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Fiction
Century Media
Dark Tranquility can still deliver top notch melodic death metal after some 15 years in the business. Together with At the Gates and In Flames, they are the founders of the so called gothenburg sound. Where most bands would long since peaked, Dark Tranqility at this point sound better than they've done in a long time. I dare say "Fiction" is their best album since the classic "The gallery" from 1995. They make smart use of keyboards and sometimes create a gothic mood, and the variation of really fast and aggressive songs alongside slower material makes this album a very versatile affair. And the fact that vocalist and growl-master Mikael Stanne once again uses his clean voice on two songs is a great move. Songs like "Blind at heart" and "Nothing to no one" is the ultimate proof that this band should achieve the same kind of breakthrough as other Swedish death metal bands like Arch Enemy or In Flames!
- Richard Wilson
Last night's playlist for my show on Sirius Blog Radio:
01. Isolation Years - Yellow cross on blue
02. TALK 1
03. Johndoe - Nattskift
04. Montys Loco - Wasteland
05. Once We Were - Cut corners
06. TALK 2
07. [ingenting] - Mycket vasen for ingenting
08. Margaret Berger - Robot song
09. Namur - Marching
10. Lampshade - New legs
11. TALK 3
12. Maia Hirasawa - gothenburg
13. Mixtapes & Cellmates - Quiet
14. Fattaru - 100:-
15. Juvelen - Hanna
16. TALK 4
17. Säkert! - Allt som är ditt
18. Sonores - 16th of June
19. Detektivbyrån - E18
20. TALK 5
21. At the Gates - The swarm
22. Barra Head - Kill the lights
23. TALK 6
24. The Tough Alliance - Leg 7
25. Torpedo - My evil twin
26. Alog - Catch that totem!
27. TALK 7
28. Valley Days - 10k angels
29. A-ha - Celice
30. Victims - Who the fuck are we?
31. TALK 8
32. The Vicious - Alienated
33. Viola - Unreal life
34. Zweizz - Nowadays the only boring everything is so frustrating
35. Viktor Sjöberg - Winter guitars
36. TALK 9
37. Closer - The talker
38. Aerial - My god, it's full of stars!
39. The Kissaway Trail - La la song
40. Laakso - Italy vs Helsinki
41. The Psyke Project - Panic
42. TALK 10
43. C.Aarmé - We are the world
Next week: expect lots more killer jams including totally a brand new track from Closer and maybe even a spotlight set on post-rock/ambient music. Good times!
Maia Hirasawa managed to sneak into this week's It's A Trap! Last.fm listening group top 10 track chart amidst all the various international indie flavors-of-the-moment:
01. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
02. The Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
03. The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
04. The Arcade Fire - Intervention
05. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
06. The Arcade Fire - My Body Is A Cage
07. The Arcade Fire - The Well and the Lighthouse
08. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
09. LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous
10. Maia Hirasawa - gothenburg
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MP3: Maia Hirasawa - Gothenburg
Maia Hirasawa's debut single "And I found this boy" is classic indiepop through and through, right on down to the big dance number in the video. A little sugary sweet perhaps, but perfect for that transition from winter to spring. But what of the rest of the record? Thankfully, it's more than cutesy girlpop and songs about boys. There are moments of that, sure, but it's all very well-done and balanced with other, more introspective and contemplative material. In the same way that I suspect some people were turned off from Hello Saferide because of "the lesbian song" ("My best friend"), understand that there's much more to it. It's the non-single tracks that elevate the album as a whole. Take "gothenburg" for example - a song about a very specific place and time. The music is totally different, but I can't help but be reminded of Jawbreaker's "West Bay invitational". That's a song that is even more time/place specific, but its essence - the power of capturing that singular moment - is what's important and what makes it so strong and memorable. This will be a song to revisit in years to come.
Updated live dates for Swedish electro/goth act Hearts of Black Science:
03/08 - The Luminaire, London (UK) (Single release party)
03/09 - Betsey Trotwood, London (UK)
03/10 - Water Rats Theatre, London (UK)
03/27 - London Brixton Windmill, London (UK) w/SonicFlyer
03/28 - BBC 6 Radio Live Session w/Gideon Coe
03/28 - Buffalo Bar, London (UK)
03/29 - Bootle Street Circus, Manchester (UK)
03/30 - Sticky Fingers, gothenburg (SWE) (Album release party)
04/02 - tbc, Stockholm (SWE)
04/14 - Lark In The Park, London (UK)
04/16 - George Tavern, London (UK)
04/17 - Industry, London (UK)
04/20 - Hope & Anchor, London (UK)
04/21 - The Engine Room, Brighton (UK)
The band's new album "The ghost you left behind" comes out April 2 via UK-based label Club AC30. In other news, check out the ridiculous, intentionally cheesy ItaloDisco remix they did for friends Hotel Motel: https://www.myspace.com/hotelmotel
The overdubbed guitar riff on the second verse made me LOL.
Upcoming Chronic Heist tourdates:
11/23 - B58, Braunschweig (GER) w/Leatherface
11/24 - Komma, Esslingen (GER)
11/25 - tba (GER)
11/26 - Alte Mälzerei, Regensburg (GER)
11/27 - K4, Nürnberg (GER)
11/28 - Chemiefabrik, Dresden (GER)
11/29 - tba, Göttingen (GER)
11/30 - Kassablanca, Jena (GER)
12/01 - Lovelite, Berlin (GER)
12/02 - JZ, Oerlinhausen (GER)
12/13 - Releaseparty, Stockholm (SWE)
12/16 - Releaseparty, gothenburg (SWE)
All German dates are with World/Inferno Friendship Society.
Danish metalcore act As We Fight will be doing a crazy amount of touring the next few months:
12/06 - Dynamo Club, Eindhoven (HOL)
12/07 - Druckerei, Bad Oeynhausen (GER)
12/08 - Metropool, Hengelo (HOL) w/Caliban
12/09 - Bibelot, Doordrecht (HOL) w/Caliban
12/10 - Het Bolwerk, Sneek (HOL) w/Caliban
12/16 - Copenhagen Skatepark, Copenhagen (DK)
12/25-12/30 - Spirit X-Mas Tour w/Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Neaera, Fire In The Attic, Deadlock, Misery Speaks
12/25 - Werk 2, Leipzig (GER)
12/26 - Weststadthalle, Essen (GER)
12/27 - Substage, Karlsruhe (GER)
12/28 - Eisenbahnhalle, Losheim (GER)
12/29 - Europahal, Tielt (BEL)
12/30 - Markthalle, Hamburg (GER)
01/12-01/21 - UK tour
01/24-01/28 - SWE tour
01/26 - Henriksberg, gothenburg (SWE)
02/02 - Pitstop, Kolding (DK)
02/03 - Bygningen, Vejle (DK)
02/15 - Pakhuset, Aarhus (DK)
02/16 - Von Hatten, Randers (DK)
02/17 - Kulisselageret, Horsens (DK)
02/22 - Studenterhuset, Aalborg (DK) w/Volbeat
02/23 - The Rock, Copenhagen (DK)
02/24 - Gimle, Roskilde (DK)
03/02 - Kulturfabrikken, Nykøbing Falster (DK)
03/03 - Folkets Hus, Struer (DK)
As mentioned before, the band's new album "Midnight tornado" is out now and you can listen to samples: https://www.myspace.com/aswefight
Out of Clouds
Into your lovely summer
self-released
More breezy, melodic pop rock from Sweden... how do they keep churning this stuff out so effortlessly over there? Out of Clouds is a six-piece ensemble from gothenburg and this, their second EP, is a charming little thing. What you get here is four tracks of sweet, summery rock distinguished by strong melodies and the high, plaintive vocals of Joel Goranson, who reminds a bit of American singer David Mead (especially when he goes for the falsetto). "Like a lily", which has already gotten some attention on these shores, balances its airy vocals with a fairly vigorous rhythmic attack, while the evocatively named "Revelations in a cold season" offers clean, pretty guitar lines and a pleasing string arrangement. Lyrically, matters tend to be a little saccharine, as on the reasonably rockin' tune "Untroubled mind", where Joel tells us: "I had this feeling, I feel fine/I wanna spend my days in sunshine/I shouldn't worry cause I am/Under protection of the greatest love/I feel like dancing..." There are sweet harmonies adorning the tune, but everything tends to be pretty much on the surface. On the slightly more melancholy "He's in control", the arrangement has a bit of a '60s vibe, and the vocals reel you in, but the tune seems to be some kinda religious ode, which leaves me unsettled. It's too early to make a real prediction for Out of Clouds, but they definitely have an ear for melody and pop-rockin' freshness. Just watch it on the syrup, boys, 'cause many a band has gotten creatively stuck when they poured it on too thick.
- Kevin Renick