miss Li's new album, due out April 1, will be called "Dancing the whole way home". The first single "I heard of a girl" comes out march 17 and can be heard now at myspace: myspace.com/experiencemissli" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/experiencemissli
Listen to the new track "music for hiss and elevator" from Swedish ambient/experimental act Ved: myspace.com/vedsound" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/vedsound
Sad Day For PuppetsThis week is a great week for Swedish music connoisseurs living in London, both Sad Day for Puppets and First Aid Kit are playing here. Yesterday I went to The Social to see Sad Day for Puppets. First up were The Deer Tracks (also from Sweden), who play music I don't get at all – some kind of slow ambient electro drone. There are fans of this genre, I'm pretty certain on that, but I don't associate with them. I watched half their set, then I ordered another beer and sat down as far away from the stage I could.
Sad Day for Puppets are great, their album is very solid and they've got some blinding songs (they sound a bit like a more melodic The Radio Dept. or a more shoegazing Camera Obscura). Yesterday it was all shambles though, mostly due to the sound situation being catastrophic. Over the weekend I went to a festival in Oslo and, despite short changeovers and stressed out musicians, nothing there sounded as bad as yesterday's show. There was feedback throughout the whole set and Anna Ecklund's vocals were barely audible (something that the crowd kept pointing out, alas to no avail). I don't blame the band, they did as best as they could, just a shame that they had to suffer on the behalf of a sound engineer not being able to do his job (The Deer Tracks brought their own engineer who annoyingly ran back and forth all the time to check that the sound was ok, but at least he got the job done). I'm not particularly fussy about how a gig sounds, as long as I can hear the vocals I'm usually ok, so this was a very rare occasion where the quality of the sound actually ruined my whole gig experience. A total waste of £6 and an evening.
- Simon Tagestam
Swedish powerpop act The Zoo will be releasing their debut single "Stay until the morning" on march 1, the same day their debut full-length "We can't wait" comes out via the band's own manhoover Records. Listen at myspace: myspace.com/thezooworld" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/thezooworld
When I first got Detektivbyrån's latest record "Wermland" it immediately became my wife's favorite record (an honor now held by The Devil's Blood, but that's a different story). Which means that she would listen to it incessantly and though I'm ashamed to admit it, it drove me nuts. I don't know why, but I couldn't hang at all. Flash forward to the present and the situation is reversed. Not that I'm really all that surprised. Detektivbyrån is an amazing band, not to mention m/?n=29057">a worthy obsession. The problem was with me, not them! Even better, msession.blogspot.com/2009/02/detektivbyran.html" target="_blank">recent m/?p=321" target="_blank">videos are keeping them in the spotlight. I don't think it's very far-fetched to call them one of Sweden's best bands.
Detektivbyrån - En annan typ av disco
Updated Wolfbrigade tourdates:
03/05 - Utkanten, malmö (SWE)
03/06 - Alte meierei, Kiel (GER)
03/07 - Az, mülheim, (GER)
03/08 - The Buze, Steenwijk (NL)
03/09 - La Zona, Liege (BEL)
03/11 - Au, Frankfurt (GER)
03/12 - Beat Club, Stuttgart (GER)
03/13 - Juzi, Göttingen (GER)
03/14 - Dödsmaskinen, Köpenhamn (DK)
04/09 - tba, Valencia (ESP)
04/10 - La Jungla Squat, Barcelona (ESP)
04/11 - La muerte Fest, madrid (ESP)
05/30 - Rassle PunkRock, Emmaboda (SWE)
06/12-13 - Punk Illegal Fest 5, munkedal (SWE)
07/17 - Obscene Extreme (CZ)
Updated Polish tourdates for Thomas Denver Jonsson:
03/04 - Klub Pod Jaszczurami, Krakow
03/05 - meskal, Poznan
03/06 - Stara Wozowia, Lusowo k. Poznania
03/07 - magazyn, Tarnowskie Góry
03/08 - Niskie Laki, Wroclaw
03/09 - Stary Gramofon, Wolów
03/10 - Kawiarnia Baszta, Ostrzeszów
Little marbles have a new video for the song "Rosa": m/watch?v=yr3XC1cJW_k" Target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3XC1cJW_k
Check out the video for the song "Dilettantes and jew's harp players" from Norwegian act Ergo: meo.com/3238357" target="_blank">https://www.vimeo.com/3238357
The band's debut album "mountaineering" is out now via metronomicon Audio and they are also giving away a free mp3: metronomiconaudio.net/audio/ergo/mp3/mountaineering%20-%20DEVELOPERS!.mp3" target="_blank">https://www.metronomiconaudio.net/audio/ergo/mp3/mountaineering%20-%20DEVELOPERS!.mp3
New releases on the way from Jester Records:
may ?? - Upland - monochrome adventures
April 20 - When - Homage series vol. I: Sun Ra
Upland also has a new website: https://www.upland.no/
Watch Haust get awesome in the Norwegian forest: https://www.nrk.no/lydverket/lydverket-spanderer-haust/
Download the new Sophie Rimheden single "Feel the beat": myspace.com/feeltbeat" target="_blank">https://www.myspace.com/feeltbeat
Check out Swingfly's new video for the single "Touch and go": m/watch?v=BG3uq1XOT6k&fmt=18" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG3uq1XOT6k&fmt=18
If you enjoy the tracks he did with Teddybears, you'll be sure to dig this as it's more of the same.
Norwegian act Animal Alpha has officially called it quits: malalpha.com/aa/news/701-press_release.html" target="_blank">https://www.animalalpha.com/aa/news/701-press_release.html
The band lost two members m/?n=25348">back in December and apparently was unable to recover.
Popmatters on Luomo's vastly overrated "Convivial" album: matters.com/pm/review/69955-luomo-convivial/" target="_blank">https://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/69955-luomo-convivial/
I seriously do not get the appeal of this record whatsoever - I've tried to listen many times, but it's a total snore.