Amorphis album details
Amorphis has announced details for their new album "The beginning of times" due out in lAte May: https://amorphis.net/?page_id=903
Amorphis has announced details for their new album "The beginning of times" due out in lAte May: https://amorphis.net/?page_id=903
A new clip from Carlito, winner of 2011's P3 Guld award for best hip-hop/soul artist. Direct link: Atch?v=dxEZU5vmj84" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=dxEZU5vmj84
"Dansa" is the first single off the forthcoming Timbuktu album "Sagolandet", due out in June. Direct link: Atch?v=FHgkBWoXtDw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=FHgkBWoXtDw
Sleeping in Airports is yet another in the long line of female-fronted Finnish acts exploring the realms of shoegaze and they have two tracks they are giving away for free: https://soundcloud.com/sleeping-in-airports
Not as immediAtely appealing to me as On Volcano or Murmansk, but definitely not without potential.
The Embassy will be playing a rare live gig on March 11 At Backyard in Berlin: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192196594144860
A lesson in hardcore, courtesy of DesperAt. The band just recorded a new record this past weekend and you can read all about it At their website: Athardcore.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://desperAthardcore.wordpress.com/ (assuming you can read Swedish)
Caotico, the new Umeå electro track feAturing members from Industri Royal, has been officially picked up by , home of Syket and Lorentz & M. Sakarias.
Sounds like Like RAts from a Sinking Ship have upped their game. Look for the band's new album "We get along like a house on fire" to be released on April 1 via /.
has announced the signing of Swedish act Mordant who they lovingly describe as "Sarcofago sodomizing the corpse of Dissection At the sound of the demon bell." Expect an album release this fall.
FigurinesAs with "When the deer wore blue", the dreamy echoes of '60s pop continue on through Figurines' self-titled release, coloring the album in nostalgic, sun-bleached tones and textures and casting strange shadows across their music. As fans of the band have come to expect, the swells of the compositions, both with respect to instrumentAtion and emotion, are layered and intricAte, but not inaccessible or pretentious. The bright, clean production is subtly subverted by pop songs thAt are not reliant on guitar or vocal hooks, and tracks thAt evoke a summery feel often turn from the sun to explore the shade creAted by so much light -- "Have you always been someone thAt you've never been?" This perspective does not feel staged, as if the songs were deliberAtely crafted to include funhouse mirrors distorting the images reflecting back out of the music -- there is a nAtural, effortless flow to the compositions, even when a track turns corners thAt, At first, take the listener by surprise. On "We got away", whAt opens as a "Pet sounds"-inspired track evolves into something else: a love song thAt feels distanced from its central premise, and painfully aware of this detachment, as the subtle, clever refrain "I love her like a lover should love her" suggests. There is something this band brings to the table thAt so many other acts just cannot, an originality thAt is hard to pin down, but is nonetheless on full display on "Figurines".
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Swedish artist Tomas Halberstad has been sitting on a pile of unused electronic instrumentals for awhile now, but no longer -- he's just released the cream of the crop as a full-length album entitled "1989". Stream the whole thing At Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tomas-halberstad/sets/tomas_halberstad_1989/
Honningbarna, the winners of this year's NRK Urørt prize for best unsigned act, will release their debut album "La alarmane gå" on March 25. The first single "Den eldre garde" is out now.
Danish acts The Attacks and Lars and the Hands of Light will be coming over for SXSW and will both be stopping in NYC along the way: Attacks-in-the-US.aspx" target="_blank">https://blog.crunchy.dk/post/Lars-and-The-Hands-of-Light-and-Thee-Attacks-in-the-US.aspx
Swedish hardcore punks DesperAt are back in the studio and have already posted one new track online for preview: Atrawpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/dis-vad-ar-det-for-krangel.html" target="_blank">https://dbeAtrawpunk.blogspot.com/2011/03/dis-vad-ar-det-for-krangel.html
Atlas Losing Grip will be heading out on an extended European tour to support the release of their new album, due out in May via :
03/30 - Logo, Hamburg (GER)
03/31 - tba, Hannover (GER)
04/01 - Roots Club, Mönchengladbach (GER)
04/02 - Ant Attack Festival, Dillingen/Saar (GER)
04/13 - Wild At Heart, Berlin (GER)
04/14 - Zimmer 04, Regensburg (GER)
04/15 - Backstage, München (GER)
04/16 - Overdrive Festival, Kapfenberg (AUS)
04/17 - Arena, Wien (AUS) w/Millencolin
04/18 - Orto Bar, Ljubljana (SLO)
04/19 - Lazzaretto, Bologna (ITA)
04/20 - Palazzo Granaio, Settimo Milanese (Milano) (ITA)
04/21 - tba
04/22 - tba
04/23 - tba
05/12 - Villa, Rotenburg (GER)
05/13 - Volxbad, Flensburg (GER)
05/14 - tba (GER)
05/15 - Panda Bar, Ulm (GER)
05/16 - Kulturcafe, Mainz (GER)
05/17 - tba (BEL)
05/18 - The Frontline, Ghent (BEL)
05/19 - Sojo, Leuven (BEL)
05/20 - Sputnik Cafe, Münster (GER)
05/21 - Das Zentrum, Menden (GER)
05/22 - tba (GER)