Artist: Anna Leong
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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:
01. Disfear - Deadweight
02. TALK 1
03. The Social Services - Up in arms
04. Kaka - The hotspurs (the less know the faster we go)
05. The Je Ne Sais Quoi - Manic panic
06. TALK 2
07. Tiger Lou - Patterns
08. Paper - My life is going under
09. Dreamboy - Stars
10. TALK 3
11. Lack - Watchmen
12. Don't Be A Stranger - Mon chi-chi
13. Ea Philippa - Heslenes sang
14. TALK 4
15. Ef - Thrills
16. Isolation Years - Yellow cross on blue
17. Frivolvol - Satellite kids
18. TALK 5
19. Enslaved - Eld
20. The Grand Opening - Secrets revealed
21. Ultralyd - Comphonie V
22. TALK 8
23. Firefok AK - Techno tears
24. The Indecision Alarm - Alienation process
25. Looptroop Rockers - Marinate
26. TALK 7
27. Markus Krunegård - Jag är en vampyr
28. The End Will Be Kicks - Exit ramps
29. Cadillac - Locomotive
30. TALK 8
31. Lukestar - Lake Toba
32. Commando M Pigg - Baby doll
33. Printer - Minds out
34. TALK 9
35. Seven Feet Four - Auto emotion
36. Tobias Hellkvist - Abomination
37. Barra Head - Undermine
38. TALK 10
39. Britta Persson - Happy hour
40. Anna Leong - Guillotine
41. Ted Gärdestad - Can't stop this train
42. TALK 11
Umeå-based act Anna Leong has completed their second full-length album "Terrorarium" and will be releasing it later this spring. As usual, they recorded the album themselves, but this time they sent it to Swedish expat Martin Terefe (Ron Sexsmith, Martha Wainwright, Teitur) in London for mixing. Look for the first single "Guillotine" to be posted for free download on February 25 via myspace.
Swedish indierock act The Tourist has a new two-track single posted for free download: http://www.thetourist.se/musik.html
Good, straightforward stuff. RIYL Isolation Years, Anna Leong.
Emerald Park has posted the new track "Umeå" to their myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/emeraldpark
Another band that recently did the exact same thing somewhat recently is Anna Leong - check out their own song "Umeå" here: http://www.myspace.com/annaleong
Here's the playlist for my radio show on Saturday:
01. Ted Gärdestad - Räcker jag till
02. TALK 1
03. The Setting Son - In a certain way
04. Beyond Dawn - TRNQL
05. Miss Li - Let her go
06. TALK 2
07. Jonna Lee - Dried out eyes
08. Death By Kite - Hiroshima
09. The Motorhomes - I wanna make you sing
10. TALK 3
11. Printer - Minds out
12. Alarma Man - Sweden, Sweden
13. Pistol Disco - Radiation
14. TALK 4
15. Knugen Faller - Lugna favoriter
16. Scraps of Tape - Since all the birds are moving, shouldn't we
17. Carpet People - If I lose my voice
18. TALK 5
19. Asha Ali - A promise broken
20. Ingenting - Punkdrommar
21. Holiday for Strings - I got two hands
22. TALK 6
23. NEI - City of gold
24. FAP - Sjömannen
25. Monoton - Hours
26. TALK 7
27. Deathbed - Everyday heroin
28. Dibaba - Go marching in
29. Johnossi - Execution song
30. Sista Sekunden - Se opp
31. TALK 8
32. Laakso - Worse case scenario
33. Tiger Lou - Sell out
34. Peter Bjorn and John - Matchmaker
35. TALK 9
36. Johndoe - Hardt som faen
37. Espen Jørgensen - Move ahead - quickly
38. Säkert! - Och jag grät mig till sömns efter alla dar
39. TALK 10
40. KVLR - Slow clapping
41. Anna Leong - 61
42. Final Exit - Bent out of shape
43. TALK 11
44. The Bear Quartet - Lights out, sound off
Friday's Sirius Blog Radio playlist:
01. The Alpine - Mondays look the same
02. TALK 1
03. Gravy - Back with the nerds
04. Giant Robot - Best match
05. Jomi Massage - A detail
06. TALK 2
07. Broder Daniel - Shoreline
08. The Grand Opening - Don't drop off
09. Moonbabies - Take me to the ballroom
10. Britta Persson - Oh how wrong
11. TALK 3
12. Lemonator - Would you die for me?
13. Trapdoor Fucking Exit - Short ends
14. Billie the Vision and the Dancers - Overdosing with you
15. TALK 4
16. Folie - Rocin
17. Robyn - Handle me
18. Laakso - Norrköping
19. TALK 5
20. Magnet - I walk the line
21. Isolation Years - Albino child
22. KVLR - Construction work
23. TALK 6
24. Anna Leong - 61
25. Tigerbombs - One giant leap
26. Motorpsycho - Hyena
27. TALK 7
28. Oskar Schönning - Other birds
29. Pan Sonic - Rähinä II / Mayhem II
30. Mercyful Fate - Evil
31. TALK 8
32. Ricochets - Come around over
33. Ghost Brigade - Based on you
34. Smalltown - The music
35. Popface - In the night
36. TALK 9
37. Circle Six - 1
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I always find it most interesting to hear the influences in some of the bands coming about these days, especially when they draw from surprising sources. Whilst one can see the obvious classic rock influences such as Neil Young and Big Star, there's also a very heavy influence of Cracker in Anna Leong. It could be the vocal delivery or the laid-back feel of the music, but it's there, and I commend them for taking on the best parts of the latter band. "After the forest fire" really is made for the fans of mid-90's American college rock. It's not a bad thing, it can just come off as a bit dated at points. However, the band excels in taking their sound to a higher level because the songwriting is very strong and they don't fall victim to needlessly dragging them out (even the almost ten-minute "Bothnian Rednecks" does not exceed its length in feel). Tracks such as "Jacket", "Fever" and the album closer "Sky is darkening" are solid pop songs, and I feel that if Anna Leong can remove the slightly dated feel of the music, they'll open up to a much wider audience.
- Matt Giordano
Lots of new releases are officially released today and now available in the store:
Achordian - A product of the 80s (mp3)
Aerial - The sentinel (CD + mp3)
Anna Leong - After the forest fire (CD)
Sofia Talvik - Street of dreams (mp3)
Go shopping! Also be aware that the price of the It's A Trap! Record Club will go up tomorrow, so you best get in now unless you want to pay more.
Anna Leong's new album "After the forest fire" is now in-stock and ready to ship: [click here]
It's not officially out until Thursday, but if you buy it now I'll get it shipped ASAP so you receive it on or around the release date.
Also note that I'm have a sale on skweee 7"s - buy more than one and get 15% off! Hook it up!
Anna Leong is a band, not a person. Well, it's probably the name of an actual person somewhere out there, but it's the band I'm talking about today. Some of you might remember these guys from the "Fever" single that they released on Chalksounds way back when and now they're back with their self-released debut album. Lots more bands are making the decision to go DIY these days and I salute them - it's never easy, but it's often the path that makes the most sense. If you're serious about your music, why not put your own money behind it? That's what drives me. I'm definitely not expecting much in return - I've got a dayjob to pay the bills.
But that's enough biz talk, the music is what matters after all. Anna Leong flirts with both country/folk and indiepop, more often coupling up with the latter, but never fully turning their back on their other love. The songs are all built around a simple strumming guitar and vocal line - everything else is purely icing on the cake. They could've just as easily taken it the other way and layered some steel guitar and changed up the rhythm section a bit to make it full-on country. With such pure, straightforward songwriting, anything is possible.
The new album "After the forest fire" comes out January 31 and I should hopefully have a few copies in-stock by then.
Anna Leong - They will know us
Umeå-based indie rockers Anna Leong have announced that their debut album "After the forest fire" will finally released on January 31 on the band's own White Weekend label. Recorded in the fall of '05 with Daniel Berglund (Isolation Years) engineering and co-producing, the album has been in limbo a long time since the group was left label-less after Chalksounds closed shop. Listen to the first single "They will know us" at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/annaleong
Umeå-based act Anna Leong has posted a brand new song for download: http://194.165.231.32/090.143907/jackan.mp3
Umeå's Anna Leong has left Chalksounds and is currently recording a new album with Daniel Berglund (Isolation Years) at Second Home Studios.
The Swedesplease music blog recently featured some stuff from Anna Leong, Gustaf Kjellvander and Paddington DC: http://swedesplease.blogspot.com/
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