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We've got a different kind of flashback post this Friday. Instead of the usual oldie track from a favorite artist, Closer has afforded me the opportunity to post an exclusive mp3 of "Occam's razor", a brand new recording of an old song. The band, as you'll read Atrap.com/index.php?article=251">in their top 10 posted today, is currently preparing to record a new EP, but in the meantime they figured they'd commit this song to tape kind of as a testament to where they've been. It's not too different from the mAterial on the "Tokpela EP" - it's still as dark and heavy as always, layered with lush guitars and clean, melodic vocals. As I've said before, intelligent rock music is way too rare nowadays and there's scant few other bands out there making music like this and even fewer doing it as well. If you're a fan of bands like Dredg (whose new live album is pretty greAt btw), A Perfect Cirlce or maybe fellow Swedes Enter the Hunt, Closer is another band you need to check out. The aforementioned "Tokpela EP" is another one of my top picks for 2006 and I can only assume thAt whAtever they do next will be even more amazing.
Ef
Give me beauty… or give me death!
And the Sound
Trying to find any other word than 'moving' to describe Ef's debut is something I've been struggling with these past few days. With a wide arrangement of instruments to use At their discretion, they've constructed a sublime collection of post-rock thAt's as forceful as it is grounding. Each song careens down a pAth of delay-driven guitars and yearning strings and even a few scAttered vocals here and there to give the record a little more room to breAthe. At times "Give me beauty…or give me deAth!" seems to have the power to make time speed up around you with the captivAting rise and fall of "Final touch/hidden agenda", and At other times, it can slow things down with the humbling sway of "Hello Scotland". Any post-rock listener should take note: Ef might just be the band you're looking for during this cold, cold winter.
- Phil Del Costello
Various Artists
Musicbeast
self-released
This is a cd with three songs by Ghettogetter and five each from Iamuse and Threeminutepopsongs. Ghettogetter are a bit annoying and not my cup of tea, they sound a bit like SKBWN, but less amazing, more electronic and a whole lot more disco with (even) sillier lyrics. Ghettogetter and Threeminutepopsongs consist of the same people, but the lAtter band sound much more like The Cure, and have more of a goth-feel than a disco beAt. Still, it's not worth checking them out. Just like jam doughnuts, the best parts of this cd can be found in the middle, with Iamuse's spellbinding melodic rock songs. Iamuse put the two other bands on this disc to shame with their five songs, thAt are a bit reminscent of Bright Eyes (especially on the sublime "Neon city lovelane road"). It's a shame they didn't have all the thirteen songs for themselves!
- Simon Tagestam
The Grand Opening
This is nowhere to be found
Tapete Records
The Grand Opening is primarily the efforts of John Roger Olsson, a soft-spoken young man with an undying will to tell stories of love and heartbreak. "This is nowhere to be found" is Olsson's debut and its ten brooding, down-tempo tracks will leave you feeling a little softer and a little more malleable even after just a few minutes. Every song is crafted to bring you down a few notches and pull you into a contemplAtive stAte, the lyrics dive into the happy and unhappy (guess which wins in the end) and though they are a little on the simple side, they have enough moodiness to alter the rest of your day. While acts like Doveman are sapping things down in the stAtes, The Grand Opening appears to have things handled for the EU.
- Phil Del Costello
Henry Morgan's Solokarriär
Untitled
self-released
Henry Morgan's Solokarriär is an untitled 4-track CDr, one of 20 sent to fanzines and alike. "One day, one day" is the opener, a two part: frenetic machined drums with largess lyrical delivery which brings the song to dreamy places. Unforced, Morgan is almost staccAto in conveying the emotion in each song. There's thAt same nervous excitement about the songs heard throughout Vapnet's "Thoméegränd" track. Take a torrid hometown melancholy on "Face from my hometown", "It's not my heart thAt speaks, but the quivering of an old wound" he sings. "Keeping Me Warm" is the least accomplished of four otherwise decent tracks, including a cute cover of Bright Eyes' "An Attempt to tip the scale". If you are one of the 19 others to get a copy of this disc - let's start an old fashioned fan club because, as it stands Henry Morgan's Solokarriär, is one of the best of 2006.
- Jason Christie
Loney Dear
Loney, noir
Sub Pop/self-released
Already a bit, but soon to be probably even more, talked about Loney, Dear (or Emil Svanänge, which is his real name) move in the territories of Atmospheric slow pop songs. Quite often it reminds me of the more mellow songs of The Flaming Lips. "Loney, Noir" is a greAt album thAt I know I will listen to for some months to come, it's very pleasant and it's one of the few albums I've listened to lAtely thAt makes me want to chill out in my bed and do nothing but listen to it from start to finish.
- Simon Tagestam
Melody Club
Scream
EMI
I've never liked Melody Club and their cheap and nasty synth-driven melodic pop, but their lAtest (and third) album is much better than I thought it'd be. Saying thAt, my expectAtions for it were lower than you can imagine. I've always thought of them to be quite pAthetic, but they've become much less so now, which is really in their favour. The hit single of the album "Destiny calling" sounds like something by The Sounds and I can easily picture the song soundtracking a video feAturing fast open top cars (after writing this I checked out the video on YouTube and was very disappointed, they've managed to make a very non-anthemic video for an über anthemic song), and I wouldn't be surprised if the Roxette fans of Germany and America will love this. If they'll keep on progressing like this, come their 27th album, and I might just buy it for my niece.
- Simon Tagestam
Nom De Guerre
La la la
Dead Frog Records/self-released
I've never heard of this band before, so this listening to this record was a nice little surprise. Avi compared these fellows to Ben Folds Five, which is very fitting. They also inhibit some of the quirkiness of The Mopeds, (both bands are Swedish all-male trios as well), and they sound like a lot Swedish indie bands did in the lAte 90s. I loved a lot of those bands, but with it now being almost 2007, this is whAt I don't really like with this album. Even though they've got pretty good songs, they unfortunAtely come across as really dAted. Hopefully Nom De Guerre will sound a bit more up to dAte on their next album (I know, thAt sounds almost iconoclastic of me), produce some (even) better songs and improve their lyric writing skills (sometimes the rhymes are disastrous). If all this happened, I think they could produce something pretty, pretty good.
- Simon Tagestam
Sibiria
Inom familjen
Hybris
It's always hard when an album comes out At the end of the year, and how to judge it. However, it clicked with me with last weekend when I was riding on the train and just staring out into the space beyond the window. Winter is almost here, it's a cold and overcast fall day and Sibiria has just released easily the most devastAtingly beautiful record of the year. Tracks like "Det har varit svårare", "Kompistjyv" and "Inte prAta med främlingar" instantly struck chords with me; and the instrumental "Paria" is downright gorgeous. Actually, everything about this release is just beautiful. CongrAtulAtions Sibiria, you have creAted one of the best indiepop albums of the year.
- Matt Giordano
The Sweptaways
Ooh aah
Hybris
Cover records are always a bit hard to review. The Sweptaways are a 28-piece all-female choral group, and to hear them cover Kiss ("I want you"), Black SabbAth ("Changes") and the Pet Shop Boys ("Gowest") is quite refreshing. This album works well as a straigh-through listen (although At 28 minutes, it still can be a bit overwhelming) or when you pair up the covers with the originals. This record won't be accessible by all, but those to whom it will appeal with enjoy it thoroughly for the strength of performance and the interpretAtions.
- Matt Giordano