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People who form a band in their early teens often end up realising how naive and stupid they are, laughing at their own foolishness and quit. Then there are people who like to torture themselves, Stolen Deer are one of those kinds.
Stolen Deer's debut album is a result of half a decade of pain. Not the stinging type of pain like from putting your hand on a hot plate,
but the coming and going type of pain that eats your brain from the inside. This is what makes Morning Peasant timeless. It's not
associated with the best-looking rucksacks or coats from the past or present. By avoiding this, Stolen Deer have found a way to save
themselves from their own creative anxiety.
Together with Henrik Wiklund, Magnus Lindberg (Deportees, Cult of Luna etc etc) and with some help of friends and enemies, Stolen Deer have recorded a harmonious well-planned handicraft. Rhythm, piano and persistent discussing of guitars permeates an album led by Anton Fahlgren's voice. On top of that there are uplifting trumpets and grieving trombones making the songs something you never can reach and get a hold of with your bare hands.
Stolen Deer are still lost. Everyone knows that's the most thrilling and scary feeling in the world. So, wherever you go, let them follow.
They'll come with you on that train along the Swedish coastline. Look outside, because Morning Peasant is like the snowshine in your eyes. It's an engaged and eager struggle to get to the top of all the mountains you've ever c...
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As Phoenix the bird La Masa, or should I say La Masa of Sweden as they call themselves now a days since the changing of singing language and a bit of style, has risen again. Here you have the first taste, "Jimmie give up" from their forthcoming self titled album. Under the name La Masa these Gothenburg guys released two albums which included quite a few radio-singles such as "Flyttkartong", "Min Megafon" "Tomhetens dunkla spår" just to name a few. Their new super-cool single "Jimmie give up" is satirical pop directed at the right-wing, xenophobic movement's ugly face.
With its club beat and catchy chorus it pulls down the pants of Swedish right-wing politician Jimmie Åkesson and gives him a good spanking.
With the new single "Jimmie give up", La Masa of Sweden exposes the obvious that only the little child in H.C. Andersen's fairy tale dared to see - he is naked. Political pop at its best!
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A Saga is no more than just one persons songs, namely Anna Lindén. She's a Stockholm girl who, some five years ago, previously has released a two track single on West Side, the Jari Haapalainen produced "Like Water". A single that indeed had some radio spins both here and there. On that particular single, as well as on the new one, play Nicolai Dunger's partisan Thomas Tjärnkvist nearly all the instruments, except the beautiful trumpet which is performed by Joel Eriksson. As noticed, now is A Saga back again with this lovely smooth sacral song "Empty Words Empty Bottles". And if we should dare to compare her with some other artists the once that appear on my mind are artists like Mazzy Star and Cocteau Twins.
At last, besides taken care of nearly all instruments Thomas Tjärnkvist, who has released the album "Ben Fetur" as well as being Nicolai Dunger's guitarist for many many years, has produced this new single and if everything's goes well we'll here more from these two in a near future.
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With sickness he watched the rightwing's success in the Swedish election, 2010. This marked the broken state not only Sweden, but Europe suddenly was in. In the streets of Malmoe, The Culture In Memoriam's beloved Malmoe as well as his residence, immigrants were shot to death unprovoced and all good forces in the society mobilised themselves against this violence.
This was the inspiration for the new single "Jimmie" by The Culture In Memoriam (TCIM). A song for change, a dance in rage, a strike for the right thing to do!
And as TCIM say; It's time for pop music to take a stand, resistance never sounded this catchy!
And for all of you who don't know. This spring TCIM will spread their message of a more humanity world as the will be touring Germany with start the 17th of May in Berlin and end up some sixteens days later, the first of June in Leipzig.
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Pretties For You is a new acquaintance from us (although they have already released a single by them selfs) and their superb "When the Lights Went Out" is really something extra ordinary. This is by no doubt a tremendous magnificent song which is built up around their composer's, Martina Forsgren, powerful and super cool voice.
If you listen very carefully you can hear echoes from stars from the past like Fleetwood Mac, Patti Smith or Blondie as well as from newer pioneer acts like Arcade Fire and the National's.
So indeed this quintet from Gothenburg is something worth keep an eye, or an ear, on since we at West Side Fabrication are damn proud to give you their "When the Lights Went Out".
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This was originally Oh My!’s physical debut, a three track vinyl single. But all of you, who already are familiar with Oh My!, will notice that two of these three songs have previously been released as digital tracks. Talking about the two indie-radio favorites “I Know You” and “Time Will Tell”. The later one of these two did for instance extremely well on Swedish National radio P3, were it was play-listed for at least four months. “Time Will Tell” worked of course great on other stations and in other media as well. And if that’s not all, the band, indeed, has been named as one of the brightest up-coming stars on the Swedish indie scene by more than one paper. But it won’t stop there, since they (the band together with their producer Ronald Bood) just recently have chosen which songs will be recorded for their debut-album, an album that will be released after this summer. The recording it self will start in just a couple of days, so if everything goes well we’ll give you a new song this spring. Before that you’ll have to keep it up with this fantastic single as well as their super-song, on the radio spinning, “Fifteen Minutes”.
