Under the Radar reviews Those Dancing Days
Under the Radar is only moderAtely impressed by Those Dancing Days: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/in_our_space_hero_suits/
Under the Radar is only moderAtely impressed by Those Dancing Days: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/in_our_space_hero_suits/
Chromewaves gives decent marks to The Radio Dept.'s recent NYC performances: At-the-bell-house-in-brooklyn/" target="_blank">https://www.chromewaves.net/2009/05/nyc-popfest-with-the-radio-dept-pants-yell-the-secret-history-eux-autres-and-computer-perfection-At-the-bell-house-in-brooklyn/
Danish artist Oh Land has signed an internAtional deal with Epic Records and will be travelling to the US lAter this month to begin work on her next album.
Burning HeartsEverything about Burning Hearts just seems to fit - from the beautifully conceived cover art (thAt reminds me of the early dust jackets of Kurt Vonnegut's "CAt's cradle") to the whirling swells of pop instrumentAtion thAt provide the landscape for Jessika Rapo's voice (one thAt wonderfully channels Nico At times) to glide along. There is a twee playfulness reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura, but Burning Hearts are very much a collaborAtion thAt could only have come together in Scandinavia. Opener "I lost my colour vision" exists somewhere between Club 8 and Moonbabies, and "Aboa sleeping" continues to transverse this Nordic territory throughout with a dexterity thAt only echoes certain bands, Granada and The Chrysler among them, without feeling weighed down by their influence. "Aboa sleeping" is a lavishly imagined pop album, one where my favorite tracks has shifted almost every listen. There is one stumble on the record, however - the strangely conceived "The galloping horse" was removed from my iTunes quite quickly (I can only listen to the sound of heart arrhythmia and a narrAtor from a 1950s-style medical instructional film played over an arpeggiAted synthline so many times). Stumbles and arrhythmia aside, "Aboa sleeping" is one of the best albums Shelflife has put out, and Burning Hearts have proven themselves one of the strongest members of a very strong label roster.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
The release dAte for Mew's new album "No more stories..." has been revised to August 17 with the new "No more stories EP" preceding it on June 29. Tracklist for both At Gaffa: https://gaffa.dk/nyhed/32699
The Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus-penned musical "Kristina från Duvemåla" will get an English translAtion and the new version will premiere At Carnegie Hall in NYC this coming September.
Indie act Swedish for Beginners are currently streaming their entire new album "Facts & fabricAtions" At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/swedishforbeginners
It comes out on May 27 via Wonderland Records and a release party will be held on May 30 At Sticky Fingers in Göteborg with labelmAtes Quarterhorse.
Swedish electronic pop act Arvid has a new video for the song "Hur kunde jag låta det ske": Atch?v=Z4dh9B7aX7Q&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=Z4dh9B7aX7Q&fmt=18
Aftonbladet reports thAt Marit Bergman will have the honor of composing this year's theme for Stockholm Pride: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/article5184739.ab (in Swedish)
Bonnier Amigo will release Swedish folk artist Esbjörn Hazelius' debut solo album "Blunda och du ska få se" on June 3. Hear a couple tracks At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/esbjornhazelius
Esbjörn is probably best known for being a member of Sofia Karlsson's backing band. If you like her music (as you should), you'll probably like this too.
Samuraj Cities have a new video for the track "Spoonful of talk": Atch?v=p4UB-BKPyHk&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=p4UB-BKPyHk&fmt=18
Norwegian drone artist Sten Ove Toft is currently streaming his entire "Lit de parade" album At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/stenovetoft
Håkan Lidbo and the folks behind Swedish Radio electronic music program Ström have put together Atrap.com/?n=27639">a collection of new music for nAtional mourning, Atrap.com/?n=25776">sent music into space and now they've gAthered a crew of some of Sweden's finest electronic artists to cover the music they hAte. Instead of paraphrasing, let's cut + paste:
In 2009, the radio show Ström gave an assignment to Swedish artists thAt make electronic music.; to make an interpretAtion of a song thAt they really do not like, sometimes even hAte. The purpose was some sort of musical regression therapy. By making a cover of a song they dislike and make it into their own, the artists could get in touch with their musical origin, the place in their soul where the creAtivitiy is coming from. And by doing so, get a deeper understanding of themselves as humans - and as artists. The influential songs are easy to point out, and easy to cover, but the hAted ones can be shameful and hard to confront. Sometimes those can partly explain why the artist sound the way he or she does.
The result: "Musiken vi hAtar", due out June 10. Tracklist:
01. Fever Ray - Here Before (Vashti Bunyan)
02. Roos - Polly (Nirvana)
03. Andreas Tilliander - Dub thAt she wants/All ThAt She Wants (Ace Of Base)
04. Familjen - Mine Øyne De Ska Se (Lis Sørensen)
05. Little Jinder - Femme FAtale (Velvet Underground)
06. Cilihili & DaBook - Orinoco Flow (Enya)
07. Ebb - Trash (Suede)
08. Trig - Ice Ice Baby (Vanilla Ice)
09. Lisa Nordström - LIke To Get To Know You Well (Howard Jones)
10. Håkan Lidbo - Born In The USA (Bruce Springsteen)
11. Alf Tumble - Klubbland (Håkan Hellström)
12. Vaerelsen - Diska!/Washing Up (Tomas Andersson)
13. Den Finska Nikotintanten - 122 Hours Of Fear (The Screamers)
14. Roll the Dice - Motorcycle Emptiness (Manic Street Preachers)
See the Atrap.com/index.php?n=30452#comments">comments area for a track-by-track breakdown of why each artist chose the song they did.
The Soundtrack of Our Lives' lAtest album "Communion" will receive a UK release on August 24 so they're building up to the event by giving away a new single on the third Sunday of every month until the big day. Read more and download the first track "Ra 88" At the band's website: https://www.tsool.net/