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Faye: Water Against The RocksBUY HERE With her recent pop release, Swedish artist, Faye (aka Fanny) carries a fluid high note from mid track to the last deep beat as her filtered vocals stretch into controlled belting while overlapping electro crescendos. “Water Against The Rocks” (Best Fit Recordings) fulfills a layered flirtation and chill between seamless bass and feminine [...]
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JJ: High SummerBUY HERE Joakim Benon and Elin Kastlander bring Sweden’s Midsummer to our music summer with their “High Summer” (Secretly Canadian) in a distilling vocal commitment wavering between a combination of Pan’s Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete, “Mercedes Lullaby”) and a less polite Ben Gibbard. JJ has been hurling glow-tronic pop fists since the early 90s under Gothenburg indie label, Sincerely [...]
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The Touch: SermonSwedish avante-pop just upped the rent for its roommate minimalist as The Touch garnish their sound forward experiments with Sermon. Released last year
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Iamamiwhoami: GoodsBUY HERE In what feels like an austere sacredness, numerics, alphabets and small animals are the goods of the recent musical installment, Kin (Cooperative Music), by the elusive identity of Iamamiwhoami aka, Jonna Lee (self-produced w/ Claes Björklund). Adhering to her unannounced appearances and “who am I” image,
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Hortlax Cobra: Stinging NettlesLikely for its brevity, or perhaps because it is merely obsolete, or, for the magic in the snap and pulse of Swedish collage-pop that “Stinging Nettles” is on track repeat. Despite his latest buzz track “Berlin”, John Eriksson, aka Hortlax Cobra, reeled us back to his early days with “Stinging Nettles,” a weighted compilation of mastered drum [...]
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Wild At Heart: DarlingBUY HERE At the altitude of beat brilliance and lo-fi pop-tronica, Stockholm-based Wild At Heart (WAH) launches an unfulfilled love story in their latest single, “Darling.” The track, produced by The Sound of Arrows, carries underlying tones of MGMT, noting their cover of “Electric Feel” in 2008 (Ministry of Sound), which brought about widespread