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“If the process of creating is stimulating then everything is beautiful.”
So reads the brief last.fm bio on Swedish pop/rock act, The Eyeshades. It’s a point of view that speaks to their music; bright, innocent, carefree, the quest for artistic expression seemingly more rewarding than the actual end product. Their tracks are simple, but have a [...]

Swedish producer Erik L is a sick master of soulful future beats. His compositions listen like a stack of funk records spliced, looped, slowed down and presented as sound collages from the far side of hip-hop. Atmospheric sounds echo the flow of guest rhymes across Northern Connection, Erik L’s recent collaboration with Detroit producer Illingsworth. [...]

While we were teenagers falling in love with My Bloody Valentine and Teenage Fanclub stateside, Swedes weren’t left out of dream pop and power pop’s paths, finding many of the same characteristics in the music of Popsicle, a four-piece act led by Andreas Mattsson who released several notable albums across the early ’90s (and later [...]

I don’t know why I didn’t post this sooner, I’ve watched the video above no less than 50 times in the past several weeks. CEO is new solo project of Eric Berglund from The Tough Alliance. I still can’t figure out why The Tough Alliance haven’t found larger fame. It seems they’re loved by anyone [...]

Indie pop is a genre that’s so easy for me to fall in love with, but unfortunately also so easy for me to forget about. The bad thing about listening to a lot of music across many genres is you tend to get stuck in one genre for awhile, latching heavily onto it and tuning [...]

I shared some of my first thoughts on Gothenburg quartet Makthaverskan’s demo material a couple months back. Their early work was admittedly quite rough and I think people probably brushed the group off, but I felt they had something special. I’ve been keeping an eye on the band since then, eager to see if my [...]

I realized I’ve been tossing the term Balearic around quite a bit lately without much preface. Balearic is a genre of electronic music that, as its name might suggest, originated in the Balearic island region, specifically, in the beach raves and nightclubs of Ibiza in the mid-90s. It’s also sometimes referred to as Baeleric beat [...]

While we haven’t done a formal post on Swedish Balearic pop disco duo Studio (yet), if you’re a fan of El Perro Del Mar, then you are probably acquainted with their name. Rasmus Hägg is one half of Studio and lent production duties to El Perro Del Mar’s newest release, Love is Not Pop. Hägg’s [...]