March 22, 2011 at 5:53 pm
While waiting for a new album from Emerald Park we can now listen to their new single “Reality Bites”. Two great songs, with a somewhat new sound, where the acoustic guitars play a bigger part and everything feels more direct in a way.
Their great sense of melodies are there as before and with a hint of folk vibes I almost feel like joining the choir as I listen.
You can listen to the songs on Spotify or on Bandcamp, and if you haven’t listened to the excellent last album “For Tomorrow”, you can listen and download it on Bandcamp. You will also find Emerald Park on Facebook.
Reality Bites
March 22, 2011 at 2:17 pm
Teah’s debut album “The Art of Frying Eggs” transfers me to the nineties and the USA together with the successful female singer/songwriters who dominated the lists then, later represented in Sweden by for example Lisa Miskovsky.
You can listen to the album at Teah’s site or on Facebook. Here’s the first track “Paint the Town Red”:
Paint the Town Red
March 18, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Jonas Schwartz has a special voice. Intense, dramatic, but without overacting. It strikes me that he’s very similar to Fredrik Nilsson in Shotgun Crackers, whose tone and expression are very close to Jonas’.
The music also contains some amount of drama, I note as I go through Jonas’ strong EP trilogy from last year. Some indie, a dose of the sixties, a little bit of Göteborg and then some Weeping Willows. If that makes any sense? Listen for yourself here below in “Dream On” from the EP “Sisyphus”.
You can listen more to Jonas Schwartz on Spotify or on Myspace.
Dream On
March 17, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Today I’ve been listening to some songs from the duo Kastanj. And it’s a very pleasant new acqaintance from Lund, where Simon Lussi’s clear vocals is the first thing that catches my attention.
It’s mostly acoustic with nice melodies and sometimes I get a feeling of Swedish prog, even though I wouldn’t put the duo directly in that genre. Listen for yourself here below.
You can follow Kastanj on their site where you also can listen some more.
Kär i en karriär
Jag ser dig
March 16, 2011 at 4:39 pm
It’s finally spring in the air here in the south of Sweden. And the spring is so eager to please that it wants to blow you away as soon as you step outside. Hagaliden is also spring. They came in here and yelled at me:
“Throw out that bloody winter melancholy! Spring is here goddamnit! Out! Get out of the house and taste the air!”
“But it’s too windy…”
“Cut it out! Do you see that spot of grass over there? Go sit down with the others and have some beer and smoked herring, and when you’re finished you can join the choir and sing along. There’s already eight of us and there’s always room for one more.”
It’s pop and it’s Göteborg and it’s springtime. Here are a couple of songs with Hagaliden and if you’d like to hear som more you can visit Hagaliden’s Soundcloud page or their Myspace page. You can also find them on Facebook.
Det gör ingenting
Hagaliden
