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The new album by the legendary The Bear Quartet, entitled “Monty Python”, was initiated straight after the recordings of the former “comeback” album “89”. The band even played a couple of tracks from it on their follow up tour to the album. “89” was the beginning of new creative phase. It all started with a label switch from their original label A West Side Fabrication to Malmö based Adrian Recordings. And in the rush just seems to keep going on.
About the new album, the same can be said as of the previous. On the one hand it has all the typical ingredients from the bands career up until now. On the other, it sounds like nothing they’ve ever recorded before.
This is the first single from the album. It is called “Fist Or Hand”.
The track is very well reflected in the bonus track that comes with it on the single. Here we get a sweet soft reggae version from Jamaican artist Desmond Foster. Desmond that was brought up in England, now live in Stockholm Sweden and has released one solo album. He is also a well sought-after studio musician that has played with artists like Aswad, Boy George and David Byrne. On vocals we find Gordon Cyrys.
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www.myspace.com/desmondfoster
Fist Or Hand
W: Mattias Alkberg M: Mattias Alkberg & Jari Haapalainen
My flame is tamed and now it’s yours, if you follow the beat. Yes, there have been palms attempting before but they couldn’t stand the heat. What’s the matter nervous lover? Are you a chicken or a man...
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It’s been three years since Familjen aka Johan T. Karlsson stormed charts, venues and festivals with especially the title track off his debut album ‘Det snurrar i min skalle’. When the follow up was released earlier this year, it was clear that the party is still going.
While much has happened since the "Det snurrar i min skalle” epidemic spread, the groove, drive and the sudden impulses are just as knock-out this time. Take the maxed out Motown drums and distorted bass on the first single "När planeterna stannat". It screams attention and once again drags us out on the dance floor. The track parked itself high on charts and established Familjen as one of the great Swedish artists. This has been even clearer when watching all the ten thousands dancers that show up on all the many festival shows during the summer. The summer of 2010 has been nothing but a big party for followers of Swedish melodic vocal house.
Second chapter starts with the release of the next single “Det var jag”. A bittersweet vocal melody, a post punk bass line (played by Kent’s Martin Sköld) and an unforgettable slightly Asian tune together with Johan’s almost mythological vocals will, once it has drilled its way in to your head, be stuck there for the rest of the year. We promise.
All is brought to you together with an extraordinary golden video and a string of fingerpicked remixes. The party will continue far beyond every border; abroad and within.
In Sweden Familjen is released by the l...
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Recorded last winter in a freezing cold Stockholm, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ comes just over a year after their acclaimed debut, ‘Unknown Colors’, but at a mere 37 minutes is much more focused and concise. As the crows that have replaced the finches on the band’s logo seem to indicate, it’s also a much darker and heavier album. This is perhaps a result of touring extensively with A Place To Bury Strangers (the two bands got on so famously that Strangers mainman Oliver Ackermann is named as the ‘patron saint’ of the album).
Regardless of how it happened, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is something of a minor-key masterpiece. It opens with the mournful ‘Sorrow, Sorrow’, which sees Anna joined by her sister Annika for some beautiful harmonies like some kind of Swedish Everly Sisters. This gives way to ‘Such A Waste’, which takes the overt J Mascis references of their debut and shifts them into overdrive. ‘Monster & The Beast’, is slow and menacing and about as scary as the cover art, which looks like it’s straight out of a Grimm’s fairy tale. It’s not all heaviness and misery though – ‘Beads’ is a simple, acoustic, lovelorn ballad, ‘Touch’ is pure, Primitive(s) indie-pop with about three different choruses.
Sad Day For Puppets were formed in 2006 in the Stockholm satellite town of Blackeberg, the setting for the creepy vampire book/film ‘Let The Right One In’. Martin Källholm, the band’s resident songwriting genius, claims to be inspired by Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Kiss and Aerosmith and is strangely obsessed with Bette Midler.Recorded last winter in a freezing cold Stockholm, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ comes just over a year after their acclaimed debut, ‘Unknown Colors’, but at a mere 37 minutes is much more focused and concise. As the crows that have replaced the finches on the band’s logo seem to indicate, it’s also a much darker and heavier album. This is perhaps a result of touring extensively with A Place To Bury Strangers (the two bands got on so famously that Strangers mainman Oliver Ackermann is named as the ‘patron saint’ of the album).
Regardless of how it happened, ‘Pale Silver & Shiny Gold’ is something of a minor-key masterpiece. It opens with the mournful ‘Sorrow, Sorrow’, which sees Anna joined by her sister Annika for some beautiful harmonies like some kind of Swedish Everly Sisters. This gives way to ‘Such A Waste’, which takes the overt J Mascis references of their debut and shifts them into overdrive. ‘Monster & The Beast’, is slow and menacing and about as scary as the cover art, which looks like it’s straight out of a Grimm’s fairy tale. It’s not all heaviness and misery though – ‘Beads’ is a simple, acoustic, lovelorn ballad, ‘Touch’ is pure, Primitive(s) indie-pop with about three different choruses.
Sad Day For Puppets were formed in 2006 in the Stockholm satellite town of Blackeberg, the setting for the creepy vampire book/film ‘Let The Right One In’. Martin Källholm, the band’s resident songwriting genius, claims to be inspired by Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, Kiss an...
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The fifth studio album by Penniless in the present composition brings you
ten songs located in a city. In these songs you hear the beauty of sadness
that sometimes gets you when you stop to think about the things you have
seen, done and haven´t done, your life experience in a word. If you look
for emotional music with bursts of aggression and loud guitars, this is
your album! The youngest of the three Alisaari brothers in the band, Ossi,
is becoming what the other members have expected of him since he joined
the band around year 2000. An excellent composer with the charisma to lift
the band to a new level in many ways. To put it short, the best album ever
from these five brothers who ”don’t give a fuck about anything else”.
http://www.myspace.com/pennilessbiz
http://www.penniless.biz/
http://www.westsidefabrication.se/bands/penniless/
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Artist: Den svenska tystnaden
Label: Adrian Recordings
The sky is slightly lighter this time. The tense grip of monotony has loosened, the harmonies are more varied and the band plays freely. The rocktrio setting is intact but the flute and melancholic melodies make the songs sound like oddly arranged folk ballads. The lyrics have left the private sphere for observations in public spaces: stairwells, park benches, nursing homes and buses. A series of snapshot scenes describes the meeting of the still young with the elderly.
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This is the second single from the debut album “0001”. “0011” features Danish pop diva star RebekkaMaria but here she’s more of an urban fairy floating in the background like mist.
The surroundings has always been incorporated in This Is Head’s music and here on this single the outer world pays credit back in form of 5 brilliant remixes, each one with their own perspective on the scene and the original track.
Follow Malmö disco scene partner VED brings in crickets and Swedish radio voices to a groove that sounds as an organic Brixton party.
Kasper Bjørke makes singer Björn in This Is Head put new vocals over a beat that best can be described as minimal-disco. Kasper is one of Denmark’s best and most busy DJs and producers.
Harald Björk is an up and coming star on the Swedish techno scene. This almost IDM-remix plays with the lyrics and creates an interesting voyage that already been appreciated by DJ’s like James Holden.
Pao Pao nourishes the songwriting and both creates beautiful voices and turns the original to the dance floor, with the melody in focus.
Adam Lundberg has also made remixes and tracks under the moniker Karachi. Adam has just started his own label called Geography Records where you will be able to enjoy his innovative skills in the producers’ chair. This remix takes you for an ambient disco ride of 16 minutes of mind blowing adventure.
http://www.myspace.com/thsshd
http://thisishead.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/vedsound
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