux Noise on their site. Here is “Save Me” and the video to “I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down”:

Save Me

I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down:

I Can’t Stop Breaking You Down from The Faux Noise on Vimeo.

Heart-Sick Groans put a smile to many faces a little more than a year ago, also here on Meadowmusic. Now they are here again with the EP “Gentlemen, If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!”, and this at a time that fits the music even better. Cause it feels vernal, maybe even summerish from their nice and special folk-indie.

You can listen to and download the EP on their Bandcamp page. Here are a couple of songs:

Streetlight Chase
You Look Like Rain

Per Sahlström, who is a member of The Cortina Collective, released his album “Cross the Line” earlier this year. On his Bandcamp page you can listen to all 16 tracks from “Cross the Line”, of his multi-influenced mellow pop with indie-lofi-vibes.

You can also meet Per Sahlström on Myspace. Here are two songs from the album:

How Could I Know
Miles Away