Lykke Li, Air France and Paavoharju have made Gorilla vs Bear's top 20 albums of 2008 list: https://gorillavsbear.blogspot.com/2008/12/gorilla-vs-bears-albums-of-2008.html
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show:
01. Hello Saferide - 2008
02. TALK 1
03. The Fine Arts Showcase - Friday on my knees
04. Juvelen - Hanna
05. Dmitry Fyodorov - MD5VSSHA1
06. TALK 2
07. Paper - Out of it into it
08. Katzenjammer - Tea with cinnamon
09. Kristofer Åström - Just a little insane
10. TALK 3
11. Mattias Hellberg & The White Moose - Why is it so?
12. Parken - Vad ska vi göra med Henry?
13. Johan Heltne - Hjärta. Instinkt. Principer.
14. TALK 4
15. Marybell Katastrophy - Hidden agenda
16. The Bear Quartet - What I hate
17. Brainbombs - Stalker
18. TALK 5
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XM U. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Sincerely Yours (The Tough Alliance, etc.) have a new video posted online: https://www.sincerelyyours.se/yours0094.html
Feel free to post the artist and song if you know it.
The latest Dmitry Fyodorov single "MD5VSSHA1" is now available for free download along with two remixes: https://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=207
Swedish label Sudd is calling it quits, but they're not going quietly -- head to their site for one last free downloadable comp: https://www.sudd.org/
Hello everyone, it's December 1 so that means it's time once again for our annual top 10 blowout. As with year's past, we'll be publishing a new guest list from a different contributor each and every day all the way until New Year's. Up first: Thomas Denver Jonsson
I don't have the entire month booked quite yet, so if you feel up to contributing your own list, get in touch!
Goodnight Monsters
Summer challenge
Bone Voyage
If you're into such bands as The Ladybug Transistor, Essex Green and The Lucksmiths, Finland's Goodnight Monsters could well be worth investigating. Their first album came out in late 2005 and it was quite decent, with a handful of memorable tunes on it. "Summer challenge" is a more professional album that feels like a real follow-up and improvement from their previous offering (unlike a lot of second albums). The songs can come across a bit cheesy now and then, and Goodnight Monsters don't really manage to carry off their happy go lucky twee schtick for 13 songs, but it's an enjoyable album and by listening to it in the freezing cold outside, I can go back to one of those teenage delusions and pretend I'm walking down some Californian beach, eating a corn dog and drinking a cherry Coke (smiling, not retching!).
- Simon Tagestam
MP3: Brainbombs - Stalker
One thing I neglected to mention in my previous Brainbombs post is that despite my grievous misgivings, I actually really do like them, though I'm not so sure I'd go so far as to say I "enjoy" them. The band's new album "Fucking mess" is exactly that: a shambling wreck of what most people construe to be "music". At the same time, it's also absolutely mesmerizing. I'm disgusted with myself for listening to something with so few redeemable qualities, yet that's exactly what makes it what it is. It's vile, violent, deranged and positively disgusting. It's also incredibly lurid and fascinating, nothing but intense bad vibes and a constant threat of danger. Are the people behind songs like "Stalker" really as sick as they sound? Or is it a put-on? How can endless atonal loping and trumpet bleats like shit-stains be so compelling? I'm not sure, but I can't stop listening.
Brainbombs - Stalker
It's a Trap! is on vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Regular updates will resume on Monday, December 1.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives have a weird new website: https://www.tsool.net/
Not useful in the slightest, but at least it's somewhat entertaining.
Swedish indierockers Speedmarket Avenue have a new video for the single "Don't fall in love": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utAIXRCsiXU
Norwegian act Heroes & Zeros say that they hope to wrap up recording their sophomore album this month. The band says, "As always, our sound is massive, however the songs are more ominous and darker than on (first album) 'Strange constellation'." No word on when it will be released, but I'll keep you posted.
PopMatters reviews The (International) Noise Conspiracy's new album "The cross of my calling": https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/66078-the-international-noise-conspiracy-the-cross-of-my-calling/
Apparently it's not available for viewing in the US, but Swedish rap artist Lazee's new video for "I'm not pop" is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWEQ10KfBRM