PINES & AYELLE SPEAK AS ONE ON NEW SINGLE
Last week Adelaide electronic pop duo Adam Dormand and James Kenneally aka PINES, dropped their new single ‘Speak’. Let its deep dark bass tones, pre-eminent rhythmic shuffle and the detached sensuality of London based Swedish-Iranian vocalist Ayelle engulf you below and then pick it up digitally here. . In case you missed the two tracks they released earlier […]
SASHA & LA FLEUR DROP STELLAR NEW COLLAB.
Welsh DJ & Producer Sasha (Alexander Paul Coe) and his Swedish equivalent, La Fleur (Sanna La Fleur Engdahl), recently joined forces for an impressive new 2-track EP: ‘Förbindelse’ (trans: Connection). Positively glowing in its subtlety, crystalline synths and thick sinews of bass intertwine on the title-track, with the divergent influences of both producers written all […]
WE FLOAT’S INTROSPECTIVE THIRD SINGLE FROM WHAT’S REALLY REAL
Malmö avant-garde pop quartet We Float have shared ‘Inside’, the third single from their forthcoming album, What’s Really Real. As promised, the band are slow dripping a track every fortnight in the lead up to the album’s release next month. The introspective ‘Inside’ is musically a vehicle for both the delicate and absorbing vocals of […]
MOLLY NILSSON ANNOUNCES TWENTY TWENTY
The eighth full length album is imminent from Berlin based Swedish pop auteur Molly Nilsson and follows on from the themes contained on last years Imaginations. Called Twenty Twenty, it again sees Nilsson deliver a withering critique of the unequal and unjust waters neoliberalism, monopoly capitalism and its elitist white male beneficiaries have charted for […]
NEW ANTI-FASCIST WAKE UP CALL BY THE RADIO DEPT.
“The Swedish national election is coming up and that means we’re putting out a new single. What else could we do? There are references to church bells in the lyrics, listeners from outside of Sweden might want to know this: In May 2014 and on a couple of occasions since, churches in Sweden have been […]
LA FLEUR UNLEASHES OUTBREAKER
This week saw Berlin based Swedish DJ/Producer Sanna Engdahl aka La Fleur release Outbreaker, the follow up EP to the excellent Exhaust from earlier this year, the title track of which we just devoured. The three tracker sports two very different originals either side of a remix and is a darker and slightly less dense […]
NEW SINGLE FROM MANY VOICES SPEAK
Many Voices Speak, the musical project of Borlänge artist Matilda Mård, has released an instructively powerful new single called ‘Necessaries’. It’s dreamily insistent disposition reflects the freedom and humility associated with its subject matter. ‘Necessaries’ deals with the difficulties and opportunities that come from the loss of life’s certainties, especially when that certainty revolves around […]
ECHO LADIES DROP VIDEO FOR ‘BEDROOM’, DEBUT ALBUM OUT SOON
Malmö shoegaze pop trio Echo Ladies are set to release their debut album Pink Noise in June. It comes hot on the heels of their debut self titled EP released in March. First single ‘Bedroom’, is an instant winner with its frenetic duel between dark and light front and centre throughout. Ethereal synths and Matilda […]
SIBILLE ATTAR RETURNS WITH NEW EP
In 2013, Stockholm artist Sibille Attar’s debut solo album Sleepyhead was released by the Swedish subsidiary of one of the three major labels, the Universal Music Group, now owned by multinational media conglomerate Vivendi Corporation. While well received, the praise and respect was not enough to go anywhere near making up for the confidence sapping experiences she […]
LISTEN TO THIS NEW DRIVING POP GEM FROM FRANCIS
Swedish pop quintet Francis first caught our attention six years ago when they released the excellent first single ‘Traktor’ from their 2012 EP This Must Be Blood. They then got it again when they announced their debut album Marathon in early 2016 which sported the singles “Horses” and “Follow Me Home”. Now they’ve turned our heads once […]