has announced the signing of new act Birthgiving Toad, the moniker of young Danish artist Lasse Bækby Buch, and will be releasing three of his records this coming year -- the full-length albums "For awkward company" and "As fruit hat" plus the EP "Music for young centaurs".
Head to ' website to hear the brand new Necrovation track "Sepulchreal" in the site's mediaplayer: http://www.agoniarecords.com/
"All my friends are alcoholics," so goes the refrain of Sibille Attar's debut single, just released via . Worth checking out.
Speaking of pyramids, I like to imagine that this song is a direct expression of old-man-clouding over the modern era of tumblr-meets-witch house-style content-less/geometry-obsessed internet youth culture, which I suppose could be totally plausible considering Odyssey's own old-school, Geocities-style website, but I strongly suspect I am off the mark. Regardless, it's a good tune and I'm really into the recording which was done at Studio Hufvudstaden in Söderköping, a fact I gladly didn't discover until I had already made up my mind about it. Makes sense though- much like Maim who also recorded there, Odyssey's album "Abyssmal despair" sounds extremely rugged and dirty while still somehow retaining every instrument's place in the mix without ever getting muddy. Aside from a few minor overdubs, I bet this is an incredibly accurate representation of what these three dudes sound like jamming in a room together. In other cases I'm all for using the studio as its own instrument, but it makes perfect sense for a group of heavy jammers like this.
Odyssey - Pyramids
Check out this trailer for the upcoming Efterklang album "Piramida", due out this September via /. The clip features footage of the band in the abandoned Russian island of Spitsbergen, an Arctic island near the north pole where the namesake ghost town of Pyramiden is located.
Check out Jens Lekman's new Marcus Söderlund-directed video for the tune "Erica America". Also, Jens will be tour the states alongside Taken By Trees this fall -- dates here.
"Finders keepers" is the debut single from up-and-coming Swedish pop artist Miriam Bryant who was just picked up by .
I don't think I realized this track was never disseminated, but it's now been corrected -- stream/download Niels Nielsen's superb cover of "Mouthful of diamonds" by Phantogram right here.
Two long tracks of beautiful drone from my friend Johan G. Winther off his upcoming 10" "Dränkstenen/Vanmakten", due out soon via .
Göteborg-based experimental/dark music label is expanding beyond their existence as a cassette-only label with their very first set of vinyl releases which will feature LPs from Krökta Rum, The Copper Roof Houses and Blodvite. Details http://www.järtecknet.se/news.html
Paisley pop from Danish act The Boombox Hearts.
A buncha tracks from that split 7" series are now streaming at Bandcamp.
Thomas Ekelund of Trepaneringsritualen/Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words/ created a mix for the website Secret Thirteen featuring a bunch of stuff from his own label and back-catalog as well as a nice selection of quality industrial/darkwave/postpunk: http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-023-dead-letters-spell-out-dead-words/
will be putting out a new 7" from Stockholm heavy rockers Beast! featuring the a-side cut "Devil's throat" b/w "Buckle up". Expect an early August release, full pre-order details (and eventually samples?) are available here.
Swedish thrashers DS-13 played a reunion gig in their hometown of Umeå over the weekend. Also, from the same show, here's footage of Dennis Lyxzén celebrating his 40th birthday with a set of songs from his old bands.