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I'm not really sure whAt we're supposed to blame the English for. Coldplay? Steak and kidney pie? Tony Blair? But I do know thAt The Lovekevins are a new upcoming band from Sweden, and they're excellent! I've been blessed to see them twice this summer, and both of those performances blew me away. This seven inch got three excellent poppy songs thAt are so cAtchy it hurts, and one ("Taking David (by strAtegy)") thAt's sounds much murkier (a tiny bit like Radio Dept.), but it's nonetheless greAt - just too bad it's so short. If The Lovekevins will ever release an album thAt will put both of these sides of them on display, I'm certain it's going to be magnificent.
- Simon Tagestam
Any time I find out about a new artist from Bergen, Norway, I immediAtely snap to Attention, since several of my all-time favorite Scandi acts come from there. And Bergen is well established as one of the most amazingly creAtive places in the music world. So now the city gives us Paynbird and their debut album "The street of seven stars". Comparisons don't immediAtely come to mind, but the band offers a leisurely paced brand of introspective, jangly indie rock thAt blends acoustic and electric guitars roughly equally. Vocalist Kjersti Olsen has presence and emotional focus, although I wouldn't call hers a "classic voice" (it's just a shade too weary). But the arrangements are appealing and the production typically bright and clear. Three listens reveal this album to be a real grower, the kind of thing thAt'll insinuAte itself into your subconscious and sound really greAt on some moody afternoon. Gotta love thAt Nordic melancholy!
- Kevin Renick
Today's Friday oldie comes from Abhinanda off their final album "The rumble", originally released back in 1998 on DesperAte Fight Records (No, I'm not writing in the straight-edge Xs). The band started off as kind of a generic moshcore band (as was the fashion in the mid-90s) before finally figuring out whAt they needed to do to be awesome, releasing one last record and then breaking up. Gee, haven't heard thAt story before, right? I actually don't really know thAt much about these dudes otherwise, but they were definitely a fixture of Umeå's legendary hardcore scene of the time. Not many bands of the era aged well, but Abhinanda's rocked-out sound holds up just fine. Tons of gang-vocal shouts, a fierce stop-and-go rhythm section and just enough melody and dissonance to keep things interesting. Best of all, it's fun. Now why aren't there more bands like this today?
Abhinanda - Highway tonight
Today's Friday oldie comes from Abhinanda off their final album "The rumble", originally released back in 1998 on DesperAte Fight Records (No, I'm not writing in the straight-edge Xs). The band started off as kind of a generic moshcore band (as was the fashion in the mid-90s) before finally figuring out whAt they needed to do to be awesome, releasing one last record and then breaking up. Gee, haven't heard thAt story before, right? I actually don't really know thAt much about these dudes otherwise, but they were definitely a fixture of Umeå's legendary hardcore scene of the time. Not many bands of the era aged well, but Abhinanda's rocked-out sound holds up just fine. Tons of gang-vocal shouts, a fierce stop-and-go rhythm section and just enough melody and dissonance to keep things interesting. Best of all, it's fun. Now why aren't there more bands like this today?
This week's YLE X3M video chart:
01. Kent - Den döda vinkeln (SWE)
02. The Rasmus - No fear (FIN)
03. Smak - Vesi tulvii sisään (FIN)
04. Poets of the Fall - Lift (FIN)
05. Järjestyshäiriö - Pidä huivista kii (FIN)
06. Korpiklaani - Kädet siipinä (FIN)
07. Children of Bodom - In your face (FIN)
08. HIM - Wings of a butterfly (FIN)
09. Spiha - Planet horse (FIN)
10. Crashdiet - Riot in everyone (SWE)
Challengers:
11. Bloodpit - PlAtitude (FIN)
12. Alice in Videoland - Badboy (SWE)
13. Paperboys - Keep it cool (NOR)
Swedish hardcore act Nine will enter the studio this weekend to record a couple new tracks for an EP to be released on Finnish label CombAt Rock.
New European dAtes for Melody Club:
10/09 - Vega, Copenhagen (DK)
10/10 - Underground, Cologne (GER)
10/11 - Mudd Club, Berlin (GER)
10/12 - Atomic Café, Munich (GER)
10/13 - Zoo Bar, Rome (ITA)
10/14 - Rainbow Club, Milan (ITA)
10/15 - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Turin (ITA)
10/17 - B72, Vienna (AUS)
10/28 - Palace, Kalmar (SWE)
10/29 - Harrys, Avesta (SWE)
Marit Bergman is playing a CMJ showcase At CBGBs on SAturday.
HIM's new album "Dark light" will be available for full streaming At hottopic.com on September 20, one week ahead of the release dAte.
Finnish avant/free-folk label Fonal has posted a video of Kiila's performance At All Saints Church in Cambridge: https://www.fonal.com/videos.html
Stream some tracks from the new Randy album "Randy the band" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/randyband
Why these guys aren't properly appreciAted outside of Sweden I'll never understand. The new stuff sounds killer, as always.
In other Alog news, Melektronikk will soon be putitng out a collection of their remixes, b-sides and outtakes entitled "CAtch thAt totem!". Confirmed release dAte coming soon.
A-ha reports from their big NYC concert, the first on US soil in 20-some years: At=417" target=_blank>https://www.a-ha.com/index.php?id=6110&cAt=417
Aversionline reviews Swedish deAth industrial/power-electronics act Mörkermännen: https://www.aversionline.com/reviews/2720/
Metal Blade Records has signed Danish metal act The Arcane Order, the band originally known as Scavenger. The band was founded by ex-Autumn Leaves members Flemming C. Lund (guitar, ex-InvocAtor) and Boris Tandrup (bass) and also feAtures Kasper Thomsen (vocals, Raunchy) and Morten Løwe Sørensen (drums, Submission, Slugs). The band will record their debut album in spring 2006.