Many artists trim and polish their sound to the second album with more advanced productions. Not Dalaplan, though, on their follow-up album “Plikt och elände”. They have roughed it up a bit instead and have achieved something that is now closer to a spontaneous live energy in the eleven songs. The songs and the album are overall more dynamic also which makes the album feel more like a whole than the debut. It’s still about a wonderful energetic garage rock, but darker, both in the harmonies and in the lyrics, which ultimately feels rather liberating. It’s rock’n’roll, right? Also, Dalaplan wouldn’t be Dalaplan without the melodies, the singalong phrases and the short choruses which stick in your head immediately. And sure, they are indeed there, listen for yourself:
The three members from the band Same Old Story have made a kind of reboot and resurfaced as the new band Natalie Roots. The foundation is still American punk rock, but it feels like they’ve had an energy injection and that they are ready to go carve out their very own path now, which can be heard in the furious starting track “Kommer vi behöva leva på det här” on their debut EP “Kardia One”. Four songs in English follow, containing the best and most inspired stuff I’ve heard so far from the trio.
Here’s the debut single from The Perfect Mess, hailing from Skövde, a band that consists of Niklas Bohm and Mikko Viitala. The song “There Is Still Time”, a handsome pop track which they build up to arena proportions, is also the first taste of their upcoming debut EP.
New single from the band Georgia Barbershop, “Blast Oyster”. The last time we met them they appeared like the punk cousins to the bands from “Nuggets From the Psychadelic Era”, who someone had secretly recorded while they were rehearsing in a shed. Now they have moved from the shed to a furnished garage and installed more modern recording equipment. But it’s still rock’n’roll and energy, and they sound a bit like an early New Wave-band with some britpop attitude. A new album is coming up within short.
Here’s the second single from Rideau, “Ecstasy”, a song where they pick up the speed and seem to have pushed all the sweaty rock energy they’ve got into the track. It’s frenetic rock with a stroke of metal and hardcore but they have their own path just outside these genres. They even surprise with a brilliant saxophone solo! in the middle of the song. Hopfully we get to hear an album from the band soon.
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