Before the summer Pica Pica released the wonderful single “Lift Me Up“. Now they have launched the follow-up “Where Did The Summer Go”, a duet where Jonas Jonsson (aka Bedroom Eyes) joins Ida Segersten on vocals. This time they have added some more energy in a track that, after a mood-setting start, explodes in shimmering synth arpeggios and a beat that almost pushes us out onto the disco floor. Here’s both a dose of drama and a nice, melancholic ambience containing a title phrase that lingers in the air after the song has finished.
Lars Henrik Andersson recently released the two-track single “Dansa tills jag stupar”. The title song is an intense pop track which runs in an unusual septuple meter, a beat that turns out surprisingly sticky just as the catchy chorus. Henrik has had a long career in music and is most known for his membership in the bands Komeda and Ray Wonder, and he has also released music under the name The Clown.
A couple of weeks ago Vårum released the debut single “Scream”, a piece of cool, laidback disco-inviting electropop which wet the appetite for more. Today he’s releasing the debut EP “Disco Damaged” with another 4 tracks to enjoy. Behind Vårum we find Bjørn Thomassen, born and raised on Lofoten in Norway, but nowadays living in London. The inspiration comes from the cold desolated nights in the big city, he writes, but you can just as well imagine sparkling ice flakes and a vast, mighty sea when you hear the music. He’s not only aiming for the dancefloor here, he wants us to take a pause and just listen as well on a varying and quite dynamic album. I can sense some nostalgic vibes from older synthpop and some hints of Alan Parsons Project also, but there’s no doubt that the songs belong on the electronica scene of today and should be fit to fill some floors in London clubs in the time to come.
The trio Rooni, with the songwriter Gustav Nilsson at the front, have just released their new EP “YODO”. The title is an acronym for “You Only Die Once”, paraphrasing the popular expression YOLO. Gustav writes that he became a first time father a year ago, an experience that made him start thinking about his own mortality, which is now reflected in these songs. It is hardly a gloomy collection of songs, though, rather the opposite. It feels life-affirming and the EP is full of uplifting, playful indiepop. The songs have a straight-on approach with simple, catchy choruses, stirring bass melodies and a nice unpolished sound which makes it feel like they’ve just been pulled out, smoking hot, from the power pop oven. Listen to a couple of tracks from the EP:
Filip Lundgren is preparing for his upcoming album release with this new single, “Allting är historia”. The song feels like an obvious sing-along favourite on his future gigs and reminds me quite a bit of Broder Daniel in the chorus. With the song he wants to remind us to really se what’s happening around us, here and now, and urges us to act now to prevent history from repeating itself with racism and fascism holding us in its cold grip.
The debut album “Där Inget Annat Finns” will be launched on the 16th of October.
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