This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Knife
02. Radiohead
03. Belle and Sebastian
04. The Radio Dept.
05. Anna Ternheim
06. The Decemberists
07. The Killers
08. Beck
09. Death Cab for Cutie
10. Kent

And the top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Arcade Fire – Funeral
02. The Knife – Silent Shout
03. The Knife – Deep Cuts
04. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
05. Cansei de Ser Sexy – Cansei de Ser Sexy
06. Band of Horses – Everything All the Time
07. The Shins – Chutes Too Narrow
08. The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief
09. Radiohead – OK Computer
10. Belle and Sebastian – If You're Feeling Sinister

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. The Killers
02. Death Cab for Cutie
03. Anna Ternheim
04. Radiohead
05. Beck
06. Sufjan Stevens
07. Bloc Party
08. The Knife
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Yo La Tengo

The far less exciting top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Killers – When You Were Young
02. The Killers – Sam's Town
03. Anna Ternheim – Feels Like Sand
04. Anna Ternheim – Girl laying down
05. The Killers – Read my mind
06. Anna Ternheim – Lovers Dream
07. Beck – Think I'm In Love
08. The Killers – For Reasons Unknown
09. The Killers – Bones
10. Anna Ternheim – Such a lonely soul

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 albums of the week:

01. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
02. The Knife - Silent Shout
03. The Knife - Deep Cuts
04. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
05. Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites
06. The Postal Service - Give Up
07. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
08. Of Montreal - The Sunlandic Twins
09. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
10. Hot Chip - The Warning

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Rapture – Pieces Of The People We Love
02. Irene – Little Things (That Tear Us Apart)
03. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
04. Marit Bergman – No Party
05. The Plan – Walk for gold
06. Laakso – High Drama
07. Mando Diao – Killer Kaczynski
08. The Knife – Silent shout
09. The Radio Dept. – It's Personal
10. Isis – Dulcinea

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. Radiohead
02. Death Cab for Cutie
03. The Knife
04. Hello Saferide
05. The Radio Dept.
06. Belle and Sebastian
07. Camera Obscura
08. Peter Bjorn and John
09. The Postal Service
10. The Arcade Fire

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
02. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
03. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
04. The Radio Dept. – It's Personal
05. Hello Saferide – If I Don't Write This Song, Someone I Love Will Die
06. Hello Saferide – I Don't Sleep Well
07. Tiger Lou – Like My Very Own Blood
08. Hello Saferide – The Quiz
09. José González – Heartbeats
10. The Arcade Fire – Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played album chart:

01. The Knife - Silent Shout
02. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
03. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
04. The Arcade Fire - Funeral
05. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
06. The Embassy - Tacking
07. The Knife - Deep Cuts
08. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
09. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
10. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Knife – silent shout
02. The Legends – Lucky star
03. Camera Obscura – If Looks Could Kill
04. The Pipettes – Pull Shapes
05. The Embassy – Some indulgence
06. Gnarls Barkley – Crazy
07. Camera Obscura – Let's Get Out of This Country
08. Lily Allen – Smile
09. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
10. The Pipettes – Dirty Mind

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played album chart:

01. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
02. Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
03. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
04. The Knife - Deep Cuts
05. Hello Saferide - Introducing...
06. The Knife - Silent Shout
07. Hot Chip - The Warning
08. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
09. Radiohead - OK Computer
10. Interpol - Antics

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
02. Peter Bjorn and John – Young Folks
03. Tiger Lou – The Loyal
04. Laakso – High Drama
05. Tiger Lou – Nixon
06. Camera Obscura – Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
07. Thom Yorke – Skip divided
08. José González – Heartbeats
09. Hello Saferide – Long Lost Penpal
10. Tiger Lou – Ten Minutes To Take Off

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The Radio Dept.
Pet grief
Labrador

In the endlessly fertile sonic croplands of Scandinavia, there's a certain strain of music you can harvest that might be termed "nostalgic pop." It's the kind of music that bypasses your intellect and goes straight for your emotions, albeit through a sort of gauzy filter. The Radio Dept. are ace practitioners of this sound, and their second album "Pet grief" is a sublime piece of work. It's uncanny how these Swedes know exactly what notes to hit, exactly which chord should follow THAT chord to maximize the "tingle effect" (the emotional response you have when a musical element really grabs you). This album has a remarkably cohesive mood, partly due to the organic shimmer provided by the guitars, simple keyboards and austere production, and partly from the soft, subdued vocals of Johan Duncanson. If you're into the reflective allure of what is often called "shoegaze," you can't do much better. The most immediately gripping example of The Radio Dept.'s style is "Every time," which features one of those spot-on chord progressions strummed breezily on acoustic guitars, a lullingly soft rhythm track and a subtle wall of "processed static" that struck me as the equivalent of a nostalgia portal, inviting the listener to come on through and let those stirred-up memories have their way with you for a spell. The voice really does seem to come from another time and place. "Always a relief" is also sheer perfection, everything about it as tasteful and cannily arranged as a song can be. If you're still grieving over some failed love affair, this kind of contemplative, far-off-staring album could induce tears, but if you really like to lose yourself in melancholic, dreamy Scandi-pop, you couldn't do much better than this.
- Kevin Renick

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. Camera Obscura
02. Radiohead
03. Interpol
04. Phoenix
05. Jens Lekman
06. David & the Citizens
07. The Radio Dept.
08. Tiger Lou
09. Bloc Party
10. Kings of Convenience

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
02. Camera Obscura - Tears for Affairs
03. Camera Obscura - I Need All the Friends I Can Get
04. The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
05. Camera Obscura - Dory Previn
06. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
07. Camera Obscura - If Looks Could Kill
08. Camera Obscura - Come Back Margaret
09. David & the Citizens - Absent Mind
10. The Knife - Silent shout

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Knife
02. Radiohead
03. Camera Obscura
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. Belle and Sebastian
06. Sufjan Stevens
07. Tiger Lou
08. The Radio Dept.
09. The Pipettes
10. The Flaming Lips

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
02. Camera Obscura - I Need All the Friends I Can Get
03. Araki - Love To Run
04. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
05. The Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
06. Band of Horses - The First Song
07. Audrey - Mecklenburg
08. Tiger Lou - Nixon
09. The Knife - silent shout
10. The Knife - Neverland

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Pipettes
02. The Knife
03. Belle and Sebastian
04. Radiohead
05. The Radio Dept.
06. Death Cab for Cutie
07. Calexico
08. Kent
09. Sufjan Stevens
10. Hot Chip

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. The Pipettes - Dirty Mind
02. Hot Chip - Over and Over
03. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
04. Sambassadeur - Kate
05. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
06. The Pipettes - Your Kisses are Wasted on Me
07. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
08. David & the Citizens - Are you in my blood?
09. The Tough Alliance - Silly Crimes
10. The Tough Alliance - Kill Kill Kill

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This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. Radiohead
02. Sufjan Stevens
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. Belle and Sebastian
06. The Pipettes
07. The Knife
08. Hello Saferide
09. Franz Ferdinand
10. Hot Chip

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
02. Vapnet - Thoméegränd
03. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
04. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes
05. The Radio Dept. - A window
06. The Radio Dept. - Tell
07. Band of Horses - Wicked Gil
08. The Concretes - Chosen One
09. Band of Horses - The Funeral
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body

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[ingenting]
Sommardagboken
Labrador

Forget about the Kent-like live track (which is actually a Radio Dept. cover, sung in Swedish) and the ambient (and "watery") remix, and concentrate on the first three normal tracks on the new EP from [ingenting] (which is Swedish for "nothing"). The two first songs are poppy summer songs and then it slows down with the third track "Så varm, så kall", but it's still good stuff. [ingenting] are labelmates with Acid House Kings and The Radio Dept. but since they sing in Swedish, I doubt their music will travel outside Scandinavia. This is a damn shame, since their songs are as good as aforementioned bands', it's just a bit less twee/shoegazing and more pure indie pop. Try it, you might like it even if you don't speak Swedish.
- Simon Tagestam

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Knife
02. Tiger Lou
03. Death Cab for Cutie
04. Belle and Sebastian
05. The Radio Dept.
06. Radiohead
07. Kent
08. The Postal Service
09. The Flaming Lips
10. Gnarls Barkley

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
02. Tiger Lou - Nixon
03. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
04. Band of Horses - The Funeral
05. I'm from Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
06. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken
07. Le Sport - it's not the end of the world
08. Alarma Man - Doctors, Listeners And Spectators Says Viva The Knife
09. Hell on Wheels - Come On
10. Sambassadeur - Kate

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This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Magnus Carlsson - Magnus carlsson
02. BWO - Halcyon days
03. Eric Gadd - Eric Gadd
04. Totta & Wiehe - Dylan
05. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
06. David Urwitz - I väntan på vad
07. Anna Book - Let's dance + 13 favoriter
08. Sebastian - Sebastian
09. Backyard Babies - People like people like people like us
10. The Refreshments - 24-7
11. Magnus Uggla - Ett bedårande barn av sin tid
12. Andreas Johnson - Mr johnson, your room is on fire
13. I'm From Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends
14. Linda Bengtzing - Ingenting att förlora
15. The Knife - Silent shout
16. Laleh - Laleh
17. Björn Skifs - Decennier sånger från en annan tid
18. The Radio Dept. - Pet grief
19. Anna Christoffersson/Steve Dobrogosz - It's always you
20. Lotta Engberg - Världens bästa lotta

This week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:

01. The Radio Dept.
02. Tiger Lou
03. Radiohead
04. Vapnet
05. The Flaming Lips
06. Death Cab for Cutie
07. Built to Spill
08. Belle and Sebastian
09. Bright Eyes
10. Kent

Top 10 tracks for the week:

01. Gnarls barkley - Crazy
02. Vapnet - Thoméegränd
03. The Radio Dept. - A window
04. Sambassadeur - Kate
05. Band of Horses - The Funeral
06. My Enemy - What is love
07. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
08. Built to Spill - Conventional Wisdom
09. Holy Madre - Shallow Bay
10. The Radio Dept. - Tell

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