BOYS RELEASES RABBITS
Stockholm via Umeå artist Nora Karlsson’s Boys project has just released a new track called ‘Rabbits’. It’s delicately upbeat and well worn retro pop which gradually discards inhibition as the songs’ protagonist comes to an important realisation, one that sees her shed her fear of falling in love. Her eventual acceptance is represented musically by […]
UNBREAK MY BONES WITH EASE
Stockholm duo Ease (Niclas Anderstedt Lindgren & Siri Jennefelt) are set to release a new EP, Let It Burn, Let It Die and have just shared the first single from it. ‘Unbreak My Bones’ sports pummelling beats, ethereal synths and distant vocals all underscored by a murky lo-fi production. The EP, which follows up their […]
SHITKID ANNOUNCES FISH
“the song is about being alone in Asia, floating in a bubble and freezing in the tropics.” Åsa Söderqvist. Shitkid, the lo-fi pop project of Stockholm based artist Åsa Söderqvist has announced the release of her debut record Fish. To mark the announcement, she’s released the Linda Hedström video to her latest single, the incessant and ascerbic ‘Tropics’. […]
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, […]
MR TOPHAT AND ROBYN TEAM UP TO CREATE A HOUSE INSPIRED SLICE OF DISCO HEAVEN
Earlier this month Stockholm house producer Mr Tophat combined with the legendary Robyn to release his new EP, Trust Me, a sprawling three track gem of entrancing and divergent deep disco and house in which all tracks are timed around and over the ten minute mark. Robyn’s contribution is an example minimalist perfection where she […]
BLEED WITH JOEL RAMPAGE
Joel Nyström Holm, one third of Swedish/Norwegian electronic trio Postiljonen has been employing his solo project Joel Rampage to remix and darken the moods of a number of existing tracks, the latest being Erik Jonasson’s Like A Funeral and the most well known a few years back in the form of jj’s Kills mixtape. Last week he […]
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 […]