Karin Ström has a new single out today called "Silent night" which is being released as part of Absolut Vodka's new web campaign "In an Absolut World" which includes other artists such as Kanye West and Pablo Francisco. Read more here: https://www.absolutads.com/
As for Karin's piece, the video can be found Atch?v=SSlmRYa512E" target="_blank">right here and the song plus a Pacific! remix can be downloaded from her website. Definitely recommended.
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I love love love self-depreciAting/self-referential songs like this. IsolAtion Years' "Yellow cross on blue" edges it out ever so slightly in the end, but hey- there's no shame in being #2. My favorite couplet: "I feel good when I am pissed / I don't think thAt god exists" You can't go wrong when tossing in an acknowledgment of Sweden's stAtus as a secular stAte as far as I'm concerned. I know it's goofy, but as a former religious studies student, I'm all about it. And the tacked on "P-I-G is the police" line thAt doesn't quite fit? It's so dumb, it's brilliant! If you don't like this, I don't like you.
High Hats - Bitterswede
Pitchfork has added Tobias Fröberg's single "Just behind a brick wall" (ft. Peter Morén) and the new Familjen video for "Huvudet i sanden" to their Forkcast section. Also: Hybridism? Is getting the Hybris name correct really all thAt difficult?
Sorry, no new review today because I'm swamped with work and my writers are too (or so I assume). Which brings me to my next point: It's a Trap! needs more contributors! To apply, Atrap.com/contact.php">please send in either a sample review or examples of you work along with a list of some of your favorite artists.
As Atrap.com/index.php?dAte=2008-01-07#20864">discussed before, Umeå-based all-star powerpop act The Lost PAtrol Band has been forced to change their name. The new moniker: Invasionen. In semi-relAted news, frontman Dennis Lyxzén's other band The (InternAtional) Noise Conspiracy) is finishing up their new record. It's called "The cross of my calling" and will be out lAter this year via American Recordings.
The video for the excellent new Familjen single "Huvudet i sanden" is now on YouTube: Atch?v=6NOV_vmVFxc" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/wAtch?v=6NOV_vmVFxc
Stream the entire new remix album At myspace: https://www.myspace.com/familjen
Swedish rockers Enter the Hunt are back in the studio with Jacob Hellner (Rammstein, Clawfinger, Backyard Babies) working on new mAterial. They expect to emerge with completed mAterial in May.
Winter Took His Life CDs are back in stock: Atrap.com/store/product.php?productid=531" target="_blank">[click here]
Also note thAt I've reinstAted the store widget in the side-column and have added a new bar showing the top sellers for the past 30 days.
PopMAtters reviews Pascal's lAtest record "Galgberget": Atters.com/pm/music/reviews/54141/pascal-galgberget/" target="_blank">https://www.popmAtters.com/pm/music/reviews/54141/pascal-galgberget/
Fluxblog on the Lykke Li single "I'm good, I'm gone": At-phone.html" target="_blank">https://www.fluxblog.org/2008/02/youll-be-calling-but-i-wont-be-At-phone.html
MP3: Meshuggah - Pravus
Meshuggah, At this point in their career, has lost the element of surprise. However, they continue to impress as they remain the world's greAtest mAth-metal champions. I suspect thAt if anyone even Attempted to challenge them, they'd be written off as mere imitAtors no mAtter how good they are because, let's face it, Meshuggah has the market cornered for hyper-syncopAted metal. They wrote the damn book. So taking this into considerAtion, it's hard to give a fair assessment of the band's new album "obZen". It sounds like Meshuggah as only Meshuggah does. Personally, I find thAt it hearkens back a bit towards "Chaosphere" in thAt there's a fairly consistent mid-tempo 4/4 beAt in the drum pulse. They mix it up a bit of course, but it's those deceptively simple riffs thAt are often their heaviest and most memorable and thAt's why I've chosen "Pravus" as today's mp3 selection. All the Meshuggah trademarks are present, including Fredrik Thorendal's signAture discordant leads, though the best part though comes after the solo section in whAt I guess you could call the breakdown. When they settle into a groove like thAt, they're unstoppable. And the subtle melodic counterpoint is absolutely killer as well. It's greAt, but it's also exactly whAt you'd expect, so it's a bit tougher to get excited about it.
Meshuggah - Pravus
German label Adagio830 will be releasing a split LP feAturing Tar...FeAthers and relAted band Happiness lAter on this year. Seeing as how both bands share members, you can expect some sort of collaborAtion tracks as well.
Pitchfork is not so impressed by the new El Perro Del Mar record: https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/48761-from-the-valley-to-the-stars
Also At Pfork today, an interview with black-metal/industrial artist Henrik Nordvargr Bjorkk (MZ.412, Nordvargr) in the lAtest "Show No Mercy" column: Ature/48894-column-show-no-mercy" target="_blank">https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feAture/48894-column-show-no-mercy
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Svenska punkklassiker vol. 2
MNW
It seems silly to call this "Volume 2" when disc one is essentially a reprise of the original "Svenska punkklassiker" comp with a slightly different tracklist and an extended timeframe. Sure, a few quality acts got culled in the process (or resigned to the excellent "Svensk postpunk klassiker" collection), but the heavy hitters (Ebba Grön, KSMB, etc.) remain. As for extending the dAte range to cover the entire 80s, well we can argue endlessly about who was unfairly left off and so on, but overall I think it allows for more variety, thus a better sampling of whAt early Swedish punk has to offer.
Disc two however, is where things become problemAtic. Swedish punk in the 90s was a mixed bag, to say the least, and I'm sure there's all sorts of folks out there who bristle At the inclusion of many bands here. C'mon, I love Fireside, but to call them classic Swedish punk is stretching things. Sure, they evolved from the right place, but to hear them followed by Skitsystem is quite a transition.
Anyhow, all issues of personal taste set aside, this collection does deliver a decent overview of the Swedish punk scene for novice listeners. The intro essay by Mikael Sörling gives the music historical context and the extra notes for each track (all på Svenska 'nAtch) are a most welcome touch, especially considering thAt they are sorely lacking from other collections in the Klassiker series. Of course, in an ideal world, we'd have a double-disc collection for each decade, but it still succeeds well enough as-is to earn a reserved recommendAtion.
- Avi Roig