They took their time to deliver their debut album. After having released some excellent singles during a couple of years, Anyone for tennis finally released the record “Welcome Midlife Christ” in the end of Summer. They serve us 14 songs, which may seem a lot for an album, but it works great here for the band. It gives them space both to continue to excel with their energic, american-sounding rock and to explore some other areas, like for example stunning pop ballads, blues or acoustic ambience. If I also add an exquisite sense of melodies and of course also Martin Norström’s strong vocals we have an album that certainly meets the high expectations I had before and even more. I can’t refrain from playing “Everything Is Falling Down” again, so here are four tracks from the album:
Simple Broken Boy is a trio with the singer Magnus Dahlberg at the front. Magnus, who earlier sang in the band Sons of Sam, writes that Simple Broken Boys was born out of a depression and a subsequent 2 years long period of writer’s block. The debut single was released in Spring and shows a finetuned pop backed by string arrangements and acoustic guitars. It seems that they are working on an album, but I don’t know anything yet about the schedule for this. Here’s one of the two songs from the single, “No Need to Run”:
On his upcoming EP “Borders & Land” Tkacuk wages war agains the dark powers of prejudice and hate that are spreading all over Europe now. The title track here below is the first shot and turns out to be a bright, hopeful song about wiping away the illusions of nationalism. It’s easy to start singing along to this one.
Le Maine doesn’t hold back on anything in the song “Daughter of a King”. It’s a classic rock ballad with extra everything which explodes in a chorus of filmepic proportions. To support their dramatic music the band has created dark stories which their upcoming debut-EP “Arte” will tell us more about. The song has a beautiful melody which is unique enough, and catchy, but still I miss one thing in the song to make it reach all the way to give those enjoyable shivers in the middle of the most dramatic parts. It’s the lead vocals where they have chosen to embed it a bit too much in vocal harmonies and dubs, right there in the parts when you need it to be the strongest. It’s still a great track, though, no doubt about it, and it will be interesting to hear the EP where they are heading with this.
Anna-Lena Winter has released four albums before with the band Winter. Now she’s has collaborated with Håkan Svensson and Håkan Nyberg from Nationalteatern to create her first solo album “Raw”. And it really feels raw, with a sound that is to some extent inspired by Black Keys, but where we’ve also heard these kicked-speaker-membrane-distortion guitars from Pär Edwardsson before, who also happens to be one of the producers on this album, together with Håkan Svensson. It’s a quite varying and dynamic album with songs like these two catchy melodic tracks here below, to the heavy, glamrock-sounding “Everybody Dance” to the beautiful, minimalistic “Tell Me It’s a Lie” and a lot more to discover on this album that grows with each listen.
Finally a song with the duo Akaba, a duo consisting of Pineforest Crunch singer Åsa Carild and Tobias Ljungkvist from Reminder and Two Times the Trauma. They’re releasing the debut album on the 30:th of October, “The Rust Within”, and the first single from the album, “94”, is out now:
Today Magnus Bergman is releasing the single “Piano & Trummor”, which is taken from the new album “Är du avprogrammerad?”, to be released on October 29th. It’s a much less restrained Magnus Bergman in this song than before, with a funky pop that erupts in a quite catchy and grand-sounding pop chorus.
Here’s a new single from the duo Eternal Death, Elin Berlin and Johan Angergård. It’s called “Fade” and is a melodically beautiful electropop song with some vibes from the eighties.
The producer duo KLoN!, which I wrote about in Spring, have released the song “Den dagen den sorgen”. This time Johanna Grane, hailing from Malmö, has added the vocals.
Yesterday Sveket released the second single from their upcoming album. “Den allvarsamma leken” is a song that follows in the same tracks the song “Hollywoodslut” laid out in Spring with a mix of electro and retroschlager.
And finally the bluegrass band G2 who traveled to the US, toured there and also recorded a new album in Nashville with the help of the producer Erick Jaskowiak. Here’s the first taste of the album, “We Were Kings”:
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