This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Timbuktu - Oberoendeframkallande
02. Erik Segerstedt - A different shade
03. Caroline Af Ugglas - Joplin på Svenska
04. Sophie Zelmani - Memory loves you
05. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
06. Weeping Willows - Fear & love
07. Lena Philipsson - Lena 20 år
08. Lasse Stefanz - 40 ljuva år!
09. Calaisa - Calaisa
10. Veronica Maggio - Vatten & bröd
11. Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues
12. Laleh - Prinsessor
14. Säkert! - Säkert
15. Fläskkvartetten - Voices of Eden
16. Jill Johnson - The woman I've become
17. Östen Med Resten - 19 bästa och resten med Östen
18. Moneybrother - Pengabrorsan
19. Martin Stenmarck - Nio sanningar och en lögn
20. Anna Ternheim - Separation road
Tigerbombs have updated their myspace with four new songs from their forthcoming album "Things that go boom", including two tracks that feature guest vocals from Paola: https://www.myspace.com/tigerbombs
Aversionline reviews Aerial's "The sentinel", one of my favorite albums so far in 2007: https://www.aversionline.com/blahg/2007/03/01/aerial-the-sentinel-cd/
The new Moonbabies album "Moonbabies at the ballroom" is now confirmed for a March 21 release in Scandivia via Startracks/V2 and May 29 in the US via Hidden Agenda/Parasol. Once again, check out the video for the single "War on sound": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv9oAulmgCI
Listen to the Thomas Öberg (Bob Hund/Bergman Rock/Sci-Fi Skane)/Graham Lewis (Wire) collaboration 27#11 at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/twentyseveneleven
A new month means a new album of the month selection for the record club, so if you'll look to the right you'll see that March's selection is "Museum of future sound", the new skweee comp on the way from Flogsta Danshall. This disc is so fresh, it won't be ready for shipping until mid-month, but you can preview a few tracks at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/flogstadanshall
Want to learn more about the new sensation known as skweee? Start with wikipedia and venture onward!
Also note that the price of subscription has gone up another dollar to $12/mo, still a total steal considering all the extras you get for being a member. I'm gonna try to hold it at this price for awhile, but we'll see how it goes. I gotta cover costs, y'know?
The other exciting news for the day is that I've started taking preorders on the new Logh 7" I'm putting out. It's been sent to press, so I expect to have the finished product within 3-4 weeks at the most. In the meantime, I've posted the b-side for download 'cuz I know that a lot of people are excited to hear it. Logh + Britta Persson covering the theme to "Twin Peaks". How awesome is that?
Logh - Into the night (live w/Britta Persson)
My god, "Smother + Evil = Hurt" is such an achingly beautiful song. It's the kind of song that grabs you right away, the very first time you hear it. And that longing, desperate vocal! It's a heartbreaker. But that's not the Kissaway Trail song I'm going to post for you today. By all means, go seek it out elsewhere, but I want to showcase the band's softer, more delicate side. They do the epic bombast thing very well, however it's songs like "It's close up faraway" that prove they have more to offer. That frail falsetto is gorgeous and the wordless refrain a perfect counterpoint. There are many obvious parallels to the Arcade Fire beyond them sharing the same cover artist and making good use of mandolin and banjo, the artist I'm reminded most of on this song is A-ha. It's that ineffable Nordic melancholy quality, I guess. The rest of the record leans more heavily towards the louder side of things, but the fact that they can pull off a piece like this shows them to be a force worth reckoning with. I would not be at all surprised if these guys blew up after SXSW.
The Kissaway Trail - It's close up faraway
Dates and details for the upcoming Thomas Denver Jonsson UK tour:
05/02 - Upstairs at The Prince Albert, Brighton (UK)
05/04 - Brel, Glasgow (UK) w/Tim O' Reagan (Jayhawks)
05/05 - The Chattery, Swansea (UK)
05/06 - Maltcross, Nottingham (UK) w/Spaceships Are Cool
05/08 - The Good Ship, London (UK)
05/09 - Candy Mountain, Manchester Phoenix, Manchester (UK) w/Marissa Nadler
Norwegian shoegazers The Low Frequency in Stereo will be releasing a new 10" EP eneitled "Amtrak diesel" this coming June. The band considers the record to be "The last temptation of...The Low Frequency in Stereo pt.2" and recorded it last Summer in Oslo.
The (International) Noise Conspiracy has posted an update from LA where they are working with Rick Rubin on recording a new album: https://www.internationalnoise.com/news.asp
Superfamily's video for the single "The radio has expressed concerns about what you did last night" is now up on myspace: https://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2011745849
It's not quite as clever as the band's two previous clips, but the song is still great so it's recommended viewing.
Check out the video for "Little girl" from Swedish country/pop act Achordian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6gBrj_Yb08
The video for Maia Hirasawa's new single "And I found this boy" is now online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIyb8Sqol8
Very cute.