This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Håkan Hellström
03. The Cardigans
04. Franz Ferdinand
05. Kent
06. I'm from Barcelona
07. Arctic Monkeys
08. Babyshambles
09. Sufjan Stevens

Top tracks:

01. Kent - Dom Som Försvann
02. Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
03. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
04. Death Cab for Cutie - Marching Bands of Manhattan
05. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
06. Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
07. Death Cab for Cutie - Summer Skin
08. Sir Eric Beyond - Democracy
09. Death Cab for Cutie - What Sarah Said

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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Kent
02. Death Cab for Cutie
03. I'm from Barcelona
04. Antony and the Johnsons
05. Franz Ferdinand
06. Coldplay
07. Mew
08. Interpol
09. Bright Eyes

Top tracks:

01. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
02. I'm from Barcelona - Treehouse
03. Kent - Dom Som Försvann
04. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
05. Loveninjas - Keep Your Love
06. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
07. Christian Kjellvander - Drunken Hands
08. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
09. Dungen - Panda

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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Kent
03. Hello Saferide
04. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
05. The Cardigans
06. I'm from Barcelona
07. Franz Ferdinand
08. The Shins
09. The Arcade Fire
10. Coldplay
11. Jens Lekman
12. Iron & Wine
13. Laakso
14. The Decemberists
15. Bloc Party
16. Tiger Lou
17. Architecture in Helsinki
18. The Strokes
19. David Fridlund
20. Sigur Rós

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This week's top tracks for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Kent - Dom Som Försvann
02. Kent - Vi Mot Världen
03. Sigur Rós - Gong
04. Kent - Månadens Erbjudande
05. Kate Bush - King of the Mountain
06. I'm from Barcelona - treehouse
07. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
08. Animal Collective - Grass
09. Kent - Flen/Paris
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body
11. Sigur Rós - Svo Hljótt
12. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Loop duplicate my heart
13. Hello Saferide - Nothing Like You (When You're Gone)
14. My Morning Jacket - Off The Record
15. Babyshambles - Fuck Forever
16. The Decemberists - Of Angels and Angles
17. My Morning Jacket - What A Wonderful Man
18. My Morning Jacket - Anytime
19. Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - Marry me
20. Sigur Rós - Glósóli

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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. The Decemberists
02. Franz Ferdinand
03. Sigur Rós
04. Broken Social Scene
05. Interpol
06. The Cardigans
07. Kent
08. Sufjan Stevens
09. Death Cab for Cutie

Top tracks:

01. Håkan Hellström - Ge mig arsenik
02. I'm from Barcelona - Treehouse
03. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
04. The Decemberists - Leslie Anne Levine
05. Animal Collective - Grass
06. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
07. The Mopeds - Refused Demo Land
08. Animal Collective - Did You See the Words
09. Randy - Better Than Art

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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. The Cardigans
02. I'm from Barcelona
03. Sufjan Stevens
04. Franz Ferdinand
05. The Bear Quartet
06. Death Cab for Cutie
07. The Decemberists
08. Coldplay
09. Kent

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This week's top artists for the It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group:

01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. The Decemberists
03. The Strokes
04. Hello Saferide
05. The Arcade Fire
06. Mew
07. The Libertines
08. Broken Social Scene
09. Sufjan Stevens

Top songs:

01. Laakso - In my blood
02. Mew - Special
03. The Strokes - You Only Live Once
04. The Decemberists - We Both Go Down Together
05. I'm from Barcelona - The Painter
06. Broken Social Scene - Stars and Sons
07. Hello Saferide - If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die
08. Hello Saferide - Get Sick Soon
09. Death Cab for Cutie - Lightness

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This week's top artists for the Itsatrap Audioscrobbler/Last.fm listening group:

01. Mew
02. Sigur Rós
03. Franz Ferdinand
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. Randy
06. Architecture in Helsinki
07. Of Montreal
08. M83
09. I'm from Barcelona

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Valley Days has posted a bunch of excellent demo tracks for download: http://valleydays.se/
As mentioned before, Valley Days is a band fronted by Emanuel Lundgren who has gotten some recent hype from his other new act I'm From Barcelona. Where IFB is full of rapturous joy, VD is much more subdued and melancholy. Both are very, very good, so be sure to check 'em out.

Podcast: Build it up, break it down, mess it up

The last post in this week of new and up-and-coming acts comes from Barcelona. Well, actually the band is called I'm From Barcelona, but the band themselves are from Sweden. I've been a fan of frontman Emanuel Lundgren's music from the very first moment I heard him with Valley Days and his new act is just as good, if not better. The best thing about it is just how amazingly joyous it sounds. Every song is a bountiful pop symphony. I'm a sucker for self-aware/self-referencial art, so I picked "The painter" as the track to post here, but I like said, every song they've recorded so far is wonderful. Download more here: http://www.imfrombarcelona.com/

MP3: I'm From Barcelona - The painter

The last post in this week of new and up-and-coming acts comes from Barcelona. Well, actually the band is called I'm From Barcelona, but the band themselves are from Sweden. I've been a fan of frontman Emanuel Lundgren's music from the very first moment I heard him with Valley Days and his new act is just as good, if not better. The best thing about it is just how amazingly joyous it sounds. Every song is a bountiful pop symphony. I'm a sucker for self-aware/self-referential art, so I picked "The painter" as the track to post here, but I like said, every song they've recorded so far is wonderful. Download more here: http://www.imfrombarcelona.com/

I'm From Barcelona - The painter

Download some tracks from Swedish pop orchestra I'm from Barcelona, a new act fronted by Emmanuel Lundgren of Valley Days: http://www.imfrombarcelona.com/
Seriously some of the best new undiscovered pop music that I've heard in a long time. At the very least, listen to "Treehouse".