Mixtapes & Cellmates has recently released their new album “Rox”. They offer a nice warm indie pop, with a little rough edges and dense sound which is easy to listen to.
You can listen more on their Myspace page, and if you have Spotify you can listen to the entire album there.
Here’s the song “Soon” from “Rox”, both as a video and as an mp3 track:
Soon:
Sweet Serenades released earlier this year a very strong debut album, “Balcony Cigarettes”. It contains a bunch of contagious songs with high humming factor. It’s playful, romantic, melodic, dramatic in a modern indie pop which let their roots shine through.
Coming from Timrå, Martin Nordvall and Mathias Näslund formed Sweet Serenades in 2002. Among the numerous gigs since the start, they have frequently performed in Swedish prisons. They have tested their songs on the internees and, as they say, thrown away songs that haven’t provoked any dance, cries, tears or riots.
Listen to the album “Balcony Cigarettes” on Sweet Serenade’s Myspace page and read more about them on their site.
Mona Lee:
On My Way
Today’s band is the interesting Örebro band Yes I Am. This autumn they released the EP “Nightmares”, from which you can listen to a track here below.
I can sense the Coldplay inspiration but also some indie vibes. Especially I like the singer Christoffer’s voice that in a nice way blend with the music.
You can listen more on Yes I Am’s Myspace page.
Luke Jackson traveled to Sweden, with a heap of pop songs in his luggage, to collaborate with Magnus Börjesson (remember Beagle?) and ex Brainpool members Christoffer Lundquist and Jens Jansson. It all resulted in the album “And Then Some…”, a real pop-feelgood-album.
It almost feels like this is Luke Jackson’s own condensed version of classic guitar based pop history. Then it always starts somehow in George Martin’s studio, but lands in the fantastic pop-seventies. There’s gorgeous string arrangements, beautiful melodies and and a songwriting full of fantasy, leaving some space for being unpredictable. But I can also hear the traces from his coworkers’ earlier pop history from the nineties.
You can find Luke Jackson on his site and you can listen to the entire album on his Bandcamp page.
Goodbye London:
Trouble
Half a World Away
“Citizen K was born on August 4, 1966. The bastard son of a beautiful go-go-dancer, and a famous rock’n’roll star.”
That’s how the story about Citizen K starts, and without reading any further I would have guessed that the father was someone from Crosby, Stills & Nash or from Pink Floyd or maybe George Harrison himself. That would have been my guess after listening to the 16-track album “Meet Citizen K”. 16 tracks full of excellent pop songwriting with folk influences.
This feels like a really solid album, which grows each time I listen to it, and it wasn’t easy to pick two favourite tracks to present in this post. I dillied back and forth until I stayed with the two songs you can listen to here below.
Listen to more songs and read the story about Citizen K on Citizen K’s Myspace page.
She Says
Sometime In September
Meadow Music in swedish
Designed by
