I wrote about Joel Segerstedt’s and Markus Johansson’s punk band Hjärtattack half a year ago when they released the single “Överklassafari”. In the end of November they also released the album they promised us, “Tillbaka till framtiden” (“Back to the future”). As the name implies and as I wrote last time, this is a trip back to the eighties and their roots in punk rock back then. And I think that they sound even better now, especially if you like melodic punk. Try for yourself in a couple of songs here below.
I will stay in Malmö with today’s second post. It’s the band Bruce, who recently released their debut ep “Folk kämpar” (“People struggle”), an album which is recorded live from what I understand, and which tastes warm garage rock and punk shot straight from the heart. They say themselves that they’ve been inspired by BRMC, Captain Beefheart and Pascal and also by artists like Tom Waits and Bryan Ferry.
Here’s an interesting new trio from Malmö, No Favours, that released the single “Hands & Hearts” a couple of weeks ago. It’s also one of the songs from the debut album, which will be released now in December. Nicely rough, garage-punkish with vibes of Sonic Youth-rock and shoegaze. There are also a couple of earlier songs to listen to on their Bandcamp page.
I have just finished reading Dante’s “Inferno” and maybe some parts of this journey through hell could have had Rättens Krater’s EP “Stora stöten” (“The big hit”) as a soundtrack. They have also that in common that they mix antique mythological references with visions of hell and a night dark view of society. It’s a cool chaotic garage-sounding lo-fi-punk with lyrics that is packed with images, which to me seems quite different, at least if I compare with the punk I’m used to hear. Somewhere I feel some references to punk from the early eighties to which they add their own approaches like when they for example make the chorus swing in the song below “Der Totenfluss Styx”.
It took the band Le Muhr five years to launch a follow-up to the debut album from 2007, “Generation destruktiv”. The EP “Flickorna på klubben” with it’s six tracks was released in the beginning of this year and feels like a kajal painted soundtrack to the big city’s decadent night life, viewed with cynical and ironic eyes. There’s a lot of the eighties in their synth-punk-new wave and the contents would probably have worked just as good back then as it works today.
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