If you’re longing for classic rock, blues rock and hard rock from the first half of the seventies you should certainly check out Gin Lady’s second album effort “Mother’s Ruin”. Well it’s ambitiously enough even a double album, full of groovy rock with vibes from Faces, Free, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Rolling Stones and others around those domains. And even if I miss that song which gets stuck in my head, I’m impressed with the standard of the album, where the variation and the overall song quality manage to keep my interest up through all songs. A big plus also for crafting such a retrosounding dynamic album. Here are a couple of songs:

Gin Lady on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara

The band Chirping, which I wrote about in Spring, is releasing a new single today, “The Abyss”. Again we find them in this lightly melancholic, warm grand rock area with colleagues like for example The National. And they certainly know their way around here, this time with a softer song, a song they build up with a fine touch to the crescendo without taking it too far into the bombastic. It’s a song that somehow sticks and settles as a warm, comforting blanket over the ambience inside, as I look out into the growing Autumn darkness.

Chirpings site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Soundcloud

Accustomed readers of this blog may be a little surprised  how I start this week, i.e. with some heavy thrash metal from Crowdburn, a band hailing from Umeå. Most often I’ve kept away from these domains of rock, but after having exposed myself to this metal energy during The Roskilde Festival this summer, it got to me, and my music menu is now even wider.

Crowdburn’s debut album “Ignition” is an excellent opportunity to express this new passion. It’s a splendidly raw rock album, but which also offers just the right dose of sweetness in the form of melodic smooth choruses. Add to that a fine variation and genre mixes and you’ll have an album that will keep you interested through all ten songs. Here’s a couple of songs from this raw beauty.

Crowdburn’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp – on Rara – on Soundcloud

MANKKU  [mancko] has been laying low when it comes to recordings since his “dogma”-sessions last year and the album “Festen har bara börjat” the year before that. He writes that he’s gathered quite a collection of new songs, which he hopes to start to record this winter. He has had the time, though, to translate and record his own interpretation of The Gun Club’s song “Mother of Earth”; a song he says that has been with him ever since it was released in the beginning of the eighties. And as you can hear below, he’s made something completely of his own with the song, like a kind of bluesy Americana with a backbeat, and an ominous pumping bass synth and bells that’s counting the time (that’s left). An interesting hint (I hope) of what his upcoming recordings will be like.

MANKKU [mancko]’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp

With three strong singles in their backpack from the last year, Honeymilk entered the studio this summer to record their first album, on their own. “Lean On Me” is the name of the album and is going to be released at the end of this month. To spice things up before the release they uploaded this track, “Light Entertainment”, a few days ago; a track with a suprisingly dirty sound, where they show that they’re not stuck in any song formula. If they continue like this I believe we can look forward to a fantastic debut album.

Honeymilk’s site – on Facebook – on Spotify – on Wimp