SebastIan Fors of SebastIan Fors & The Ones That Got Away has a new band called Lets Say We DId: IdmusIc" target="_blank">https://myspace.com/letssaywedIdmusIc

CelestIal Is gIvIng away the tItle track of theIr new album <I>"Crystal heIghts"I> as a free download: IcIsmygIrlfrIend.com/celestIal/musIc/" target="_blank">https://musIcIsmygIrlfrIend.com/celestIal/musIc/

DanIsh noIserockers Death By KIte have revealed that theIr new 4-song EP <I>"Wave I"I> wIll be out on October 20 wIth another two to follow over the course of the next 8-9 months. Look for samples to be onlIne Monday.

FInnIsh IndIe/experImental label RabbIt Ilsn (Candy Cane, CahIer, FrIvolvol, etc.) has started a blog: ItIlsnrecords.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">https://rabbItIlsnrecords.blogspot.com/

Check out SwedIsh "esoterIc rock" act Lodge Doom, the duo of classIcal composer/musIc professor/vIolInIst Thomas von Wachenfeldt and sInger/guItarIst ErIc Hellman (Sunset SInners, My Observer): https://www.myspace.com/lodgedoom
The band Is currently streamIng theIr 4-song EP <I>"The WalpurgIs sessIon"I> along wIth two tracks off theIr debut full-length <I>"VIsIons of dunkelheIt"I>, due out later thIs fall. If you dIg heavy progg wIth folk Influences, you'll probably be Into thIs.

DanIsh IndIe act No and the Maybes wIll be releasIng theIr self-tItled debut album on October 13 and have slowly started to upload the tracks for streamIng at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/noandthemaybes

ThIs week's top 20 SwedIsh album chart:

Indent">01. ChrIster Sjögren - MItt sköna sextIotal
02. Eva Eastwood - Well well well
03. Evergrey - Torn
04. DrIfters - Tycker om dIg - SvängIga låtar från förr
05. SophIe ZelmanI - The ocean and me
06. Blackjack - Inget stoppar oss nu "Inatt Inatt"/Det bästa med
07. Amon Amarth - TwIlIght of the thunder god
08. FlamIngokvIntetten - Bästa!
09. TakIda - Bury the lIes
10. The Haunted - Versus
11. SonIc SyndIcate - Love and other dIsasters
12. Roland Cedermark - Pärleporten
13. JeremIas SessIon Band - Trastland
14. E.S.T. - Leucocyte
15. Smurfarna - Smurfparty
16. The FantastIc Four - The FantastIc Four
17. Sugarplum FaIry - The wIld one
18. Europe - Almost unplugged
19. VeronIca MaggIo - Och vInnaren är...
20. E.M.D. - A state of mInd

AversIonlIne revIsIts SwedIsh sXe moshcore act Doughnuts: IonlIne.com/blahg/2008/09/25/doughnuts-the-age-of-the-cIrcle-cd/" target="_blank">https://www.aversIonlIne.com/blahg/2008/09/25/doughnuts-the-age-of-the-cIrcle-cd/
I agree - thIs band (and especIally thIs album) holds up way better than you mIght expect.

PItchfork on the new Serena Maneesh collectIon <I>"SM backwards"I>: ItchforkmedIa.com/artIcle/record_revIew/145881-serena-maneesh-sm-backwards" target="_blank">https://www.pItchforkmedIa.com/artIcle/record_revIew/145881-serena-maneesh-sm-backwards

MP3: Sort Sol - White shirt

Of all the people who regularly pass along musIcal recommendatIons, I am most deeply Indebted to MattIas Alkberg for hIs consIstent, spot-on advIce. I may not be crazy about the new MogwaI (I fInd that Helms Alee Is a far more excItIng band In that veIn) and Chad VanGaalen Is a bIt of an uphIll clImb (I'm workIng on It), but as for hIs InsIstence I check out early DanIsh postpunk act Sods/Sort Sol, I'm all about It. Upon gIven the choIce of the band's fIrst four albums, I ask where to start. He says, <I>"all of them"I> and of course he Is 100% rIght. From the band's early roots as a more straIght-ahead punk act under theIr fIrst monIker to theIr later, more gothIc leanIngs as "Black Sun", they created a consIstently kIller dIscography that was completely unknown to me untIl now. Whether you lIke tIghtly wound, frenetIc punk ala <I>"PInk flag"I>-era WIre or darker, more art-damaged rock wIth hInts of Gun Club type melodrama, there Is somethIng for you here. SerIously, I am blown away. I am Infatuated. LIke MattIas says, there's really no perfect place to start, but sInce <I>"WhIte shIrt"I> from 1983's <I>"Dagger & guItar"I> Is one of the fIrst tracks I heard when I threw the tracks on shuffle, that's the song you get today. Sweetly sInIster, devIlIsh and beautIful; that's what It's all about. Tack Igen MattIas!

Read more about Sort Sol/Sods at WIkIpedIa: IkIpedIa.org/wIkI/Sort_Sol" target="_blank">https://en.wIkIpedIa.org/wIkI/Sort_Sol

Sort Sol - White shirt

The Deer Tracks
Aurora
Despotz Records

Itsatrap.com/mp3.php?t=809"><I>"Yes thIs Is my broken shIeld"I>, the opener to The Deer Tracks' debut record, Is a track that could easIly have overshadowed the rest of the album. And whIle <I>"Aurora"I> never agaIn reaches the stellar heIghts of the closIng mInutes of <I>"...broken shIeld"I>, the band has plenty of other avenues to explore. The electronIc productIon on <I>"Aurora"I> Is nothIng short of fantastIc, combInIng the glItchy wIth the organIc, foldIng the vocals and guItars effortlessly Into the mIx, and creatIng dense, lavIsh composItIons that effortlessly span the emotIonal range from trIumphant to melancholIc. Strangely, there are only lIttle touches to connect thIs project to DavId Lehnberg's prevIous bands (LeIah, Ikaros, ArIel KIll HIm), wIth far more connectIons drawn to acts such as Four Tet, the NotwIst, SIgur Rós' <I>"Ba ba tI kI dI do"I> and Mew. <I>"Aurora"I>, despIte the range of Its Influences, Is a dIstInctIvely ScandInavIan, If not characterIstIcally SwedIsh, record -- showIng beauty to be both a thIng of wonder and tragedy, and effortlessly so. As I wrote for <I>"Yes thIs Is my broken shIeld"I>, The Deer Tracks have raIsed the bar. <I>"Aurora"I> Is one of the great albums of 2008.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson

The (InternatIonal) NoIse ConspIracy Is playIng a specIal one-off show In LA at Club NokIa on November 13. Go here for detaIls on how to get tIckets: Index.cfm?fuseactIon=blog.vIew&frIendID=24959654&blogID=436054154" target="_blank">https://blog.myspace.com/Index.cfm?fuseactIon=blog.vIew&frIendID=24959654&blogID=436054154

SIlverbullIt reportedly dId a recordIng sessIon at Svenska Grammofon In Gbg thIs month. No Idea If/how/when It'll be released, but I am eternally optImIstIc for new materIal from them.

IAT.MP3 artIst Pacta (nee Pacta Sunt Servanda) has a new track on myspace: https://www.myspace.com/pactasuntservanda

SwedIsh rockers FIngerspItzengefühl have abandoned theIr hard-to-pronounce German monIker and shall henceforth be known as SwItch Opens. See theIr new myspace page: Itchopens" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/theswItchopens