Pitchfork posts an official review of Robyn's self-titled album: media.com/record-reviews/r/robyn/robyn.shtml" target=_blank>https://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/r/robyn/robyn.shtml
Frankly, I'm surprised it's not getting the 'best new music' tag.

Callisto, Finland's answer to Cult of Luna, has announced that they have begun preproduction for their second album. The band plans to enter the studio with producer/engineer Jonas Olsson in December and the finished product should be released sometime in the first half of next year.

Check out a grand literate review of José González from The Harvard Crimson: mson.com/article.aspx?ref=508742" target=_blank>https://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=508742
Splendid chimes in with their take on it as well: m/review.html?reviewid=1127125931189272" target=_blank>https://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1127125931189272

Bror Stalin and the Horses, the new project from Pontus of Dialog Cet, has posted a new album for free download: m/brorstalin/" target=_blank>https://www.pntsstln.com/brorstalin/

Blindead Productions will release a new 12" from Swedish crustpunks massmord in November entitled "Inget Liv/Ingen Död". Their description: "11 tracks of downtuned and dark Swedish hardcore with lots of piercing guitar leads, brutal bass lines, whirlwind drumming, and dual fe/male trade-off vocals."

This week's top 20 Swedish student radio chart:

01. (NY) Kristian Anttila - "Paul Weller"
02. (NY) Tiga - "You Gonna Want me"
03. (01) Acid House Kings - "Tonight is Forever"
04. (05) Kanye West - "Golddigger"
05. (NY) Hard Fi - "Hard to Beat"
06. (NY) Svenska Akademien & Promoe - "En varning"
07. (04) Röyksopp - "What Else is There?"
08. (02) Death Cab for Cutie - "Soul meets Body"
09. (08) Suburban Kids With Biblical Names - "Loop Duplicate my Heart"
10. (ÅT) Embassy - "Some Indulgence"
11. (09) Jem  - "Just a Ride"
12. (06) Franz Ferdinand - "Do You Want To"
13. (NY) Bloc Party - "Two more Years"
14. (NY) Alf - "Söttsalt"
15. (NY) Randy - "Razorblade"
16. (07) The Greatest Hits - "Give it to me Baby (med Jesse)"
17. (NY) Stars - "Ageless Beauty"
18. (10) Hello Saferide - "If I don't Write This Song, Somehone I Love Will Die"
19. (13) They Live by Night - "Truth or Dare"
20. (14) The Legends - "He Knows the Sun"

Leavin the chart: Cat5, Her Space Holiday, mattias Alkberg BD, maxïmo Park, ms Dynamite, The Cardigans, Turbonegro and Weeping Willows.

Norwegian black-metal legends Emperor will reunite for next year's Inferno Festival in Oslo in April and the big Wacken Open Air festival in August after playing a surprise 3-song gig at the Scream magazine 15-year anniversary party in Oslo on Friday. I know a lot of people will be very excited about this, but the truth is that the band was never all that exciting live. Get me news about a new album and then maybe I'll be interested.

In related news, Emperor guitarist Samoth and drummer Trym's other band Zyklon will record their third album in November and vocalist/guitarist Ihsahn has a solo album due early next year.

Aftonbladet has streaming previews for the entire new Cardigans album "Super extra gravity": ml" target=_blank>https://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,708005,00.html

Both m/blahg/2005/10/october-tide-deserves-new-dawn.html" target=_blank>Aversionline and m/?p=82" target=_blank>Dark Dose have posted tracks from the seasonably appropriate Katatonia sideproject October Tide.

This week's top artists for the Itsatrap Audioscrobbler/Last.fm listening group:

01. mew
02. Sigur Rós
03. Franz Ferdinand
04. Death Cab for Cutie
05. Randy
06. Architecture in Helsinki
07. Of montreal
08. m83
09. I'm from Barcelona

I'd like to encourage all regular readers of this site who listen to music on their computers to join up so we can get an even better idea of what everyone is listening to. Go here for more: m/group/itsatrap/" target=_blank>https://www.last.fm/group/itsatrap/

The latest Scandinavian music reviews from the German webzine Sellfish:

ml" target=_blank>Club Killers - Two nights with...
ml" target=_blank>Randy - Randy the band
ml" target=_blank>Satanic Surfers - Taste the poison

madrid will host the "Swedish Rockdays" on November 30 at Sala Arena. The festival will feature a number of Swedish bands from a multitude of genres and besides the main showcase gig, there will also be in-stores and radio shows. Acts slated to perform include Ebon Tale, A Sudden Burst of Optimism, The Skiller, Les Issambres and The Gain. more info: https://www.swedishrockdays.tk/

Namur reports that his third album "Songs from the valley of Baca" will not be ready for release this fall as originally expected, but will instead be out sometime next spring.