Tiger Lou – “California Hauling” EP

After a break since 2009 Tiger Lou popped up a again a year ago with the single “Homecoming #2“. This Autumn they have followed up with the EP “California Hauling”, aiming for a full length album next year. It’s a most welcome comeback where they sooth our ear canals and embed us all in a warm Autumn blanket with their new sound. Here’s the title track of the EP:

Tiger Lou on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Pretties For You – “Heart”

Another band that I’m happy to hear more from is Pretties For You, hailing from Göteborg. Last year they released the debut album “We Have Our Reasons” and now in the Autumn they continued with the two-track single “Heart”. Here’s the title song, a sweet 80’s-vibing song with synthpop disco and a wonderful, dramatic expression from singer Martina Forsgren.

Pretties For You on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Violet Days – “Screaming Colors”

Their single “So Dope” from earlier this year, was quite a hit on the net and now they have followed up with the single “Screaming Colors”, which you can listen to here below. It’s a piece of catchy, almost bombastic pop which the singer Lina Hansson describes as “the feeling when you realize that you gotta break out of that darkness inside of your head and actually open up your eyes and look around you.”.

Violet Days on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Mind – “Song of Circles”

The band Mind, hailing from Malmö, have made their debut with this cool song and video, “Song of Circles”. Ola Salo and Jens Andersson have produced the song and the video was directed by Lena Shkoda in Kiev, Ukraine.

Mind on Facebook

 

Postiljonen – “The Open Road”

I believe many are looking forward to Postiljonen’s second album, “Reverie”. It’s scheduled to be released on the 19th of February next year, and here they are with another taste from the album.

Postiljonen on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

Solblomma – “Bridgemaster”

Solblomma has stepped out of the electro pop for a moment with this sweet piano ballad, where the bridgemaster gets some company in his solitude.

Solblomma’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

Maria Hazell – “Golden Boy”

Maria Hazell made her debut last year with the single “Say It Like You Mean It”, a song that has been spun more one and a half million times on Spotify and also gave her a nomination as “Rookie Artist of the Year” on The Dennis Pop Awards. Recently she released the single “Golden Boy” along with this video.

Maria Hazell on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

Navelin – “Daydream”

Navelin has taken the song “Daydream from their new EP “Side One” and supplied it with an animated music video. The video was created by Michael Zauner, who earlier has worked with artists like Arctic Monkeys and Tame Impala among others.

Navelins site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

The Honey Ants – “Lies”

The London duo Honey Ants has released the single “Lies” with an accompanying music video. It’s a great video with a story to their Americana-vibing song, taken from their debut EP “EP1”.

The Honey Ants on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

Bird – “Thrill Me”

Bird has released the album “Figments of Our Imagination”, an album produced by the Rolling Stones producer Chris Kimsey and where Bird plays all the instruments on the album. “Thrill Me” is one of the songs from the record that has been accompanied by a music video, a song with a nice tension in a lo-fi-sounding verse which bursts open in a sweet pop chorus.

Bird on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

 

Nomad – “Fakka Me Mej”

The rapper Nomad, hailing from Lund is underway with his debut EP and has released the single “Fakka Me Mej” as a first taste. It’s an ambitious video which almost feels like an action movie trailer, an outburst from a song with a style he calls punk trap.

Nomad on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

Today Joachim Dahlbergs Vindkraft is releasing the second single from the upcoming album “Med blod som bläck”. It’s the song “Tankekraft”, which is also the song that made me stop and react to the power of Joachim’s music. Here is his story about the song:

– I wrote Tankekraft about five years ago in a small flat in Hägersten I rented from Syster Sol. It was right in the beginning of maybe the most difficult period of my life, and I’ve probably never felt so bad as I did then. The reason for that is what the upcoming album, which I have named “Med blod som bläck”, is all about. 10 songs, and each one of them is about the same thing, in kind of a chronologically told story drawn from my own experiences. Tankekraft, which is part four of the story, was the first song I wrote for the project, and it’s one of the first songs I ever wrote in Swedish. It may also be the most angry song I have.
(transl. from Swedish)

Joachim Dahlbergs Vindkraft’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

On Monday Bellaroush will release the new EP “Stems Project I”. It’s a follow-up to the band’s excellent album in Spring, and contains 4 different, great remixes from producers like Wahlström & Valiant, Annelie, Lifespan and Imagine Me. I have the pleasure to present one of the tracks in advance, this glitchy and suggestive soul beauty created by Lifespan. Here is “Until You Choke” in a new version:

Bellaroush on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music

About a year ago Magnus Bergman’s daughter Alva was born. There, in the middle of the baby happiness and the joys of Christmas, an uneasiness started to grow inside of him, an uneasiness coloured by the dark tidings around the world, and that wouldn’t let go. When hate has rooted itself in the middle of our safe little corner of the world, like black streams through a beautiful landscape, the image of the future starts to blur and darken. Magnus did what he does best, and started a new musical project which he called Natten.

Natten is a work in three parts which will be accompanied by an artfilm made by the filmmakers Anno 800 from Falun. The entire project will be released in January but already this week he has released the first part of the song, which you can listen to here below. Saga Björling (Poeta Magica, Jordbrand, Rotation) and her wonderful voice joins him in a ballad where Magnus release all his musical warmth. At the same time dissonant harmonies creep into all these moving emotions. Still the song feels warm and hopeful, like a Christmas song where the music itself in it’s powerful expression answers the desperate questions.
You can follow the project on Magnus’ blog.

Magnus Bergman on Facebook – on Spotify – on Apple Music