Hardly surprising that Wichita Linemen sought to change their name to Amandine given that Fat Cat Records were sniffing around. Really wouldn't have looked that good to be saluting the competition. They come from a Swedish outpost but theirs is a sound that is rooted in the Americas. A pretty odd state of affairs but the fruits of their labour is a series of beautifully turned out melodies that hint at Midlake and other contemporary masters of melancholy. It probably won't cure your aching waistline but my does it attend to heads in a distressed state of mush. KD [...]
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We know you like everything in bunches, and this week's Weekly Download will give you a high dose of indie rock and electronica. Our feature this week is The Mary Onettes with their track "Love's Taking Strange Ways". Amandine fooled us. He sure sounds like Matt Pond PA . Lots of dance tracks on here from Baker , Feed Me (under Dead Mau5 's label) remixed by Castilian and lastly Michael Woods altered by ErA! . There's some good dancey / trancey stuff here. [...]
Amandine return after a five year gap with the first fruits from their new self-titled album which was released with a whisper this past Thursday, March 1. Amandine is a bold step forwards from the group's 2007 sophomore album Solace In Sore Hands . A quiet understated gem of immense proportions, Solace saw the Swedish based outfit - led by Olof Gidlöf - blend obvious Americana references with the natural surroundings of their homeland; thus creating the aural equivalent of a warm and tender embrace. 'Redemption' takes the blueprint of Solace In Sore Hands [...]
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Woot! Part three of the a series I have going on record labels ( part 1 , part 2 ). This time we have the ever impressive "FatCat Records" from Brighton (and Brooklyn). FatCat Records is pretty much an "ahead of the curve" indie label with a few great "straight ahead" indie artists. If you are a bit sketchy on what I am trying to say, think of starting at Animal Collective and move towards Frightened Rabbit. See, now you [...]
I know it's maybe a month away or less, but imagine a fierce autumn night when the winds blow cold and hard. You come into a warm house and sit down in your favourite sofa and long for summer. But when you listen to the melancholic and beautiful melodies from Amandine your thoughts just stop wandering away and you start enjoying the present. With a mix of Swedish folk and americana arrangements, edged by vocals not far away from José González , Amandine brings impressions and warmth that digs deep into my soul. [...]
My love for Swedish music is well known by now. So I really appreciated Zeugolator who pointed out an amazing band from the north, Amandine (twice, here and here). Amandine are from the town of Sandviken and have already released two full albums, This is Where our Heart Collide back in 2005 and Solace in Sore Hands last year. Both of them are on Fat Cat label (the label with favorites such as
You Should Know Olof Gidlof and John Andersson formed their country-folk inspired band Amandine in the small Swedish town of Sandviken, and while their sound is most fundamentally based on elements of Swedish folk music and traditional Americana, you can still hear the atmospheric touch of their labelmates Sigur Ros in their music (both bands are on FatCat Records). The band has grown sonically over their relatively short-lived existence. While folk music is the foundation beneath their house of sound, behind those wonderfully picked banjo [...]
14.03.2008 | nach einigen alben und ep´s erscheint - pünktlich zum tourstart - am 21.03 die digitale single "silence of a falling star" auf [url= http://fat-cat.co.uk]fatcat records[/url]. auf diesem melancho ...
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Instead of promoting an artist or band, I've decided to promote something different for a change. And if you're one of those readers that only comes here for downloading MP3s, I urge you to sacrifice some minutes and read the text below. Thank you! This is a posting for a good cause! It's about something that most of you can do; it's pretty simple, and it's completely free! All you need is a bit of time, and good health. This is about donating blood. I have a [...]
Comforting ballads of the American West from a group of accomplished Swedish musicians (who else?)
Parce qu'il arrive que trois lignes suffisent. Parce qu'on s'en voudrait de ne pas en parler sans pour autant en savoir plus que ça, voilà le Vide-Poches, une jolie petite boîte où on met plein de petites choses à écouter... Amandine - Faintest of Sparks . Il sera difficile de prétendre que cette bande de nordiques a inventé la poudre. Si quand Sufjan Stevens dépouille ses compositions pour ne plus laisser en surface qu'un banjo et sa voix tremblotante, on se dit qu'il s'agit justement d'une volonté d'aller (...)
Amandine is practically the reason I started Swedesplease. I began Swedesplease because I was astonished by the amount of rootsy music sung in English coming out of Sweden. Somehow the swedes just seem to get the barren, lovelorn, and tragic sound that comprises the best of the Americana genre just right. Amandine's new record, Solace In Sore Hands , is out this week on Fat Cat Records. For some reason everyone's been posting the song "Secrets", I guess it's available free somewhere. For a change of pace here's "The Faintest Of [...]
A. A live Beirut Track HERE . B. 31knots fans run over to WOXY for some live radio tracks HERE now ! C. HEROES fans sprint over to HERE now! D. Let me tell you what I do and how I justify my downloading practices, then I will give you a present. Then you'll have to justify however you justify it.. I will download a full cd online and then later, pick up the vinyl release. [...]
The links to last Friday's Flashback files are now working again... get the tunes and your dancing shoes! Plague Of Angels has two new Idlewild -songs... thanks for that! Sweden's Amandine will release their new album soon, and we can already listen to a new song called Secrets . I think it's a great indie-pop-hymn. Download it here: Amandine - Secrets (MP3) I've written about Plastik before (read here), but Plastik are no longer Plastik . They [...]
Discography: THIS IS WHERE OUR HEARTS COLLIDE (Fat Cat - 2005), LEAVE OUT THE SAD PARTS [EP] (Fat Cat - 2006), WAITING FOR THE LIGHT TO FIND US [EP] (Fat Cat - 2006) Solo pochi giorni fa abbiamo parlato degli Amandine su queste pagine. Oggi vi proponiamo l'intervista al gruppo. La band nei giorni in cui ha risposto alle domande era impegnata proprio in Italia a promuovere il nuovo ep dal titolo "Waiting For The Light To Find Us", quindi quale occasione migliore per sapere, tra le altre cose, che ne [...]
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…poi mi sono deciso: ho preso quel vecchio avvitatore impolverato che riposava nel cassetto e mi sono infilato i guanti da lavoro. Ho soppalcato con un paio di tavole una parte della coscienza e sopra al legno ho disposto ordinatamente alcune sensazioni che appartengono a storie ormai logore e buie. Barattoli pieni di sugo compresso. Emozioni passate (in tutti i sensi). Poi il telefono si è messo a squillare. Ho sollevato la cornetta. Una voce dall’altro capo chiedeva se mi ero dimenticato di lei. Non ancora, gli ho risposto, ma non preoccuparti verrà il giorno. E ho messo giù. Ho [...]
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