Taken By Trees at Fluxblog

New music from Taken By Trees at Fluxblog: http://www.fluxblog.org/2009/08/be-in-be-out-be-in

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Mew
02. The Bear Quartet
03. Hello Saferide
04. Frida Hyvönen
05. Anna Ternheim
06. Håkan Hellström
07. Grizzly Bear
08. The Big Pink
09. Yo La Tengo
10. Taken By Trees

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Taken By Trees in the Forkcast

New music from Taken By Trees in the Pitchfork Forkcast: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13233-watch-the-waves/

New Taken By Trees in September

The new Taken By Trees album "East of Eden" will be released on September 8 via Rough Trade.

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Hello Saferide
02. Tiger Lou
03. Anna Ternheim
04. Taken By Trees
05. Glasvegas
06. Frida Hyvönen
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Kent
09. Juvelen
10. Dungen

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Said the Gramophone on The Tough Alliance's cover of "Taken too young" by Taken By Trees: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/greenhouses.php

Taken By Trees, the solo act of ex-Concretes frontwoman Victoria Bergsman, will do a few North American dates in February:

02/22 - Zipper Theatre, New York, NY
02/23 - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
02/25 - Musée Juste Pour Rire, Montreal, Quebec
02/28 - The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA
03/01 - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA
03/04 - Triple Door, Seattle, WA

Look her new single covering "Sweet child o' mine" by Guns'n'Roses on February 19 both in digital and 7" format.

The Cricket's favorite Swedish albums of 2007:

01. Studio - Yearbook 1
02. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
03. Säkert! - Säkert!
04. Taken By Trees - Open Field
05. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
06. Christian Kjellvander - I See Her From Here/I See Here From Her
07. José Gonzáles - In Our Nature
08. Anna Järvinen - Jag fick feeling
09. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
10. Natalie Gardiner - California

Read more: http://www.thecricket.nu/recensioner.asp?id=969

The nominees for the Swedish Radio P3 Guld awards have been announced:

Pop:
Anna Järvinen - Jag fick feeling
Friday Bridge - Intricacy
Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
Sambassadeur - Migration
Taken By Trees - Open Field

Dance:
Aril Brikha - Ex machina
Axwell - collected work
Minilogue - collected work
The Field - From here we go sublime
Tiger Stripes - collected work

Rock/metal:
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
Kongh - Counting heartbeats
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Mustasch - Latest version of the truth

Hiphop/soul:
Petter - God damn it
Ken - Äntligen hemma
Adam Tensta - It's a Tensta Thing
Million stylez - From A Far
Basutbudet - Svensk bas

Newcomer:
Adam Tensta
Maia Hirasawa
Million Stylez
Neverstore
Those Dancing Days

Female artist:
Laleh - Prinsessor
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Miss Li - God Put A Rainbow In The Sky
September - Dancing Shoes
Säkert! - Säkert!

Male artist:
Danny - Heart. Beats.
Jens Lekman - Night falls over Kortedala
Lars Winnerbäck - Daugava
Mange Schmidt - Känslan kommer tillbaks
Salem Al Fakir - This Is Who I Am

Group:
Kent - Tillbaka till samtiden
Mando Diao - Never Seen The Light Of Day
Sahara Hotnights - What If Leaving Is A Loving Thing
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
The Ark - Prayer For The Weekend

Song:
Kleerup with Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Mange Schmidt feat. Petter - Giftig
Oh Laura - Release Me
Sahara Hotnights - Cheek To Cheek
Säkert! - Vi kommer att dö samtidigt

Guldmicken (live):
Laakso
Mustasch
Salem Al Fakir
Säkert!
Timo Räisänen

More info: http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/p3/nyhetssidor/index.asp?programID=3014

Mai
Still need a kiss
Nacopajaz

Johanna Wedin is at her best when the landscape she creates is comprised of haunting, dreamy tones, with her voice slipping through this artic scenery like fog given motion by a soft breeze. Luckily, this is majority of her debut album "Still need a kiss", which often feels like a warm mix of Decibully, Trespasser William, and Taken By Trees. Compositions like "You should come" and opener "Snowing downtown" encapsulate the beauty of being isolated with one's thoughts, a theme that I often find myself exploring in these autumn months (especially now that the American East Coast is no longer plagued by 90 degree [32 Celsius] days in October). While there is really nothing to forcefully complain about on Mai's first effort, there is a slight unevenness in tone and delivery that keeps this record from becoming a wintry classic. That said, Wedin's sophomore effort may easily correct these missteps, and that would truly be something.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

PopMatters reviews Taken By Trees: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/music/reviews/47790/taken-by-trees-open-field/

Taken By Trees will perform live this fall:

09/13 - Stenhammarsalen Gothenburg (SWE) w/Ass
09/14 - Inkonst Teatern, Malmo (SWE) w/Ass
09/16 - Södra Teatern, Stockholm (SWE) w/Ass
09/25 - Sugar Club, Dublin (IRL) w/Ass
09/26 - Bush Hall, London (UK) w/Ass
10/02 - Le Divan Du Monde, Paris (FRA)
10/04 - Botanique (Witloof Bar), Brussels (BEL)
10/05 - Privatclub, Berlin (GER)
11/24 - Crossing Border Festival, Haag (NL)

For all the trials and tribulations that went into Victoria Bergsman's decision to return to the stage, go here: http://www.takenbytrees.com/

Also at Dusted, a rewiew of Taken By Trees that I found to be quite illuminating: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3833

International music blog Fat Planet on Taken By Trees: http://www.fatplanet.com.au/blog/2007/09/01/taken-by-trees-sweden/

Also at Discobelle, a Tough Alliance remix of Taken By Trees: http://www.discobelle.net/2007/08/15/taken-too-young/