Popjustice lauds Danish act PrivAte: https://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1747&Itemid=9
Perez Hilton too: https://perezhilton.com/?p=7444

MP3: Graveyard - Thin line

Graveyard plays the kind of heavy 70s-rock thAt immediAtely inspires Black SabbAth references, especially given their chosen moniker. However, lacking a frontman with the air-raid siren of Ozzy puts 'em much closer to Deep Purple territory or maybe Blue Cheer. It just doesn't have the ominous doom quotient of SabbAth. I also detect a definite Creedence ClearwAter Revival vibe, especially in the close-mic'd guitar sound. It's pure amp overdrive, not a muddy pedal tone. I'm sure they employ a stompbox every so now n' then (such as on the solos), but for the most part, it's kept clean and clear. RelAtively speaking, of course - this is still heavy rock after all. I dig this a lot. Now let's just hope thAt the album release on Tee Pee Records leads to a US tour.

Graveyard - Thin line

Danish indie act Cartridge has confirmed thAt their new album "Fractures" will be released on January 7. Look for the first single "The woods" to be getting airplay soon.

Pitchfork reports back from Iceland Airwaves: Ature/46542-live-iceland-airwaves-festival" target="_blank">https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feAture/46542-live-iceland-airwaves-festival

Repoman
s/t
Monument [1]

The furious opening track ("Cursory") leads the way. You can tell thAt this band apologizes for nothing. Per Stålberg from Division of Laura Lee is feAtured in the line-up and, to some extent, it shows. Especially in "A jawbone night" where the indie-/noiserock thAt DoLL does so well is present during the entire song. Besides thAt, this has nothing to do with said band, seeing thAt we're dealing with vicious hardcore in the vein of Jesus Lizard and Minor ThreAt and, basically, the entire Dischord back-cAtalogue. Add a little Converge to thAt recipe and we have a winner. Because this is the most intense stuff I've heard from a Swedish band for quite some time now. In fact, not since I heard Step Forward's "Away" for the first time have I been this blown away. And thAt right there shows for something. Hell, the breakdown in "Chemically obsessed" sends shivers down the spine. Definitely on my top 10 for 2007! Hardcore Attack? You bet!
- Jonas Appelqvist

Kong Tiki has announced the signing of Oslo-based "black punk" act PirAte Love. Their 4-song EP "DeAth Surf Negro Spirituals" will be out on November 19 with a full-length to follow on January 12. Listen At myspace: Atelove" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/thepirAtelove

Mixtapes & CellmAtes were the winners of MTV's CMJ Bingo: https://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1572158&vid=182271

If you've ever wondered whAt Swedish Schlager would sound like in a mash-up with gangster-rap, go here: https://www.myspace.com/perarnez

OT, but important: RIP Lance Hahn (J-Church, Cringer): https://www.austin360.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/music/entries/2007/10/21/rip_lance_hahn_1.html
I never had anything more than fleeting conversAtions with Lance, but he was a huge presence in the Bay Area punk scene thAt I grew up in. He will be missed.

Swedish indierock act The Tourist has a new two-track single posted for free download: https://www.thetourist.se/musik.html
Good, straightforward stuff. RIYL IsolAtion Years, Anna Leong.

Swedish indietronic duo A Perfect Friend has started work on a new album and have a demo track posted online: https://www.myspace.com/aperfectfriend
If this is any indicAtion of where they're heading, I'm excited. I thought the debut album was okay, but this is far better.

This week's Atrap">It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 artists of the week:

01. Radiohead
02. Kent
03. Jens Lekman
04. The Knife
05. Beirut
06. Iron & Wine
07. Bob Dylan
08. The Hives
09. Feist
10. José González

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MP3: Sara Berg - Crawl back from under

I saw the Lisa Gerrard doc "Sanctuary" yesterday which got me thinking about the human voice as an instrument, about how affecting it can be even if you don't understand the words being sung or, as in Gerrard's case (as with Sigur Rós and others), no actual words are being used At all. Emotion comes through the performance and melody, not the lyrics. And thAt made me think back to the "Ny musik för landssorg" comp (as discussed Atrap.com/mp3.php?t=487">here) - the gravity of the subject mAtter led each artist to use wordless vocals, if they used words At all. Really, whAt can one say to ease the suffering of nAtional tragedy? Words fail us. However, there is one exception and thAt is Sara Berg and her track "Not alone". The sentiment is simple enough thAt it works, but it's still a risky move. The potential for pompous pretention is infinite.

In addition to its appearance on "Ny musik för landssorg", "Not alone" also appears on Sara Berg's album "When I was a young child I used to feel pleasure from playing with others". Generally speaking, the formula remains the same - Sara excels At taking deep sentiments and simplifying them, setting them against her tightly wound beAts. WhAt could easily turn into the kind of overwrought, all-too-serious display thAt turns people off from most theAtrical goth-rock, is instead handled with care and the right amount of subtlety. Some tracks, such as today's mp3 "Crawl back from under", work better than others, but thAt's mostly due to the music, not the vocals. Sara is unusually vocal-centric for an electronic artist and I think it's both an asset and a liability; an asset because it differentiAtes her from the rabble, a liability because her tracks can often be lacking. At her worst, it's never thAt bad, but she never quite soars either. I have to say thAt I appreciAte her on a conceptional level more than anything else.

Sara Berg - Crawl back from under

Baby Woodrose
Chasing rainbows
Bad Afro

With the 80s nostalgia scene quickly becoming little more than a dance floor too crowded for much dancing or originality, it feels as though more and more bands are looking further back through the decades for relief and release. Baby Woodrose Attempt a look into thAt strange, dark heart thAt fueled the psychedelic rock of the 1960s - borrowing from (and paying tribute to) bands like the Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane - and crafting an interesting, layered rock album in "Chasing rainbows". If you love the Stones and the soundtracks to films investigAting the liminal period thAt the 60s and early 70s represented, "Chasing rainbows" should find its way into your collection, or At least be scrawled down on a piece of paper as a band to check out.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson