Ex-Nasum drummer Anders Jakobssons has revealed that his new band is now called Coldworker. They will make their live debut supporting Gadget at the band's record release party in Gävle on June 3.
The video for Datarock's new single "Bulldozer" is now online: http://web.mac.com/p.forneri/iWeb/DataRockSecret/bulldozeryes.html
Swedish noise/drone artists The Dread Violents aka Dead Violets have posted a new EP for free download: http://www.archive.org/details/zero075
Swedish post-rock trio Midaircondo has been bestowed with the honor of opening for José González on tour in the UK and Scotland and will also be doing a few warm-up gigs on their own in the Netherlands and Belgium beforehand:
04/12 - Vera, Groeningen (NL)
04/13 - Domino festival, Brussels (BEL)
04/14 - Motel Mozaique, Rotterdam (NL)
04/16 - Cactus Muziekcentrum, Brügge (BEL)
04/20 - Dome Concert Hall, Brighton (UK)
04/21 - Colston Hall, Bristol (UK)
04/22 - Apollo, Manchester (UK)
04/23 - Corn Exchange, Cambridge (UK)
04/24 - Hammersmith Apollo, London (UK)
04/25 - City Hall, Hull (UK)
04/26 - Alexander Theater, Birmingham (UK)
04/27 - Moshulu, Aberdeen (SCO)
04/28 - Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (SCO)
04/29 - City Hall, Newcastle (UK)
04/30 - City Hall, Sheffield (UK)
05/01 - Apollo, Oxford (UK)
This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Lars Winnerbäck - Efter nattens bränder - 1996-2006
02. Totta & Wiehe - Dylan
03. Sebastian - Sebastian
04. Linda Bengtzing - Ingenting att förlora
05. The Refreshments - 24-7
06. Magnus Uggla - Ett bedårande barn av sin tid
07. Marie Serneholt - Enjoy the ride
08. Andreas Johnson - Mr johnson, your room is on fire
09. Christer Sjögren - King creole
10. Son of a Plumber - Son of a Plumber
11. The Knife - Silent shout
12. Rebecka Törnqvist - Melting into orange
13. Timo Räisänen - I'm indian
14. The Sounds - Dying to say this to you
15. Lotta Engberg - Världens bästa lotta
16. Ulf Lundell - När jag kysser havet - det bästa 75-84
17. Björn Skifs - Decennier sånger från en annan tid
18. Håkan Hellström - Nåt gammalt, nåt nytt, nåt lånat, nåt blått
19. Petter - P
20. Rigmore Gustafsson - On my way to you
Last week's It's a trap! Last.fm/Audioscrobbler listening group most-played artist chart:
01. Tiger Lou
02. The Radio Dept.
03. The Knife
04. Morrissey
05. The Concretes
06. Belle and Sebastian
07. Arctic Monkeys
08. Radiohead
09. The Strokes
10. José González
Top 10 tracks for the week:
01. Morrissey - You Have Killed Me
02. The Radio Dept. - The worst taste in music
03. José González - Heartbeats
04. The Knife - Silent shout
05. Morrissey - I Will See You In Far Off Places
06. Timo Räisänen - Fear no darkness, promised child
07. Timo Räisänen - Gee Whiz
08. Timo Räisänen - Lead Star
09. Tiger Lou - Oh Horatio
10. Tiger Lou - The Loyal
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The new Emil Jensen album "Orka då" has been confirmed for a May 3 release. The full tracklist:
01. Maj förra året
02. Spelar stor roll
03. Inte vackrast i världen
04. Jorden runt i motvind
05. Syster
06. Jag har vaknat i naturen utan att ha en aning om var jag är
07. Sudditjuven
08. Hur lyckliga kan vi bli
09. Tror du det?
10. Sländornas dag
The first single will be "Spelar stor roll".
MP3: Vijaya - Your gun will never set you free
We continue our week of daily new music with a song from Vijaya off of her self-titled debut full-length album. Like most everything on the Exergy label, the sound of the melancholy singer/songwriter is greatly enhanced by the talented Mattias Olsson. Not only is he a gifted producer with a great ear for talent, but his instrumental abilities also add quite a bit to his records. And with that, let me turn it over to Jason Christie to speak more specifically about this particular song:
In my book, music equals art when it combines quality with sentiment and attaches balance. Then a strong message is always good. So like yesteryear anti-star who sang war protests, you have a very timely political impetus to Vijaya's "Your gun will never set you free" - a metallic march and bitmap combined with lazy deadpan tracks in the Chrissie Hynde school. Yet, when did Hynde ever sprinkle C86 in there? This is good gear. Stick it in your gun and smoke it.
Vijaya - Your gun will never set you free
It was really difficult to pick a song from Galento to post. Their new album "From the sea" is even more obtuse than their previous work "Golfstarblue". I suppose you could call them post-rock as they are definitely in the business of creating epic soundscapes, but there's way more artistry here than usually demonstrated in that genre and they lack the usual quiet/loud dynamics. No, this truly qualifies as "experimental music". They take organic musical sounds, chop them up and put them back together and then throw in elements of electronics and found-sound. At times I'm reminded of Negativland, other times it's Alog or maybe Majessic Dreams. It's mysterious and evocative, like the soundtrack to an abstract movie. The problem, as said above, is that it's extremely difficult to pick out one section of the record to represent the whole. No, scratch that: it's impossible. Hopefully this one piece stirs up your interest enough to check out the rest. It's worth it.
Labrador has announced that Sambassadeur's new EP "Coastal affair" will be released on May 3 and the new [ingenting] EP "Sommardagboken" one week later on May 10.
Isolation Years will be recording a new album this summer at Studio Gröndahl in Stockholm with Johan Gustafsson producing.
Swedish crusty doom act The Jam Session has a new website: http://www.thejamsession.se/
The band's new album "När mörkret väller över" is out now on Concubine Records. Check out the video for "Suffer the loss" here: http://www.concubinerecords.com/suffer_the_loss.wmv
The video for the latest Le Sport single "It's not the end of the world" is now online: http://www.songsiwish.com/lesport/Itsnottheend.mov
The track comes from the duo's debut full-length "Euro deluxe dance party", out now on Songs I Wish I Had Written.
High Bias is updated with a crapload of new Scandinavian music reviews, including new stuff from The Ark, Babylon Bombs, Nicolai Dunger and more: http://highbias.com/