The trio We Could Build an Empire released their debut album in the end of last year. I listened at first to the three songs they have available on their Bandcamp page, and the alternative rock, melodic “Ice”, which you’ll find here below, quickly caught my attention. It wasn’t until I listened to the entire album, though, that their music started to really impress me.
Here I found a band that wasn’t just about piling up melodic alternative rock songs, but more about a band that wanted to do their own thing in the borderland between nineties-inspired alternative rock and progressive rock with hints of metal. It’s quite a varied album which manages to continuously surprise me with it’s twists and turns. I found myself get caught up with the riff-grinding “Dogs”, which breaks off after “Ice”, and drawn into the suggestive “The Power” after which the melodic “Fall Free” takes off. A real album and an impressive one.
Last year The Virtues released the album “Beautiful Game”, which I wrote about in January, and now they have already launched the next album, their fourth: “Rerepeater”. Even if there are a couple of softer tracks in the collection, the band has certainly put on a tougher and straighter rock costume this time.
Rehearsal room rock the call it. There are loads of simple but efficient rock riffs on the album, which breathes retro as well as indie rock and lots of attitude. The starting track “No Show”, which is available here below, sets the atmosphere right from the beginning on this even and enjoyable album.
Selsius, hailing from Göteborg, present themselves as an arena rock band with influences from post rock as well as pop. In May they released the single “Now Here . Nowhere” with two songs, which was a first taste of the upcoming EP with the same name. The EP was supposed to be released on May 30th, but obviously there is a delay of some kind.
The title track is a song with a beautiful build-up with vibes of Sigur Rós, that ends with a powerful instrumental crescendo, while the second track “I Walk With You” comes with arena rock in the direction of U2. A grand sound and made for the arenas.
From before they have released the album “Selsius” (2010), which is available on Spotify and you can download “I Walk With You” on their Soundcloud page. Follow the band on Facebook.
A year after the debut single “Gula lådan” Skånske Arne & Jonny Spöge now have released their debut album “Mitt i natten” (“In the Middle of the Night). You’ll find 15 songs of rock’n’roll from Skåne on the album. Some of them we’ve heard before and some are new, and apparently they want this to be an all-year album as we can find both Christmas songs and summer songs in the track list. Here below you can listen to a reflection of a summer’s morning and the band’s description of near-life experiences.
Today I’m going to use the word impressive again, this time about the debut album “Circle of Seasons” from the band Pharoes, hailing from Malmö. They serve a grand dynamic alternative rock and say they are influenced by bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Faith No More, Deftones and Soundgarden. I don’t think that they sound exactly like any of these bands, but they do have the genre mix and the dynamic changes in the songs in common.
The band name is a deliberate misspelling of the word Pharaoh’s, which came about when singer and guitarist Ebbe Eriksson was browsing through Urban Dictionary. Someone had added the misspelled “Pharoes curse” which stuck with Ebbe. They got rid of the word curse pretty fast and voila, they had a unique band name.
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