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At last! The legendary Swedish band Two Sheds' full-length albums are available for download!
"Out Of Our Sheds" was originally released in 1991 and received lots of rave reviews, but also contempt; a band from Sweden couldn't possibly sound like that. The bands originality and the dark lyrics, filled with a great deal of black humour, generated strong reactions; being Swedish and deal with such heavy topics was hardly OK at the time. And with a band name taken from a Monty Python sketch, things didn't get any easier. So it was not much of a surprise that a major Swedish magazine critic dismissed the album with a comment stating that a band who makes a cover of "My Little Pony" could not be taken seriously. But the song is an original composition with very serious lyrics and the writer obviously didn’t listen to the album before he reviewed it... Despite the bands controversy, they were mostly praised, e.g:
• "Two Sheds is a furious incitement machine that someone managed to curb just before it's about to run away ... It's impossible to leave the hifi" Mattias Hansson, Nöjesguiden
• "Two Sheds from Malmö released their first full length album, and everything that previously was suggested, bursts into full bloom." Håkan Engström, Sydsvenska Dagbladet
[i]• "Nothing really fits within the framework set up by the major record companies' profit making machinery. That’s precisely why it's so go...
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At last! The legendary Swedish band Two Sheds' full-length albums are available for download!
Two Sheds released "Not Good" their second and final album in 1993, a record which got an even better reception in the press than its predecessor. The album was darker and heavier than "Out of Our Sheds" but yet more dynamic. The controlled chaos is mixed with softer and also acoustic elements, and the melodies are even more self-confident than previously. Even the worst detractors were silenced and the press fully took Two Sheds' odd and uncomfortable rock to their hearts.
• "They are totally unique in the timid Swedish pop scene. Hail them as Kings!" Lars Aldman, Sound Affects
• "What a rock pleasure, I’m amazed!" Björn Gyllix, Helsingborgs Dagblad
• "The Malmö band Two Sheds - the Sparks of the nineties - has released the album of the year" Magdalena Väpnargård, Idag
• "The reason Two Sheds triumph, without being the least innovative, is probably depending on the fact that they’re not for a second glancing at the current musical climate." JJK, Nöjesguiden
• "Malmö's Two Sheds could without any doubt come from across the Atlantic, but that's not case and that's something we probably should be very proud of." Pettersborg, Close Up
[i]• "On 'Not Good' Two Sheds is just as ironic, wacky, intense, affected, tear filled, distinctive, country coloured, humorous, amazed, ...
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Christer Hermodson, from the legendary band S.P.O.C.K, released his debut solo project Biomekkanik last summer attracting considerable attention, particularly in Germany. The album "State of Perfection" was hailed by critics:
• "a perfect blend" (9/10 Orkus)
• "the total listening experience gives a desire to dance" (-/- Sonic Seducer)
• "has more than enough potential to captivate listener, and again and again send him on a journey of discovery" (-/- Zillo)
• "Buy this album as soon as hits stores" (8.5 /10 Reflections of Darkness)
• "a remarkably strong debut album" (8/10 Gothtronic)
...and the list goes on...
And if that wasn't acclaim enough, "'State of Perfection" charted for ten weeks, eight of those in second place, in the German Alternative Charts (DAC)! This resulted in an impressive twelfth place on the DAC Annual Top list for 2009, above artists such as Depeche Mode (# 15), Placebo (# 16) and Marilyn Manson (# 30) !! It might then be no co-incidence that the list was also topped by the compilation "Septic VIII" in which Biomekkanik featured with "Pitch Black Ocean", of which Stefan Herwig of Dependent claimed was "one of the best songs I've heard coming out of this scene in a long time"!
Now, we are proud to finall...
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Let's get one thing straight: this is not a Beatles cover! David Sundqvist does his own thing and this new single is no exception. Right off the highly acclaimed debut album "Metal Heat", we get "Let It Be", not just the original but of course a selection of remixes as well. Notably: a cool tech house version by Håkan Lidbo, recent winner of Beatport's huge Depeche Mode remix contest!
The album "Metal Heart" was released this summer and has been hugely well received with 5 weeks at Top10 on the important German Alternative Charts (DAC), ahead of The Arctic Monkeys, among many. The album has also received some great reviews:
GOTHIC [DE] (9/10) - "Fantastic"
ORKUS [DE] (9/10) - "With the debut 'Metal Heart' the Swede plays his trump somewhere between Nine Inch Nails, IAMX and My Bloody Valentine, and does so with great skill."
REFLECTIONS OF DARKNESS [DE] (8,5/10) - "I'm certain this album is gonna be a total success. Thumbs up!"
MEDIENKONVERTER [DE] (5/6) - "Using great talent to convert raw energy and dark dramatics into self igniting pathos bombs, The Kick is nothing like Roxette, Europe or Ace Of Base"
SONIC SEDUCER [DE] (-/-) - [i]"With gems like 'Freak'' and 'Dancer" this album does very well alongside stars like Nine Inch Nails and IAMX"[...
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"My Secret Friend" is the latest single from IAMX's recent album "Kingdom of Welcome Addiction" and features a rare duet with Imogen Heap, who herself has found recent chart success in USA, #5 on the Billboard chart and #2 on the download chart with her latest album. Surprisingly this is Chris Corners first duet with any artist of note but showing he has an as yet un-mined talent for collaborative material.
True to form "My Secret Friend" is yet another dark and innuendo filled electro pop gem, and is accompanied by a theatrical gender-bending video which throws Imogen into a twisted Tim Burton-esque down-the-rabbit-hole world of emotional mind games and inner demons. It's also interesting to note that this video is another first, being directed by Chris and filmed in his recently acquired studio complex, an old ruined GDR [East Germany] building just outside Berlin.
The single features a radio edit and a couple of remixes, including a mix with additional programming from Joe Wilson, a previous partner of Chris Corner from their days together in the Sneaker Pimps.
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-jMWzfj9gM
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"If there's one thing that Client's latest effort proves it's that, after six years, the synth-toting ice maidens should be a lot bigger." NME
"Client B (Sarah Blackwood) has one of the finest voices in modern music and the songs – hard-hitting, dirty slabs of thudding electronic beats – are edgy mini-masterpieces." MOJO
"Make Me Believe In You" is one of the finest tracks from Client's critically acclaimed forth album "Command". With a slick 808-infused groove, they transform Curtis Mayfield's 1974 hit into an enticing disco romp on a minimal electro-backdrop. The single features a tightened-up radio version plus remixes from Swedish electro-rockers The Kick and trance producer Rasmus Lindén and yet another two remixes!
