This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:

01. Salem Al Fakir - This is who I am
02. Lasse Stefanz - 40 ljuva år!
03. Lena Philipsson - Lena 20 år
04. moneybrother - Pengabrorsan
05. musikal - Cabaret - Svenska uppsättningen
06. martin Stenmarck - Nio sanningar och en lögn
07. Bo Kaspers Orkester - Hund
08. Nisse Hellberg - Snackbar blues
09. Laleh - Prinsessor
10. markus Fagervall - Echo heart
11. Anna Ternheim - Separation road
12. Björn Skifs - Andra Decennier
14. Calaisa - Calaisa
15. Lisa miskovsky - Changes
16. Studio - Yearbook 1
17. Frida Hyvönen - music from the dance performance Pudel
18. The Knife - Silent shout
19. Peter Jöback - Flera sidor av samma man
20. Abba - Number ones

Danish singer/songwriter Lasse Vestergaard has a new dreamy country/pop act called Route of the Belated. Listen here: myspace.com/routeofthebelated" target=_blank>https://myspace.com/routeofthebelated

The Tripwire reviews Loney, Dear's US debut album "Loney, noir": m/reviews/2007/1/31/loney-noir" target=_blank>https://www.thetripwire.com/reviews/2007/1/31/loney-noir
In case you are interested, SubPop is currently offering a preorder special that will get you an addional UK import 7" and other schwag for free: m/releases/loney_dear/full_lengths/loney_noir" target=_blank>https://www.subpop.com/releases/loney_dear/full_lengths/loney_noir

Cardigans members magnus Svenningsson, Lasse Johansson and Bengt Lagerberg have a new country music sideproject called Up The mountain that they started while Nina Persson and Peter Svensson were off doing acoustic shows in the US. The band will make their live debut at Inkonst in malmö during the music documentary festival music Doc next monday. Read more: https://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article214567.ece

Bob Hund/Bergman Rock/Sci-Fi Skåne frontman Thomas Öberg has a new project with Graham Lewis of legendary UK punk band Wire (or as this article puts it, The Wire) entitled 27#11. They too will make their live debut at the malmö music Doc festival. Check the article link for more details.

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Lots of new releases are officially released today and now available in the store:

Achordian - A product of the 80s (mp3)
Aerial - The sentinel (CD + mp3)
Anna Leong - After the forest fire (CD)
Sofia Talvik - Street of dreams (mp3)

m/store">Go shopping! Also be aware that the price of the It's A Trap! Record Club will go up tomorrow, so you best get in now unless you want to pay more.

Check out a review of Aerial's new album "The sentinel" posted at the newly-launched Automaton Industries website: mtn.com/2007/01/30/aerial-the-sentinel/" target=_blank>https://atmtn.com/2007/01/30/aerial-the-sentinel/

Norwegian act The Rooph has opened their new website: m/" target=_blank>https://www.therooph.com/
The band's new album "The rats of October Philharmonic" is out now and they will tour Norway in February and the UK in may.

PonyRec has confirmed that Danish indierockers Gravy will unleash their new album with the oh-so-modest title "Glory to our brilliant name" on April 16.

Jeremiha reports that have completed tracking on their new album "Where the stars scream your name" and will soon begin mixing. Expect the finished product to be released around mid-April/early-may with the first single "Teen machine" out a bit sooner.

The Cosy Den blog talks to mattias Björkas from Finnish indiepop act Cats On Fire about each song on their new album: m/2007/01/mattias-bjrkas-on-cats-on-fire-album.html" target=_blank>https://fenceleaners.blogspot.com/2007/01/mattias-bjrkas-on-cats-on-fire-album.html

Geir Jenssen of Norwegian electronic act Biosphere has posted a number of his very first recordings from 1982 for free download: mp3.html" target=_blank>https://www.biosphere.no/mp3.html

Tenderversion has posted three songs for streaming from the new Scraps of Tape album "This is a copy is this a copy": m/" target=_blank>https://www.tenderversion.com/
I have the album in-stock and will be making it available for presale soon.

The new Sahara Hotnights single "Cheek to cheek" is now streaming on myspace: myspace.com/saharahotnights" target=_blank>https://www.myspace.com/saharahotnights
Different than I expected, but I like it.