“It started as a small annoyance over the mess in the local supermarket. Speaking on the phone we agreed it was better to write a pop song about the situation rather than burning the shop down. And so we did.”

That’s how Skånske Arne & Jonny Spöge tell us the story about how they started. The influences come from the so called “Klippan-popen” with bands like Torsson, Kommisarie Roy and Noise. They also mention Wilmer X and I feel that there’s also an obvious link to Kal P. Dal.

As you have read in the introduction it’s also about lyrics with social criticism, even if they have promised songs where they don’t complain about anything. In their first official release, “Gula lådan” (“The yellow box”), they tell us about “a serious problem, which in the long run threatens to bring down our entire civilization”, i.e. the lack of yellow boxes nowadays around Sweden. (a note for international readers: yellow box=letter box) As they state: “Important documents run the risk of not arriving to their destination because of the lack of letter boxes!”

Enjoy the song here below, and also a brilliant music video they released recently. You can meet the duo at their site.

Gula lådan

”Momoism – A playful idea about mixing high and low, the electronic and the organic, sparkling colours and dance rhythms.” That’s how Momofoko explains the title of their new album “Momoism”, to be released tomorrow.

Dance floor rock with funk guitars, a lot of classic disco vibes and a dash of electro will probably get a lot of stiff legs moving on Momofoko’s live shows. Add then some nice pop melodies and Mårten Holst cool voice.

Last summer the band released the EP ““Not now!…Now?”” and now it’s time for the debut album “Momoism”. You can keep track of the band on their site and on their Facebook page. Here are two songs from the album:

What You Want to Hear
Still Need to Dance

Today it gets really soft together with the band Norbert med vänner (“Norbert with friends”), hailing from Örebro. Singer/songwriter-pop with american influences comes to my mind and also Damien Rice in the voice and the tasteful arrangements.

The band was formed a little more than a year ago and has released a three-track EP, “12th of May”, produced by Simon Ljungman, and which is available on Spotify and on Myspace. You can also find them on Facebook.

12th of May
Cellmate

Three years ago Nutmeg released their hardcore-pop album “Trigger”. Now they’re on the move again with a new album, “Basement Riot”, which seems to be more or less ready, at least when it comes to the recordings.

As a first peek of the album they release a single today, “Space”, which will be celebrated with a release party at Fritz’s Corner in Stockholm this Wednesday, where you also can buy the single on a limited vinyl edition.

Normally I am not that into hardcore, but this I really liked (and not only because I like to use Nutmeg in the food):

Space

You can also listen to the song and the earlier album “Trigger” on Nutmeg’s Bandcamp page. Follow the band on their site and on Facebook.

And I just had to add this cool animated video of  “Oh Oh Ooh!” from their last album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWwi6xaOQ4

A little more than a month ago, Sagabond released their new album “Easy Rhymes and Metaphors”. The band has now grown to a septet with a wide range of instruments: vocals, guitars, violin, cello, saxophone, piano, bass, drums.

If the recordings we wrote about before had a live-feeling in the production, this is more a skilled studio production. The folk vibes remain and are even amplified and altogether the album turns out to be a beautiful collection of five songs of indie folk-pop with nice melodies and arrangements where they really use all the instruments to colour the music.

You can listen to the album on Spotify or on Deezer and you can follow the band on Facebook. You can also find some tracks on Soundcloud. Here is “Echoes”:

Echoes