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This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Scotts - På vårt sätt
02. Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a mayday
03. Irya's Playground - Irya's playground
04. Magnus Carlsson - Re:collection 93-08
05. Takida - Bury the lies
06. ABBA - The albums (9CD box set)
07. Sofia Jannok - Ássogáttis / By the embers
08. Per Gessle - Party crasher
09. Kent - Kent box 1991-2008
10. Ulf Lundell - Omaha
11. Frida Hyvönen - Silence is wild
12. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Communion
13. Veronica Maggio - Och vinnaren är...
14. Jill Johnson - Baby blue paper
15. Titiyo - Hidden
16. Kleerup - Kleerup
17. Eldkvarn - Hunger hotell
18. Agnes - Dance love pop
19. In Flames - A sense of purpose
20. Petter - X - Greatest hits
Moto Boy's performance this Sunday, January 25 at Hägersten Revelation Church in Sweden at 6pm CET will be streamed live via his website: https://www.motoboy.se/
He will be backed by the string quartet Vindla and will be playing both classical material from his new "For Martha" EP as well as songs from his self-titled debut album.
Swedish industrial/minimal-synth act Agent Side Grinder will be contributing a brand new track called "The scream" to Enfant Terrible's upcoming comp CD "Radio resistencia", due out in February. The group also has a new EP in the works, but there's no details on that yet.
UPDATE: Other Swedish acts confirmed to appear on the aforementioned comp include Saralunden and Oplen. Expect new full-length releases from those two in the near future as well.
Stream the new Anna Frank single "Happy story" at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/annafrank
The band's debut album "Harriets' grief" will be released on January 28.
Normally I ignore 98% of all remix news, but I can't pass up a Familjen remix of Fever Ray: https://www.discobelle.net/2009/01/23/if-i-had-a-heart-familjen-remix/
Finnish dark ambient/industrial artist Niko Skorpio's has revealed that his next album "Psilocybe necrophila" is ready for preorder/download: https://www.someplaceelse.net/releases/?id=spe052
To create the recording Niko chopped up his old tape collection from the 80s and reassembled the various metal demos, boots and so on into a new composition that was then "captured, processed and reconstructed, over and over until a new form began to take shape."
The Fine Arts Showcase has confirmed the tracklist for their next album, now entitled "Dolophine smile":
01. Friday on my knees
02. For those who dream with open eyes
03. The teenage order
04. Lovesick
05. Dolophine smile
06. Blue perfume
07. Looking for your love
08. I'm sorry
09. London, my town
10. You knew I was trouble from the start (featuring Theoretical Girl)
Finnish legends 22-Pistepirkko are coming to the UK in February and bringing countrymen/labelmates Joensuu 1685 along for the ride:
02/24 - Windmill Brixton, London
02/25 - 12 Bar Club, London
02/26 - The Lexington, London (Joensuu 1685 only)
The new Melody Club single "Girls don't always wanna have fun" is streaming at myspace: https://www.myspace.com/melodyclub
Here are the winners of this year's Rockbjörnen prize in all the Swedish categories:
Female artist: Amanda Jenssen
Male artist: Lars Winnerbäck
Newcomer: Amanda Jenssen
Album: Håkan Hellström - För sent för Edelweiss
Song: Ola Svensson - Feelgood
Live act: Håkan Hellström
Group: Takida
Myspace prize: Billie The Vision And The Dancers
The Sounds will be supporting No Doubt on tour later this year. Dates and details soon.
Hopefully you read her analysis of Alphabeat's lyrics, but now it's time to check out Elisabeth Vincentelli's full report on the music of Swedish metal legends Bathory: https://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2009_200901-ug-bathory.html
Ronnie Sundin's upcoming CD on Fang Bomb will be called "Seven year silence". Expect an April release.
Totalt Jävla Mörker are back in the studio working on their next album.