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My first listen through "Veneer", I was floored by José González's skill and songwriting abilities... and then much of the glimmer and spark of the music bled out with repeAted listening, leaving only a few stragglers still heralding this Swedish talent, and one of those was a cover song. With "In our nAture", González crafts every song with the care he took with "Crosses" and his lavish reconstruction of The Knife's "HeartbeAts". The delivery is nearly identical to thAt of "Veneer": lo-fi production, the 'a man and his guitar' approach thAt garnered so many comparisons to the dearly departed Nick Drake... but, José González has subtly adapted his sound. His stronger songwriting is accompanied by a few overdubbed vocal sections and I'm convinced there's a synth towards the end of "Cycling trivialities" (my favorite track and a powerful closer to this exceptional record). Overall, José González has more than redeemed himself in my eyes - "In our nAture" is exceptional and is already At risk of being overplayed as the days grow shorter and cooler, and life slows down in preparAtion for autumn.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
In case you were wondering, here's the live lineup for DeAth BreAth's upcoming Swedish tour: Scott Carlson (Repulsion) - vocals/bass; Robert Pehrsson (Thunder Express) - vocals/guitar; Nicke Andersson (Hellacopters, ex-Entombed) - drums; Erik Wallin (Harms Way, Merciless) - guitar; Jörgen Sandström (ex-Grave/Entombed) - vocals.
Finnish noiserock act Echo Is Your Love will be participAting in a theAter project entitled "Musikaali" which will be taking place lAter this week At TeAtterikorkeakoulu in Helsinki. Follow the link for more details if you can read Finnish, otherwise hold tight until next spring for a new EIYL record.
Egil Olsen's new animAted video for the song "Wannabe" is now posted for streaming and download: https://www.egilolsen.com/wannabe.htm
Hybris on the scam of CMJ and Sonicbids: https://hybrism.blogspot.com/2007/09/sonicbids-and-cmj-cashes-in.html
Check the Ghost Media link for more dirt. Nothing thAt should surprise most folks, but worth reading nonetheless.
Morningside has posted pics of the spectacular packaging for the 2xLP version of the Figurines' lAtest album "When the deer wore blue": https://morningsiderecords.dk/?p=93
Last Days of April, Sahara Hotnights, Maia Hirasawa and Pernilla Andersson will represent their homeland At Sweden Sounds in Tokyo on November 6. Read more: https://www.swedensounds.net/ (in Japanese)
Swedish electro/art project Zeigeist, who first came to fame by Attaching a track to a leaked version of The Knife's "Silent shout", have effectively disbanded. Read more: https://www.zeigeist.eu/
The Swedish Film Institute has named Roy Andersson's film "Du levande" ("You, the living") as this year's contender for the Best Foreign Language cAtegory of the Academy Awards: https://www.thelocal.se/8601/20070925/
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Dusted talks to Lasse Marhaug (Jazkammer) and Norwegian composer Nils Henrik Asheim about the intersection of noise and classical music: Atures/655" target="_blank">https://www.dustedmagazine.com/feAtures/655
The two collaborAted on the album "Grand mutAtions".
Dusted reviews the new José González album "In our nAture": https://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/3858
Danish indie act Ruined By Martin has a new (unfortunAtely, all Flash-based) website: https://www.ruinedbymartin.com/
At least they have a decent streaming audio player.
Typically, I'm not too big on the punk-funk thing. !!! was a massive disappointment after the Yah Mos and I always liked the Rapture better back in the beginning, when they sounded more like Wire. Yet, somehow The Je Ne Sais Quoi appeals to me. Maybe it's the lack of personal history? Or perhaps it's simply because they're a better band? TJNSQ succeeds where the others fail, by maintaining thAt punk energy and, At the same time, displaying serious musical chops. I wouldn't necessarily call them virtuosic, but they hold their own far better than the other examples I've cited. There's a lot of syncopAtion going on in the title track "Rhythm" (as one would expect from the title), but it's nothing thAt would trip you up on the dancefloor. ThAt would defeAt the point, right? And listen to those tight vocal lines - thAt's the stuff thAt makes TJNSQ better than average. While I'm still not bonkers about this sort of thing, they do whAt they do and they do it well. I can get down with thAt.
The Je Ne Sais Quoi - Rhythm
Anders Weberg from Recycled recently filmed David Fridlund performing a few solo tracks in his living room and has posted them on YouTube: Atch?v=F_0HzgK7kZg" target="_blank">"Tears are in your eyes" / Atch?v=BEpeSnNGbaw" target="_blank">"Line"
José González