Emerald Park are preparing the release of the new album “Go! Go! Go!”, which is going to be released on the 23rd of June. The first taste for us is the song “Liberteens”, a song that the band wrote after they had listened to Imogen Heap and thought about how they could incorporate Autotune in their music. The result came out as a duet where an autotuned Martina Johansson is singing a cool, bright and airy electropop verse, after which Tobias Borelius comes rumbling in with rough indie pop and electric guitars where they seem to bend the tones a bit more to mark the contrasts. Love it.

Emerald Park on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp

I wrote about Hanna Järver and her delicate, close and ambient pop a couple of years ago when she released the EP “Smutsen“. In the beginning of this year she released the beautiful, melancholic single “Ingenting skrivet”, which also seems to be a forerunner to a new album.

Hanna Järver on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

The duo Magneta is a two-person offshoot from the band Killerball, which I’ve written about before. A while ago they released the first song, “Vafan”, a fun song musically, which they describe as a messy electronica in crude Swedish, but with a rather tragic family story as the theme. They write that they get their inspiration from bands like Bob Hund, Teddybears and Devo among others, and promise new songs within short.

Magneta on Facebook –  on Soundcloud

Last Saturday Låtsaspoeten, alias Jon Rinneby, released the debut album “På riktigt”. If you have followed the blog you have met him in several disguises before, first of all as a singer and songwriter in Turn Off Your Television, and in the Autumn I made an interview with him about this new project. As Låtsaspoeten he has started writing lyrics in Swedish for the first time, and also tried to find his way back to a simpler and more direct way of creating music. He decided early on to work according to a principle where he gave himself one day to write and record a song and another day to mix and finalize the production.

The thirteen songs on the album form quite a varied journey that balances between simple fun and seriousness, and between the close, personal and his critical eyes on society. The Swedish folk song tradition and the progressive movement from the seventies form a base in many tracks, but he doesn’t stop there and often moves the songs on to indie pop and Americana of today, and I’m sure that Turn Off Your Television-fans will feel at home once in a while. Not least because of all the sticky melodies Jon has a notorious habit of creating. Listen to three of the tracks here below:

Låtsaspoeten on Facebook – on Spotify

Here is the debut single from the duo/collective Last Night On Earth, “Leaving Cities”, with beautifully grand synth pop.

Last Night Earth on Facebook – on Spotify