Petter Seander – “Til Death Do Us Apart”
After the solo debut last year with the album “The Denial of Me, Myself & I” Petter Seander now continues with the follow-up album “Til Death Do Us Apart”. Petter is mostly known for playing with Kristian Anttila during the last 6 years. I have listened way too little to Kristian to be able to compare the two of them, but it’s clear that mr. Anttila participates on the album, which may not come as a surprise after such a long collaboration.
Despite the heavy subject the new album is full of energy and playfulness. At first the similar beat on some of the songs gave me a feeling of repetitiveness, but pretty soon it all started to dissolve into individual parts of energic indie pop with a nice variation, even though the breathing spaces on the album in the songs “My Fumbling Hands”, “Turn Out All the Lights” and the finishing “This Is Where It All Ends” come in handy and feel like some of the highlights on an even and good album.
My favourite tracks have varied somewhat but right now I’d say that “Can’t Stop Me Now” and “Whispering Pines” fancy me the most. You can discover this for yourself on Spotify and you can follow Petter Seander his site and on Facebook.
When Something Dies
Lost For Good
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Shotgun Crackers is back with new music. They released their debut album in Spring and now they follow this with the three-track EP, “Lockdown PT. 1”. It seems like they’re planning a series of EP:s in the time to come, instead of heading directly for a new full length album.
“Down Down Down” is the name of Gustav Nilsson’s first single from upcoming album “Makeup On Letdowns Off”, scheduled for release this month.
When the first song “Silhouettes” starts on the trio Desertsongs’ new album, I’m swept into a nice mellow ambience that smells of Autumn nights. This melancholy stays over the entire album, which also gives me the sensation that it’s part of a soundtrack to a classic movie drama. Some of this feeling comes from the storytelling in the songs and the singer Minna Bolin’s special tone and jazz feeling in her voice.
It feels quite different to write this post, to say the least. And that’s because Bus Stop Dreams is my own band. Well, not only my band, but also my colleague Lasse Thomasson’s and several other members’. My first thoughts was to hand this over to someone else to write about, or to not write at all, but then I thought that this blog is very much about me presenting music I like, so why not write it myself?
