MARIA USBECK UNVEILS WORK OF MUSICAL DUALITY
Brooklyn based artist Maria Usbeck has been busily working away creating new material for a new album to follow up Amparo, her excellent debut from 2016. Her first cut to surface since then however, ‘Bosque De Bambú’, a splendid piece of synth fused pop characterised by a musical and cultural duality, will not appear on it. […]
CLUB 8’S GENTLE INVITATION TO GOLDEN ISLAND
Back in late January Swedish duo Club 8, the two decades young project of Johan Angergård and Karolina Komstedt release their 10th album Golden Island. A departure of sorts from previous releases, this is a quietly aspirational and delicately transformative record of sorts with its New Age employment of world music motifs and geographically specific instrumentation. […]
CLUB 8 ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM & SHARES IT’S MEDITATIVE 1ST SINGLE
Photograph: Kjell B Persson Swedish duo Club 8 recently announced the upcoming release of their 10th album Golden Island. Now into their third decade of existence, the announcement is marked by the release of the album’s restrained and mysterious first single, ‘Breathe’, which is further evidence of how Johan Angergård and Karolina Komstedt continue reinvent the […]
NEW EP FROM THE RADIO DEPT.
Last month The Radio Dept. dropped a new EP based around the 12″ version of ‘Teach Me To Forget’ a track from last year’s outstanding LP Running Out Of Love. It’s very much in keeping with their usual modus operandi between albums where they have released EP’s that contain many a fine non-album track. This […]
DJUSTIN SHARE SECOND SINGLE FROM VOYAGERS
Swedish/American electronic pop duo Djustin recently shared the expertly paced second single and opening track ’New Preset’ from their forthcoming debut album Voyagers. Rose Suau’s from the netherworld vocals play a key role on this one amidst Johan Angergård’s employment of huge beats and deliberative arpeggio and cosmic laden synth work. Voyagers is out May […]
DJUSTIN ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM
Djustin, the trans-Atlantic collaboration between Johan Angergård (The Legends etc…….) and Rose Suau (Impossible Twin) are set to release their debut album Voyagers. Indie30 first featured the duo in April last year with their track ‘Stars‘, one of three singles to surface throughout the year. The first single from Voyagers, ‘Dancing’ sees a pumping jungle inspired […]
THE LEGENDS ANNOUNCE NEW DOUBLE ALBUM, DROP NEW SINGLE
“I love Futurism. I love the dynamism of modern technology. I love the endless possibilities… ‘Nightshift’ might be a night album, but it’s lit up by neon.” Johan Angergård, the man behind The Legends (and a million other projects) has announced the release of his upcoming new double album, Nightshift. ‘Cash’, the album’s opening salvo, […]
THE RADIO DEPT. SHARE COMMITTED TO THE CAUSE
“We’re here to work Not break free We’re here to hurt Endlessly” The Radio Dept. have shared a new single, ‘Committed To the Cause’ from their soon to be released and soon to be career high album, Running Out Of Love. It comes just days after the superb ‘We Got Game’ dropped last week. Check […]
THE RADIO DEPT. DROP NEW ODE TO RESISTANCE
The Radio Dept. have released a new single, ‘We Got Game’. It’s confidently and beautifully crafted resistance advocacy against the rise of divisive right wing politics and cold and impersonal corporate power. Ethereal synths in a myriad of forms wrap their hooks and melodies around propulsive arpeggio counterpoints as Johan Duncanson lauds powerful organised resistance […]
THE LEGENDS ENLIST MARIA USBECK FOR NEW SINGLE
The Legends, the pop project of Johan Angergård, released a new single ‘Cocaine’ yesterday, a musically delicate almost cautionary tale of want to follow up the pulsating club ready, yet lyrically foreboding, ‘Summer In The City (Living Is For Somebody Else)’. The juxtaposition between music and word continues in Angergård latest works. The new single enlists […]