is giving away the new Den Svenska Tystnaden single "Utnyttjad igen" as a free download: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=318
Said tune isn't a standard album track though, it's actually a cover of "I've been used again" by Billie the Vision & the Dancers and is included on the upcoming best-of collection.
The Silent Ballet reviews the latest Tape album "Revelationes": http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid/384/ItemID/4101/Default.aspx
Ex-Brainpool member Christoffer Lundquist is stepping out from his current role as one of Sweden's leading producers to release his debut solo album "Through the window" on May 4. Preview some tunes here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwBMJyQPCQ
Niki and the Dove's debut single for "The fox" is streaming in the Pitchfork Forkcast: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/15699-the-fox/
IAT.MP3 artist Richard Wilson and his travelling companion Björnstigen are taking a time-out from touring the monuments of grunge to play a couple shows:
04/27 - Ella St. Social Club, Portland, OR
04/28 - The Northern, Olympia, WA w/Levi Fuller + June Madrona
Not that I expect many/any locals to see this, but come out to the Oly show! It'll be fun.
will be doing a 7" with female-fronted hard-rockers Spiders -- read more here: http://denihilrecords.blogspot.com/2011/04/spiders.html
Swedish retro rockers Horisont has recently been picked up by UK label , making them labelmates with hyped act Ghost, among others.
Swedish death metal act Miasmal is the latest to ditch myspace for their own website: http://miasmal.net/
Swedish Eastern-tinged folk-punk act Crash Nomada have a new single out on Wednesday called "From town to town" and here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUtCW7ecVcc
The official video for "Galen/Lever så här" from Ison & Fille off the group's long-awaited new record "För evigt", due out May 11. Direct link: http://youtu.be/tD5qHqQeSXQ
PopMatters gives high marks the The Deer Tracks: http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/139885-the-deer-tracks-the-archer-trilogy-pt.-1-ep/
Electronic acts have been trying their best to emulate machines, long since the early days of Kraftwerk and beyond, but Swedish electro act System takes it to the logical next level by actually employing speech synthesis to replace human vocals. The result is surprisingly effective in context, especially when the lyrics are sung from the chilling perspective of the machine -- "We will be here long after you are gone". Advanced synthesis balanced by analog synths, maintained by two human slaves. Or something like that; it's a dystopian ideal put to sound if ever there was one.
"Inheritance" is System's latest single off the album "Circle of infinite radius", officially released on April 27 in a slightly different version with "more punch" along with the b-side "Against me".
System - Inheritance
New sXe hardcore outta Umeå available for free listening/download: http://svartmakt.bandcamp.com/
Read a short interview with the band here: http://www.swehc.com/2011/04/26/svart-makt/
Pitchfork reviews Figurines new self-titled album as well as Acid House Kings' "Music sounds better with you".
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week unique to our group:
01. Jonathan Johansson
02. Anna Järvinen
03. Jens Lekman
04. Acid House Kings
05. Fredrik
06. Holy Ghost!
07. The Radio Dept.
08. Syket
09. Lykke Li
10. Palpitation
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