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The Week That Was III

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Whoa, time flies. As becomes extra obvious when it’s time (all the time!) for another episode of this little series.
This is what the third Week That Was was:


jj’s ‘no one can touch us tonight‘

Gothenburg duo jj pushed back the release of their new album, jj no4, but gave us two two brand new songs to ease the wait. You can download them from the Sincerely Yours site for free or you can order one of the 10 CD copies they have made, each with a unique sleeve handmade by the band and Malin Bernalt.
The physical release will set you back though, €100 / 1000 SEK to be precise.


Team Rockit 7″
The same label also put out a 7″ by new signing Team Rockit. Team Rockit is produced by the male half of above-mentioned jj and I can’t decide if it’s despite of or because it is rap in Swedish on top of a euro beat that it sounds so very Sincerely Yours… Download the songs for free here.

 

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Loney Dear shared this very pretty “liveish version from forthcoming album summer/fall 2011″.

 

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Check out this beautiful video for Stockholm duo I Break Horses song Hearts. The video is directed by Alex Southam, the band is signed to Bella Union and to quote the band, their album is coming out “sometime around summer”…

 

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On the subject of videos, Picture “works as a truck operator in a liquor store” and this video, by Sebastian Rozenberg, is for the song Heaven 7. You can get the mp3 here.

 

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Sebastian Rozenberg also did the above video for Testbild’s song Kattsand which is taken from the new, their sixth, album, Barrikad, which comes out on May 28 on Kalligrammofon.

Get to know fine Swedish record label Hybris – home of Korallreven, Juvelen, Jonathan Johansson, Familjen and many more, over at svenskmusik.org where they have been chosen Label Of The Month.

 

Amanda Mair, the latest, and probably youngest, signing to Labrador (whom I mentioned here) did TV4 Nyhetsmorgon today. It sounded and looked like this (can’t embed, sorry).

In case you missed the last paragraph in my previous post, here comes the last in this one:
Another fine Swedish label, Häpna, has just put out the first album by Ohayo, a band that consists of some of Sweden’s finest musicians (in my humble opinion). Order it from their site (and read more about them) or have a listen to The State We’re In on Spotify.

xx

Lisa Milberg

May 16, 2011

Gone fishing

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Stockholm Public Library, photo by Holger Ellgaard

I was born and raised on the corner of Odengatan and Sveavägen in Stockholm.
On the other three corners of that crossing was a big bank, Hard Rock Café and Stockholm Public Library.

It is very central is my point.

I hardly know any other people who are from Stockholm in that very literal sense. Usually people grew up in the suburbs – even if I do have the occasional friend who is from the southern part of town (Söder). Most people I know though are from smaller cities and moved to Stockholm when they finished school, when they realized they were gay or goth, liked pop music a lot, wanted to work in advertising, or just generally could make their own decisions.

So, I’m not all that familiar with the countryside (and even less so with the outskirts of Stockholm).
Growing up my friends would tease me, they’d wonder how – or more to the point, where – I had learned how to ride a bike or say I couldn’t tell a park from a car park.
It’s no coincidence my band is called The Concretes.

I did see nature though, my family has a cottage in Västmanland and also each summer in my childhood I’d go to summer camp for three weeks so that my parents could get some space. But each summer I would come back, and stand outside our building breathing in the fumes from the cars.
I loved the fumes, they smelled like home.

Having said all that I’ve become almost worryingly keen on nature recently. I wanna be outdoors, walk in the woods, potter in the garden, lie under a starlit sky, go swimming in cold lakes, pick lingon berries and make my own jam.

That (somewhat superficial..) idealization of nature always makes me think of Dungen.
Stockholm vs nature.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N9jgFzlabg
Dungen, Stadsvandringar, 2002.

I am up in that cottage of ours now. With five friends and food for twelve.
And yesterday, late at night when the moon had disappeared behind the fir trees and we were sat in front of the fireplace, we put on The State We’re In (<–Spotify), the brand new (and first) album by Swedish super group Ohayo.

I can recommend it.

 

Lisa Milberg

May 14, 2011