The amazing Waterflower returns with a new video. The Latvian forests and beaches are lovely, and they form the backdrop to Sabine Moore’s vision. The music is daring and catchy, as usual with this project.
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Sweden’s Kite return with a magnificent new song. Debuted at their recent Dalhalla show, “Glassy Eyes” is a minor key tear-jerker. It is also begging for a remix as a trance anthem.
This is the live version. The studio version is being released as a vinyl 7″, coupled with “Losing” (featuring Anna von Hausswolff and Henric de la Cour).
The Ändå approach music with a sense of humour as strong as their sense of melody. The Swedish supergroup – reduced to a duo since the departure of Anna Öberg – have issued what the press release describes as their final hit. Not the “final hit” of Trainspotting but the last song to come from their rural base. The press material also claims that Simon Napier-Bell has backed the track. Is it true? Everything is possible, but no one can be sure that what Captain Karl Gasleben and Zac O’Yeah are offering isn’t parody. It is, as always, solid state entertainment.
The excellent new album from Lucifer’s Aid has dropped with a bang. Destruction features ten potential singles, but our favourite candidate is this track.
“Obsession” brings the EBM point-and-thrust sequences and beats right up to date. Calle Nilsson’s growl has something of Cryo’s insistence about it, which is a good thing.
In normal years, the transition of foliage from rich greens to burned orange and gold occurs over a period of weeks; turning the trees into the colours of the Sun before the darkness really sets in.
This is no ordinary year. The havoc caused by the relentless pursuit of profits has put the forests on a different schedule. Reset your mental calendar with this offering from Nille Nyc. The Danish chanteuse returns for the changing of the season with an elegant, infectious piece, accompanied by Kristian Gaarskjær on guitar.
The impossible beauty of Lau Nau’s work combines water from many wells: womanhood, motherhood, the sea, isolation, togetherness, Polar light, Northern darkness… In her work, the inheritances of the Finnish archipelago and forest take human shape and are relayed through magical resonances.
“Nukahtamislaulu” means “Lullaby” in Finnish, but the first track from the forthcoming Lau Nau album reminds us that adults need soothing, too.
Myrkur returns with a new album, Spine, on 20 October 2023. “Mothlike” is the second single from the album, and it comes with a video by David Pitt.
Amalie Bruun’s last album, Folkesange, represented the Danish artist’s connections to traditional folk song, but her black metal sound seems to have returned. Capable of stirring emotion with the lightest of touches and the heaviest of winds, Bruun’s voice works powerfully with either style. Still working through the experience of becoming a mother, she has birthed Spine in Sigur Ros’ Iceland studio; unleashing storms of emotion that Jonsi rarely gets to express himself.
From the City of Angels comes a devilishly good EP by Die Sexual. The duo of Anton and Rosselinni Floriano have shaped their debut release with a deft club-friendly touch. It helps that Anton has been honing his craft as half of Black Light Odyssey, which has an official remix of Depeche Mode (“Oh Well”) to it’s credit, as well as unofficial remixes and covers.
Here’s a piece of trivia: Where was the last ever Fad Gadget performance? The answer is: the Swedish Alternative Music Awards in Gothenburg. It was a tragedy to lose Frank Tovey, but it was not accidental that the promoters of the legendary Romo Night had pulled him across the North Sea for a show. They know how to respect their elders in the Nordic music scene.
So it is that a Lustans Lakejer shirt plays a prominent role in this video from Strange Tales. Sweden’s answer to Duran Duran is still playing shows, but respect where it is due. That isn’t to say that Strange Tales are newcomers to the scene – the band was first active in the period, 1984-1987, but it was only in 2020 that they returned.
The band is made of up of:
- Karl Johan ”Kalle” Larsson – composer, lead vox, backing vox
- Tobbe Lander – composer, synths
- Jonas Berg – composer, synths
There is an album on the way. Untold will include this single, “Somebody Else” – which gives good impressions, and not only because we love a good LL promo shirt.