Skadade ljud is a new acquaintance. They started the band last summer, but it really took off this april as they released their first creations out into the open, with a three-track EP.

It’s pop/rock in Swedish, where they paint grand, slightly mellow pictures. And all is told by Daniel Månstråles vocals which gives it all that little extra touch of drama.

Here are two songs to listen to:

Ingen förstår oss ändå
Citodon

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Erik Zettervall doesn’t hold back, it’s Swedish pop with full speed ahead and passion. A good drive, horns, strings that envelopes the music in drama and at the same time it’s melodic pop in Swedish that also feels very Swedish. A little like a Jakob Hellman with adrenaline injections.

The album “Kärlek på liv och död” has been recorded and are to be released during 2010. Here are two tracks from the record:

Kärlek på liv och död
Undergång

You can find Erik on Myspace where you can listen some more.

And finally The Deer Tracks produced a follow-up to the album debut “Aurora”. They did this with the EP:n “Eggegrund” which was released during spring, although only in 1000 hand numbered records.

Eggegrund is a small island outside Gävle, Sweden, which was the place where they recorded the four tracks on the EP, inside a lighthouse on the island. You will recognize The Deer Tracks on the EP, but at the same time they enter new paths, where each track has it’s own direction and character.
Here below you can listen to two of the tracks, where one of them, the tale of the polarbear cat, “Isbjörnskatten,” is the first song they sing in Swedish.

Bless the Waves
Isbjörnskatten

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Today I’ll present a new colleague here on Meadowmusic, Thomas Nävsjö. First up for him is Steget:

My first post here concerns Steget, the duo from Gothenburg, who on their latest album “Förändrar Allting” create beautiful, stylistically pure piano pop filled with emotions. The voice  of Mathilda Sjöström is wonderfully accompanied by the piano of Nils Dahl and with the ballad “Jag Skulle Dö För Dig” they have come up with a duet that touches me in a way no other has since Ratata/Frida or Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush back in the eighties.

You’ll find Steget on Myspace and the entire album is available on Spotify. Here’s “Baby Baby Baby” from the album:

Baby Baby Baby

I’ve been praising Youth and Student Travel before, and their two earlier EP:s. Now they have released a new one, with the short name “YAST 3” and I just keep enjoying this band. Partly they change clothes in this EP, as every EP has it’s own sound. This one a little more rough, denser and more grand, but still a beautiful indie. A new thing is also that two of the songs are in Swedish. Here are two tracks:

Shine
Rätta till

You can read more and listen to YAST on their blog. On Spotify you can listen to the entire EP and on their Bandcamp page you can also listen to earlier releases.

Here’s a summer track with YAST – “Summertime”: