I wrote about Eddie Wheeler in 2008 here on the blog, and presented some of his music. There were plans of releasing an album in 2009, but what happened instead was that Eddie started a collaboration with musician Henrik Nordahl, aka Hank Wheeler, and the band Wheeler was formed.

Last week they released the debut album “Wheeler”. And it’s an impressive album. They’ve continued to build upon Eddies style with an acoustic, mellow, dark rock, but yet it’s something completely different from what I’ve heard before. Eddie sings his personal lyrics in Swedish and he also sings better than ever before. Or maybe it’s because of the language and it can be felt. Even if you don’t understand Swedish I think you can appreciate it and understand what it’s about.

The sound is largely built upon acoustic guitars and is smoldering beautiful and well produced. It’s partly dark and creates en emotion that acompanies what’s said between the lines, even if we can feel a glimpse of light here and there.

Here below you can help yourself to the first two tracks from the album. Listen more on Wheeler’s site or on Spotify. Wheeler’s also on Facebook.

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It’s hard to imagine more retro-sixties’-psychadelia vibes than The Orange Revival‘s album “Lord I’m Gonna Shake It”. From the starting sitar-Flower Power-instrumental they get into sixties’-sounding psychadelia rock in various ways, almost like it’s taken from one of the Nuggets-albums, but I also get the feeling that Rolling Stones has been the inspiration in some track and Velvet Underground in others, especially in “She Couldn’t Imagine”.

You can enjoy the entire album on Bandcamp and you can follow the band on Facebook.

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Well Well

Luckily we didn’t have to wait too long for the new music from Skånske Arne & Jonny Spöge, whom I wrote about a little while ago. Recently they released their debut EP “-Kommande Fantastiska…” (“The upcoming fantastic…”)

They continue to strike, with surgical precision, at remarkable situations in our society, and hacked Hotmail accounts as well as TV cooking shows are being targeted. The EP ends, though, with the autobiographic “Pappas Lapp” (“Daddy’s note”), but even that song contains a certain amount om complaining.

Here below you can listen to “Äta på kåppra” (“Eating at kåppra”), a nostalgic complaint from the times where you could eat at Konsum’s restaurant, and you were sitting there with a queue number in hand but couldn’t really hear from the speakers which numbers they announced. Something many of us have experienced.

They continue on the musical route they started with “Gula lådan”, with their retro rock from Skåne. Listen more on Spotify or on their site.

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Johnny & I is a band from Göteborg/Vara, who recently released the EP “While You Stand Still”. They create indie rock that gets that extra emotional tension with a singer that really makes their songs stand out.

Listen more on their Facebook page.

Like Their Medicine

Today it’s about Vacancy Labour, a band hailing from Linköping, which I think can give rise to quite different associations when you listen to their music. I’m thinking of dance-friendly rock from the end of the eighties/the early nineties and also a little about Alan Parsons Project from the early eighties.

You can find three songs to listen to on Reverbnation. Follow the band on their blog (in Swedish) or on their Facebook page.

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