Grenades For the Wall is a fresh new pop duo that played their debut gig in june and that has released three songs on the net this summer. Josef Melin is handling the synths, the songwriting and the production and Agnes Grahn is singing.

The sound reminds me of the the early nineties, but feels more stripped and mixed with other styles. One of the three songs, “The Soundtrack of My Life”, you can listen to here below; a nice electro-pop song with soul vibes, which accomplishes a lot with small means. “London Bridge” doesn’t feel that interesting to me, but “Fight Your Battles With Me”, on the other hand, is a really nice acquaintance. There they manage to stitch together a naked piano-pop ballad verse with a fatter souly chorus, which, the first time I listened, hit me like a little bomb and surprised me.

Listen to the songs on their Soundcloud page or on Facebook.

The Soundtrack of My Life

Navet has released the single “For the Show” from the debut album “Navet”. To make it even more interesting the original song is accompanied by a bunch of great remixes from Familjen, Simian Ghost, Lissi Dancefloor Disaster feat. OWL Vision and Adventure Of.

Here below are two of the tracks. You can find and download the others on Navet’s site or listen on Spotify.

For The Show
For The Show (Simian Ghost remix)

Art Acoustic has released a new single, “Upp till tramp”, which is the official soundtrack for Cykelsamba (“Bike samba”), which started this weekend. Cykelsamba is a manifestation for sustainable progress, in the shape of a bike ride from the south of Sweden up north through the country. You can follow the journey on Cykelsamba’s site.

This is the first song in Swedish by Art Acoustic, and they say that it’s probably not their last. Listen more to Art Acoustic on the Soundcloud page or on their site.

Upp till tramp

Leanids, hailing from Västerås, recently released their debut album, “Under the Leanids”. It’s a pleasant, laidback production which makes me think of soft rock from the beginning and the middle of the seventies with some indie vibes and an ounce of Ryan Adams.

Listen here below to two songs from the album and listen more on Spotify or on Soundcloud. You can follow Leanids on Myspace and on Facebook.

Flying
Rewind/Forward

It’s the early seventies. My friends and I have gathered on a large meadow just outside the city. We are sitting on blankets, drinking red wine, eating snacks and we enjoy the sunny summer’s day. In front of us is a stage where our buddies in the ensemble My Enhanced Little Rhubarb perform the musical “In Memory of Rupert Cloud”.

That image passes before my eyes as I listen to My Little Rhubarb’s album “In Memory of Rupert Cloud”. The story takes place in the fantasy land Rhubarbland, inhabited by a number of strange characters. Among them is Rupert Cloud, from the album title, who dies tragically when his own rhubarbs eat him, and Selma the tree who’s fallen in love with John, one of her own apples.

You can listen to the album on their Bandcamp page. You’ll also find them  on Facebook. Here are two songs from the album:

Selma’s Fourth Fall
Enter Cloudman