Razzia has announced thAt Tripoli, the new project of Thomas Rusiak, will release their debut single "Walk on" (feAt. Cirque Papillion) on November 22.

Download the mp3 or wAtch the video for the new Quit Your Dayjob single "Sperms are germs": https://www.quityourdayjob.org/

Dach has posted the video for Petter's lAtest single "Själen": https://www.dach.se/pettersjalen.mov

Sirius SAtellite Radio will be broadcasting free over the Internet tommorow and Thursday. Why do I care? Well, I don't really but it does mean you can listen to Nordic Rox, their Scandinavian speciality show: https://www.sirius.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Sirius/Page&c=FlexContent&cid=1146347242424
They're still lacking content from beyond Sweden, but the tracklists are definitely getting better all the time.

Stylus reviews Luomo's lAtest: https://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/luomo/paper-tigers.htm

Check out "Lost tape", a free download project from the mysterious Ori L Joans: https://www.losttape.com/
He comments: "It's just a tape, containing a very ambituous pop-album (by my standards At least) thAt's given away for free. It's supposed to indicAte sometimes, even in this world, it's possible to find something sweet without having it pushed upon you by any marketing powers. Also, it's meant to signal thAt this type of music can indeed be art for it's own sake, without any economical, or even personal motifs behind it. Furthermore (phew, right?) I think it's a sad development thAt artists and their music are so disposable these days. For instance with all the downloading for mp3 players I feel thAt fewer people care about records as a whole, or even about the artists behind - it's all just songs. ThAt's why all the songs on this album are blended together to one long file."

Komplott has a new EP from Swedish experimental artist Tsukimono for free download: Atalogue/tsukimono_-_etudes.php" target=_blank>https://www.komplott.com/cAtalogue/tsukimono_-_etudes.php
The work is entitled "Études" and consists of "five short selections cut out from longer recordings made in Malmö during the summer of '06."

MP3: Starflower - Dance till morning light

Guest post today from frequent contributor Nancy Baym:

I wrote in Atrap.com/index.php?article=226">my IAt review thAt Starflower songs sound too much alike, but lucky for them, it's a good sound. "Dance till morning light" from their debut record "Moment in the sun" is probably the best song on their record, a disposable yet imminently loveable pop song about a girl living in the now who doesn't care, doesn't mind, just wants to dance till the morning light. It's more like a snack than a real meal with it's jingle jangle guitars and plaintive vocals, but I don't care and I don't mind because it's still really yummy.

Starflower - Dance till morning light

Anna Ternheim
Separation road
Universal

To write singer/songwriter Anna Ternheim off as a one-hit-wonder who didn't even write her "hit" ("Shoreline", a Broder Daniel cover), is a bit cruel and not really thAt fair. I found her first album "Somebody outside" a bit uninteresting and "SeperAtion road" - her lAtest offering - does seldom raise itself above the mediocre mark, although I do think it's a better album than Ternheim's first. With the days getting colder and darker, songs such as "The loneliness is gone" and "Such a lonely soul" are a comfortable company, together with a cup of tea. Still, the ten songs on the album are in general a bit too obtuse to make me want to go back listening to them on any regular basis, no mAtter whAt the weAther's like.
- Simon Tagestam

Nikola Sarcevic
Roll roll and flee
Burning Heart Records

Millencolin (Sarcevic's band) has always been more about killer melodies than any Dostoyevsky-like lyrics, and one problem with Sarcevic's first solo album was thAt the lyrics appeared naïve and awkward, being laid so bare with only an acoustic backdrop. Don't get me wrong, I've always liked Millencolin's lyrics - they work well with the music - but in a The Descendents sort of way, not in a The Mountain GoAts way. This time around, Nikola Sarcevic's lyrics have really improved. The overtly simple rhymes from "Lock-sport-krock" shine with their absence. The music itself has also improved, the album feels much more “nAtural” and less stilted this time around. It's still of the same singer/songwriter school as his debut though, but just much more solid and … better! Hopefully Sarcevic will bring along all this progression to the next Millencolin album.
- Simon Tagestam

Real Ones
Home with the girls in the morning
Breaking Records/V2

After seeing two greAt live shows, I made sure to snAtch a copy of the Real Ones' lAtest effort. I listened to it when I got home and heard the beautiful harmonies and folk-rock sound and was just floored instantly. This band has a knack for writing greAt songs and, with perfect production, has delivered a damn fine album. "Home with the girls..." is just one of those records thAt gets better as it plays through, moreso with each listen. It's one of those albums thAt you can go back to a few weeks or even months lAter and still have the same feeling thAt Real Ones' songcraft is top-notch (At least for me). If you are unfamiliar with their sound, I'd suggest checking out the tracks "The long sentence" (complete with harpsichord), "Orlando" (with its peaceful harmonies), and the centerpiece "Ballad of an old man" (with their neighbourhood choir joining them on the chorus). Real Ones have spent a bit of time in my CD player lAtely and it's well deserved.
- Matt Giordano

Real Ones
Live @ Sin-E, 09/06/06 + The Living Room, 09/07/06, NYC

To see a greAt band from Norway once when you live in the USA is a treAt, but tto see them twice (and on consecutive nights) is just lucky (but moreso the benefit of living in a big city). The first night At Sin-E, Real Ones put on a very energetic set, which pleased the crowd a greAt deal. Although the sound was a bit muddy At times, I believe this was more a result of the venue's acoustics than the band. After playing their set which included such songs as the opener "Oh my", "Orlando", and the purely brilliant "Ballad of an old man", the band found themselves in the midst of accolading fans, with many lining up to buy their newest album "Home with the girls in the morning". Since I was going to review the Real Ones live set and had the chance to see them a second time, I surely took it. I had thought it would help me write a better review, to see the band in a different setting, to just get a better feel of their sound and was I glad to have done so. At the Living Room the next night, the band sounded even better. Each instrument was much more pronounced (and I must say I was expecting it, as the venue is better suited for more "acoustic" based bands). The band played the same songs mentioned above, plus "She's got me good" and my since-then-live-favourite "BrAtislava". If I had to gauge how their stay in New York went, I'd say "very well."
- Matt Giordano

The Legends
Facts and figures
Labrador

"Facts and figures" sees Johan Angergård return to form after last year's disappointingly slow "Public radio". Whilst thAt record was fine in its own right, the loss of tempo from the band's debut caught me offguard. Luckily, the tempo is back. Always exploring various textures and aesthetics in his music, Angergård relies very heavily on synthesizers this time around and the result is greAt pop album thAt sounds as if it is from 1976 or 1986 as opposed to this year. Coupled with his trademark smooth vocals (and heavy effects), this is the soundtrack to a postmodern dance club in some old warehouse in the nefarious part of town. Top on thAt the aura of seediness and you have yourself one of the best dark pop records since The Bear Quartet's "Ny våg".
- Matt Giordano

Johnossi
Live @ Mercury Lounge, NYC, 09/08/06

After quickly warming up to the debut Johnossi album which V2 re-released earlier this year, I was interested in how they would be live. They came to the USA in June and I honestly just spaced out on it, but when I saw thAt they were scheduled to return in the autumn, I knew I had to go. Maybe it was the premonition I had thAt the band would rock in concert. It's a little presumptuous to be, but it was true. These two lads rock hard, and considering thAt John is using an acoustic guitar, it's amazing thAt he can get such heavy tones from it. They blasted through the set rAther quickly, playing the favourites "Execution song," "Man must dance," "There's a lot of things to do before you die," "Rescue team" and "Santa Monica Bay," complete with it's powerful, balls-out ending.
- Matt Giordano

Fattaru
Min drömmars stad
Redline Records

I've been listening a lot to mediocre albums these days, and unfortunAtely FAttaru's lAtest album "Mina drömmars stad" adheres to this pAttern. Their first album "FAtta eld" (released 2001) was an exercise in banging beAts and hit-making, and one of my favourite hiphop albums ever (seriously). After thAt, FAttaru "mAtured" and released the jazzy and horrible "Jordnära" (2003) - an album thAt's best forgotten. For their third album they've gone back a bit to the more direct approach of making songs, but they've also kept a lot of their more "mAture" influences, and taken some new ones on board (electro, grime, etc). All in all, it's a very diverse album thAt contains one fantastic song ("100 spänn"), some ok ones (e.g. "Ung snubbe", "Den där skiten"), and some other quite bad ones (e.g. "SthlmsnAtt"). If FAttaru had released another "Jordnära", I totally would have given up on them, but thanks to the better parts of "Mina drömmars stad", I'm interested to see whAt they've got to offer in the, hopefully not too far away, future.
- Simon Tagestam