Gamla Pengar comes from Göteborg and delivers an uncompromising punk rock, which reminds me of classic Swedish punk from the eighties, on the latest three-track EP “Vackra land som ingenting gav”. With anger and garage-raw, melodic punk they cut greed and consumption along the ankles. And with a great rock swing too. Here below is the starting track “Här är ditt liv”.
Gamla Pengar on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Bandcamp
Söder has played earlier with bands like Inferno, Åka Bil, Tuk Tuk Rally among others. Now he’s in the middle of his solo debut with a single that was recently released, “Vad ska du bli?”, and an album, “Exorcism”, scheduled for launch later this Autumn.
The single “Vad ska du bli?” has it’s name from the first track, which is a cover of Ebba Grön’s song. He performs a new, more quiet and excellent version of the song, which he says is one of his favourite songs throughout the years.
Since I normally avoid publishing covers here in the blog, I chose to publish the second one instead, “En sorgsen sång som gör mig glad” (“A sad song that makes me happy”); a song that I think is just as interesting. It’s an exquisite combination with Söder’s calm voice, the Swedish sadness and a “sorry-that-I-kicked-in-the-speaker-membrane”-guitar, where the guitar rips the sweet melancholy in the song to pieces. And it makes me happy.
Söder on Facebook – on Spotify
When two front figures, from two great bands I’ve presented before, decide to form a new band together, I get curious of course. It’s Joel Segerstedt from The Open Up and Bleeds and Makkan Johansson from Saigon Sickness, who have started the band Hjärtattack (“Heart attack”) and have released a first single before the album debut later this year.
With Hjärtattack they return to their roots in punk rock, where they once started. The band name Hjärtattack was also the name om the first punk band Joel started, 13 years old. It’s clenched fists, bitterness and anger over injustice, hard lyrics and straight punk riffs. As a first taste they released the song “Överklassafari” (“Upper Class Safari”), where the title (I assume) is taken from campaigns at the start of this year, where bus trips in Stockholm and Göteborg out to expensive residential areas was organised, as some kind of sightseeing among the upper class houses there.
Listen more to Hjärtattack on Bandcamp and follow them on Facebook.
A couple of months ago the punk band Malte X sadly announced that they are breaking up. Since the start in 1999 they have experienced two albums, a couple of label deals, a number of singles and a lot of live shows. They finish in a neat way by releasing a last single, and you can hear one of the two tracks here below. They also treat every who wants the “Malte X – MP3-box” for free. The box contains all their songs and also a collection from the band Akut Slut, “Gröna pärlor 91-94”. If you want this box you can send a mail to them with the subject “Malte X – Mp3 Box”.
Listen more to Malte X on Spotify, Wimp and other services.
The trio Uppgång & Fall (“Rise and Fall”) have taken their band name from the song with the same name by Ebba Grön, which you may have guessed. The punk rock they play has less in common with exactly that Ebba album, and more in common with the early Ebba Grön and the original Swedish garage punk.
To me they are a little like punk rock in a nutshell: Just pick up the instruments and go, we’re going to change this bloody world, be just who you wanna be and noone can miss the message when the bass player and singer Ella’s voice cracks in frustration and anger over the establishment.
In the beginning of the year they released their first EP which you can listen to on their Bandcamp page, and they plan to record an album in Summer. You can also find them on Facebook.
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