Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Tiger Lou
02. Frida Hyvönen
03. Anna Ternheim
04. Juvelen
05. Hello Saferide
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Kent
08. Jens Lekman
09. Britta Persson
10. The Legends
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Glasvegas
04. Detektivbyrån
05. The Knife
06. Britta Persson
07. Anna Ternheim
08. Fredrik
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Logh
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Glasvegas
03. Laakso
04. The Radio Dept.
05. Those Dancing Days
06. Familjen
07. Håkan Hellström
08. The Embassy
09. Kent
10. Tiger Lou
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Anna Ternheim
03. Håkan Hellström
04. Detektivbyrån
05. Club 8
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Frida Hyvönen
08. Jens Lekman
09. The Tough Alliance
10. Shout Out Louds
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Today's mp3 post comes courtesy of Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson:
Combining the distinct feel of Scandinavian electronic music championed by The Radio Dept. with a skeletal construction similar to those utilized by Four Tet and the Notwist, "Yes this is my broken shield", the opening track from The Deer Tracks' debut "Aurora", leisurely builds on its layers of instrumentation until the inertia generated erupts into one of the most wonderful closing segments I've heard in a while. At first, beeps are overlaid with glockenspiel notes, then with pads and subtle percussion, then vocals, all slowly augmenting, gradually gathering momentum. From this beautiful, humble, almost ambling foundation, "Yes this is my broken shield" transforms delicately into a epic outburst rivaling the finest tracks from M83's seminal "Before the dawn heals us". Its energetic, anthemic ending seems alien to its ethereal inception, though there is no sudden break, no sharp detours, no cheap tricks. The Deer Tracks effortlessly and seamlessly string their composition together. The Deer Tracks have raised the bar. Other acts should take note.
The Deer Tracks - Yes this is my broken shield
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Detektivbyrån
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Jens Lekman
05. Logh
06. Håkan Hellström
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Tiger Lou
09. Kent
10. Juvelen
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German webzine Fallen/Legen has created a mixtape to accompany an article they posted focusing on the Swedish scene down in the southlands of Malmö and Skåne: http://www.fallen-legen.de/?p=359
Artists featured include Logh, Familjen, The Radio Dept. plus a whole lot more good stuff - very recommended! Deutsch reading comprehension not required.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Frida Hyvönen
03. Håkan Hellström
04. Loney, Dear
05. Billie the Vision & The Dancers
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Kite
08. The Bear Quartet
09. Vapnet
10. Le Sport
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Hello Saferide
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Detektivbyrån
04. Pelle Carlberg
05. Jens Lekman
06. Loney, Dear
07. The Radio Dept.
08. Acid House Kings
09. Air France
10. The Soundtrack of Our Lives
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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. Håkan Hellström
04. Fleet Foxes
05. Familjen
06. Christian Kjellvander
07. Sambassadeur
08. Broder Daniel
09. The Radio Dept.
10. Pelle Carlberg
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Håkan Hellström
02. Laakso
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Detektivbyrån
05. Kent
06. Sambassadeur
07. The Concretes
08. The Kid
09. Studio
10. Tiger Lou
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Håkan Hellström
02. Laakso
03. The Radio Dept.
04. Detektivbyrån
05. Kent
06. Sambassadeur
07. The Concretes
08. The Kid
09. Studio
10. Tiger Lou
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Here is the It's a Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Sigur Rós
02. Coldplay
03. Radiohead
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. MGMT
06. Belle and Sebastian
07. The Radio Dept.
08. Kent
09. Håkan Hellström
10. The Cure
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Majessic DreamsThe influence of 1960s folk music is wrapped perfectly around the mechanism of Scandinavian pop music with Majessic Dreams. Finger-picked acoustic guitars find themselves awash in a sea of warm keyboards and distinctly Scandinavian voices, sometimes echoing the themes of The Radio Dept., other times recalling more Americana influences, especially with tracks like "Wish he was you". Like Promise and the Monster, this act crafts magnificent dreamscapes with their stratified instrumentation, the guitar strings retaining their staccato appeal without coming across as coarse or brash. The only failing of "Beautiful days" is that its emotional core seems rather stagnant -- tracks flow too easily into one another, and soon the entire affair becomes a beautiful blur instead of a collection of beautiful, individual songs. With repeated listens, this failing may slip away for some. Definitely worth a listen, if nothing else.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Here is the It's a Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:
01. Death Cab for Cutie
02. Radiohead
02. Sigur Rós
04. The Radio Dept.
05. Jens Lekman
06. Håkan Hellström
07. MGMT
08. Coldplay
08. Lykke Li
10. José González
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