Gustav Nilsson – “Makeup On, Letdowns Off”
Some weeks ago I presented Gustav Nilsson and his single “Down, Down, Down”. Now the EP, where the song belongs, is ready, “Makeup On, Letdowns Off”.
Accompanied by another 5 songs, my impression of the sixties I got from “Down, Down, Down” is turned into a sensation of happy seventies’ rock, full of of sing-a-long melodies and nice guitar figures. And with Gustav’s sand paperish voice the sound gets just the right harshness to make it feel alive and genuine.
Gustav himself had a somewhat different description:
…on this album I pictured it to sound like if Julian Casablancas (anno 2002) and Courtney Love (anno 1998) really meet in a bath room and are threatened to be shot by Phil Spector if they don’t quickly write some songs together.
Read and listen more on Gustav’s site. The EP is also available on Spotify and on Wimp.
Shotgun Crackers is back with new music. They released their debut album in Spring and now they follow this with the three-track EP, “Lockdown PT. 1”. It seems like they’re planning a series of EP:s in the time to come, instead of heading directly for a new full length album.
The Percivals , hailing from Göteborg, released a couple of weeks ago their second album “The Percivals”. I haven’t listened to them before, so I can’t compare with their first album. But here I find that they firmly takes us back to the sixties’ british rock scene when The Kinks and The Who was at their heights, and that they also make some escapades across the Atlantic and give hints of some inspiration from early country rock like in “Man With the View” here below.
It feels quite different to write this post, to say the least. And that’s because Bus Stop Dreams is my own band. Well, not only my band, but also my colleague Lasse Thomasson’s and several other members’. My first thoughts was to hand this over to someone else to write about, or to not write at all, but then I thought that this blog is very much about me presenting music I like, so why not write it myself?
