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mokira is one of Andreas Tilliander's many aliases and "Persona" is his most recent release as such, his second for the label Type. Billed as an exercise in pure analog electronics, I expected to be greeted by various pleasant bleeps and bloops, but what I got instead was dull as doornails minimalist ambiance. Drone doesn't have to be dull, nor should it be, yet this record goes nowhere. It's odd too because it's generally pleasant to listen to, just entirely non-compelling. Witness "Lord, am I going down?", one of the album's slightly more dramatic tracks. The listener is treated to gentle waves of sound, deep, chiming echoes and subtle textural shifts, but it eventually just collapses into an extended wash. There's hardly any negative space and the total dynamics are near-nil. At the end it simply drifts effortlessly into the next cut. my emotional resonance is zero. After many repeated listens, I can only say: I don't care.
Mokira - Lord, am I going down?
Swedish indie act The Idle Hands have revamped their website: m/" target="_blank">https://www.theidlehands.com/
Signe Høirup Wille-Jørgensen (aka Jomi massage) and martin Ryum of Danish act Speaker Bite me have started a new band project called We Can Love You which includes fellow Jomi massage backing member Luke Sutherland. The trio will make their live debut on may 21 at Plex in Copenhagen.
Danish artist Oh Land has signed an international deal with Epic Records and will be travelling to the US later this month to begin work on her next album.
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Everything about Burning Hearts just seems to fit - from the beautifully conceived cover art (that reminds me of the early dust jackets of Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's cradle") to the whirling swells of pop instrumentation that provide the landscape for Jessika Rapo's voice (one that wonderfully channels Nico at times) to glide along. There is a twee playfulness reminiscent of Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura, but Burning Hearts are very much a collaboration that could only have come together in Scandinavia. Opener "I lost my colour vision" exists somewhere between Club 8 and moonbabies, and "Aboa sleeping" continues to transverse this Nordic territory throughout with a dexterity that only echoes certain bands, Granada and The Chrysler among them, without feeling weighed down by their influence. "Aboa sleeping" is a lavishly imagined pop album, one where my favorite tracks has shifted almost every listen. There is one stumble on the record, however - the strangely conceived "The galloping horse" was removed from my iTunes quite quickly (I can only listen to the sound of heart arrhythmia and a narrator from a 1950s-style medical instructional film played over an arpeggiated synthline so many times). Stumbles and arrhythmia aside, "Aboa sleeping" is one of the best albums Shelflife has put out, and Burning Hearts have proven themselves one of the strongest members of a very strong label roster.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
The release date for mew's new album "No more stories..." has been revised to August 17 with the new "No more stories EP" preceding it on June 29. Tracklist for both at Gaffa: https://gaffa.dk/nyhed/32699
The Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus-penned musical "Kristina från Duvemåla" will get an English translation and the new version will premiere at Carnegie Hall in NYC this coming September.
Indie act Swedish for Beginners are currently streaming their entire new album "Facts & fabrications" at myspace: myspace.com/swedishforbeginners" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/swedishforbeginners
It comes out on may 27 via Wonderland Records and a release party will be held on may 30 at Sticky Fingers in Göteborg with labelmates Quarterhorse.
Burning Hearts