Artist: Sonjagon
Viewing posts 1-8 out of 8Sirius playlist week #20
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Bruket - Stockholm kallar
02. TALK 1
03. The Skull Defekts - Knives, birds, stones & pyramids
04. Cilihili - Happy without the boy
05. Elenette - Kär (imaginär) pensionär
06. TALK 2
07. Existensminimum - Sound of music
08. Volcanic Places - Goo
09. Sonjagon - Aristocrat
10. TALK 3
11. Superfamily - Let's go dancing
12. The Scrags - TV messed up mind
13. Bastard Priest - Merciless insane death
14. Bacchus Tapes - Hold on Magnolia
15. TALK 4
16. Halph - Cheap points
17. Vadadi - 10 seconds before
18. Wired for Mono - The man behind the wall
19. TALK 5
20. Tomas Halberstad - Travel as I wait
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Absolut Noise interviews Sonjagon, gives away single
Absolut Noise talks to Sonjagon and offers up the band's new single "Aristocrat" as a free download: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2009/05/arches-interview.html
Sonjagon debut on the way in May
Hyped Swedish indie act Sonjagon will finally release their debut album "Arches" on May 6.
Absolut Noise talks to up-and-coming Swedish act Sonjagon: http://absolutnoise.blogspot.com/2008/11/post-grunge-in-slow-motion.html
Sonjagon
Demo
self-released
Sonjagon are a band fresh out of school, from Stockholm. Musically their sound is expansive and epic. The obvious references which spring to mind on "Buckybell Wtai" and "Aristocrat" are Muse and Jeff Buckley and the band are all very competent musicians, with the falsetto of Jacob Stenberg easily matching Matt Bellamy et al. The most interesting of the four demo tracks however, is "Abbey Lake", a hypnotic piano-led soundscape with echoey reverb drenched vocals. "Original sound", whilst being the most conventional track on the demo, shows the most commercial promise and could well end up as a lighter aloft stadium set-closer.
Sonjagon are far from the finished article, but they have a hell of a lot of potential. They are a rough diamond which may well dazzle in time. If you're about in Stockholm on the 27th September, be sure to check the band out at Berns.
- Nick Levine
