A couple of years ago Johan (singing and dancing), Erik (guitars), Stefan (drums) and Erik (bass) realized that music wasn’t fun anymore. So they started The Fix.

I may sound a little backwards, but I guess it was about getting back to the very reason they started playing music: to have fun with music, no more no less. And maybe about not taking oneself too seriously.

And sure it feels like they’re having fun, both in their online adventures and in their music, now represented with the EP “The Great Epic Tease”, a predecessor to the upcoming album to be released in Fall.

It’s party rock with energy, some Red Hot Chile Peppers, a pinch of Foo Fighters, catchy choruses with drive and good melodies. If you’d like to continue to consider the question “Do You Need The Fix?” after this post, you can visit their site, Facebook page, and listen on Spotify or on Youtube.

DCAL
How You Doing?

Niels Nielsen released the album “”Welcome To The Promising Land of Hi5ers and Hopeless People” earlier this year. A rather dark album, which at first was hard to get into, but after giving it som more attention a very special album and artist appeared in front of me.

He moves somewhere in between Radiohead’s experimenting disted world and Beck’s lo-fi-acoustic work. Mixing dark disorted tracks with electronica and acoustic songs. Quite unique to my ears and varied.

Listen on Spotify and visit his site.

Crawling Home
The Birds

Gustaf Montelius presents his solo project The Fiery Piano as bedroom pop music. A little more than a month ago he released “Sirens EP”, an album recorded in his bedroom, full of beautiful and personal music.

It’s mellow, but still with a feeling of warmth together with nice melodies and a special voice. You can listen and download the EP on his Bandcamp page or listen on Spotify. You can also find The Fiery Piano on his site.

Siren

Here’s a summer pop song in Swedish from Julia Järnerud, who’s now recording her debut album. Follow Julia on Facebook or on her blogg.

Äntligen

Juni Järvi takes me back to the early sixites, to grand orchestra ballads and pop tunes with ageless melodies, lush strings and horns. I hear a breath from girl groups like Shirelles et al, but also from constume-wearing gentlemen like Jim Reeves and Paul Anka.

I’m listening to Juni’s album “The Gospel” from last year, which is a great company, and performed in a very personal way. One of the highlights from the album is a duet with Annika Norlin in the song “(I Love It When You Call Me” Baby)”, which you can listen to here below in a Youtube-clip. Markus Krunegård also appears in a song on the album.

Juni writes that next weel, on the 1st of June at  22.30 will stream live from his concert at Södra Bar in Stockholm. You can watch the show on his Bambuser channel or on Juni Järvi’s blog.

Listen more to Juni Järvi on his site or on Spotify.

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