Here’s a song with great soul vibes, “Headshake” from Saturday, Monday in collaboration with singer Julia Spada. Here’s from the release text about Saturday, Monday:
Saturday, Monday is the instrumental autobiography of young Swedish uk-bass-dj / club promoter Ludvig Parment. This is the second taste we get from his debut album The Road and The Ocean and The End planned for early 2013 release. The new single is called Headshake and features the singer Julia Spada who’s previous work with the band O’Spada received praise from the likes of Annie Mac, Mark Ronson and The Guardian.
A little while ago the synth pop band Storbritannien released the EP Taiga, three songs where I’ve written before about the excellent starting track Domino. They were kind enough to give me an alternative version of the second song on the EP, “Min sista syn” (“My last vision”, a version that I like more than the one that ended up on the EP. Listen for yourself and compare here below, where you’ll find the original version as a video.
Furthermore, a couple of weeks ago they released a new song, “Vi” (“We), as a music video, somewhat different in the mood of what we’ve heard before from the band.
Swedish-Finnish Peter Hägerstrand has worked with music since the beginning of the nineties. First as an artist in bands like Good Evening Manchester and Jupiter Park, and later first of all as a composer for film, TV and also for the theatre. He has continued to write pop songs, though, and decided to release a solo album, which was released earlier this year and was called “och jag hör musik” (“and I hear music”).
There are 10 songs in Swedish which take me to the seventies’ British and Swedish pop scene. Maybe mostly the Swedish one, where I hear Ted Gärdestad, Harpo and something of Svensktoppen. It’s uplifting pop with melancholic turns, catching melodies and a well-sounding, slightly nostalgic production. You’ll find a taste from it here below.
Hundhuvet, whom I wrote about last year, is back with a new EP, “Spårar ur”; four songs which sounds even better than before. I like Hundhuvet (Dog’s head), but I find it hard to put my finger on what makes them special with their melancholic indie pop. The singer, Fredrik Trossö, who performs the dark, sometimes word-rich lyricsin his own way, certainly holds one part of the explanation.
They tell me that their band name comes from one of their earliest songs, which contained the line: “jag tar på mig all skuld och skam och sånt som inte klär mig” (transl. “I take all the blame and shame and things that doesn’t suit me”), which leads to the Swedish expression “att bära hundhuvudet” (“to be the scapegoat”).
Here’s a wonderful piece of electro pop from LCTRISC, “Ticket”, which they released a little more than a month ago. As a bonus we also get the “multifaceted” music video, which possibly could be experienced as a mix of improvisation theatre, The Godfather, Laurel and Hardy and Swedish summer. :) Love it!
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