A. S. Swanski is now working with a new music project he calls “Deckare”. Each month he releases one or two songs inspired by Swedish crime novels, where he so far has put music to books like “Isprinsessan” (“The Ice Princess”) by Camilla Läckberg and Millennium by Stieg Larsson. It’s not too far from his latest album “Electro Noir”, which I wrote about then, where one of the songs even was a reference to a crime novel he had written himself. I think his own description of the music fits rather well here: “between cinematic krautrock and disturbing synth pop”.

A. S. Swanski’s site for Deckare – home page – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

The Stockholm sextet Humfree Bug Art released their debut EP “Chairlene” last year, and now they are relaunching one of the songs from the EP as a single, “With Night and Lights”. And why not? it’s a great song with an interesting sound: a grand indie pop with folk vibes, and I can hear that they really are six members. They show this in a beautiful way also in the living room-recorded “Flowers”, which you can watch here below.

Humfree Bug Arts’ site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

The Shy Lips, hailing from Göteborg, released their second EP “Nowadays” earlier this year. It’s fun to listen to this music, as it’s unpredictable, happy and with a mix of styles that gives me a sense of recognition, but when I try to catch what it is, it escapes me. There’s an intimate garage-punkish sound, with a laidback, natural attitude, like if they would have entered a stage in Manchester in the eighties as a warm-up for The Happy Mondays. They send out tentacles to the sixties, with The Kinks as the most obvious reference, there’s a dose of  The Smiths, ska-rhytms and then also indie pop vibes. Well, great music in any case.

The Shy Lips on Facebook – on Spotify – on Bandcamp

Nowadays
Nobody Cares

Here’s the Swedish-American duo Jonka with their latest single “Breathe”. Synth pop, a little laidback and lo-fi, like I recognize them from before. The song is taken from the EP “Pinks”, which was released in the beginning of the year.

Jonka’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Soundcloud

Ebbot Lundberg (from The Soundtrack of Our Lives) is going to release a solo album later this year, and this month he’s relased an EP with three songs as a first taste of what’s to come. And it tastes great. Listen for yourself in the delicious “Drowning In a Wishing Well” here below. He performed two of the songs in Plans fundraising gala on the 8th of March, and as a consequence of this all revenues from the EP during a month goes in full to Plan’s efforts for underpriviliged  girls around the world. The EP is available on Plan’s Bandcamp page.