PSL has the premiere of the new Tove Styrke/Gnucci Banana collaboration single/video "Bad time for a good time": miar-tove-styrke-feat-gnucci-banana-bad-time-for-a-good-time/" target="_blank">https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/03/06/premiar-tove-styrke-feat-gnucci-banana-bad-time-for-a-good-time/
New music from Finnish noisepunx Slussenanalys, far more wheezy and drawn-out than anything I've posted from them previously.
"Inanimate" is the first single from the upcoming Guilt Trip album "Feed the fire", due out march 23 via and sounding very heavily influenced by early Skinny Puppy. Preorder now and get a bonus disc with remixes.
"Only place I know" is the first single off Svedberg & The Hillside Stranglers' upcoming album "City serenade", due out march 28 via . The vocals don't do much for me, but I dig the band and the arrangement. RIYL Boy Omega, Isolation Years.
New music from 11th Street Kids a sideproject of The Floor is made of Lava. Pretty forgettable until the sax solo ImO, but who knows? maybe the album ("Well, what did you expect?", due out April 23) will be better.
Danish indie/electronic artist marybell Katastrophy will release her sophomore album "Amygdala" on April 4, on vinyl or download only. There will be a release party that evening at Radar in Aarhus.
Norwegian postrock act The Samuel Jackson Five have announced that their new self-titled album, their fourth overall, will be released on April 27 via . This will mark the first time the band will be heard on record with vocals, as the new album will feature songs sung by guests such as Truls Heggero (Lukestar, Truls and the Trees), Pål Angelskår (minor majority) and Thomas Bratlie (Rumble in Rhodos), in addition to new band member Jonny "the Captain" Knutsen. Samples soon?
has announced that they have signed Freddie Wadling's new postpunk/industrial project with producer Per Svensson entitled Kingdom Of Evol and will be releasing their debut album "Dark passages * Nocturnal incidents" in early may. Far more exciting than the Freddie covering a bunch of old Bond tunes, that's for sure. Full press release m/notes/progress-productions/progress-productions-to-release-legendary-freddie-wadling/10150726175611255" target="_blank">here.
Stars In ComaI'm just going to go ahead and say it...Kevin Barnes. From the light touches of soul and funk, to the use of found sound, to bandleader André Brorsson's wobbly croon, the of montreal leadman's DNA is all over Stars in Coma's fifth album, "midnight puzzle". Not that there's anything wrong with that.
The malmo, Sweden-based quartet creates a dazzling cloud of sound that deftly skirts baccalaurean excess -- even as synths, guitars, dulcimers, choirs and strings are piled sky-high. Ideas as well are stockpiled with a care that almost borderlines on fetishism. The album contains a career's worth of evolution all silly-stringed together -- songs seemingly traveling from point A to B via point D. Or, as is the case of opening track "And so", via point X -- its jaunty, folk pop transforming into a nu-disco jam before folding in on itself in a radio-influenced haze.
For a lesser band, this more-is-more technique might indicate hiding behind sound rather than songwriting. However, Brorsson exonerates himself nicely on the title track -- a 1970s torch song ballad featuring his expelled angst over a single piano and whistled refrain. Hard to believe this is the same guy who hit the dance floor on previous tune, the slick new wave jam "Unique emotion". But therein lies the power of Stars in Coma: over the course of "midnight puzzle", they somehow manage to be all things to most listeners...and they do so brilliantly.
- Laura Studarus
"Brännbart" is the first single off Staden's upcoming marcus Price-produced album "Dröm stort lev större".
PSL reports that maria Eriksson of The Concretes/Santa maria/Heikki is recording a new album in Swedish with mattias Alkberg and Jakob Hellman's backing band Neverna: m-vad-som-sker-nar-man-spelar-tillsammans-maria-eriksson-spelar-med-nerverna/" target="_blank">https://blogg.svt.se/psl/2012/03/05/det-handlar-om-vad-som-sker-nar-man-spelar-tillsammans-maria-eriksson-spelar-med-nerverna/
A mere 7 days of work from start to finish and now Sailor & I have a video.
Urørt winner mikhael Paskalev now has an official video for his award-garnering single "I spy".
Bad Sounds brings news of the new band Barren Womb rising from the ashes of Like Rats from a Sinking Ship: magazine.com/article/barren-womb-fresh-blood-from-experienced-players/" target="_blank">https://www.badsoundsmagazine.com/article/barren-womb-fresh-blood-from-experienced-players/
The band's debut release will be a split 7" with crust/grind act Forræderi, due out may 4 via /.
New pastoral instrumental music from Sweden, discovered by way of Prejka. RIYL Vidderna, Ljudbilden & Piloten.