Nästa vecka, 12 maj, släpps Club 8:s nya album The People's Record . Först singeln från denna skiva är Western Hospitality och nu har den även fått en video. En fin video, men det är lite konstigt med den halvsterila miljön tillsammans med låtens rytm, även om det jämnar ut sig lite mot slutet... När jag hörde låten Western Hospitality fick jag intrycket att den handlade om uppror mot något. Men det var inte tydligt mot vad. Jag/vi ville göra en video med ett tyst och lågmält uppror, som var politisk men på [...]

Here's my weekly collection of five songs that I'm currently loving, a one-off postponement of SOIWT's London focus: The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio The National have long been one of those bands who earn critical acclaim and boast devout, salivating fans, yet never seem to translate that into mass popularity. Perhaps new album, High Violet, their fifth, will change that. First impressions suggest it's more dynamic than previous records, especially based on Bloodbuzz Ohio, an intense, cacophonous song that's over far too quickly, like a thrilling firework display. Telling a [...]

Mith Griffiths : "Consumerism" Αν ζούσε σήμερα ο Καραβάτζιο θα ψώνιζε στο σούπερ μάρκετ. Θα ήταν το ίδιο μελοδραματικός και Kitsch; Δεν το ξέρω αυτό. Αυτό που φοβάμαι είναι το εξής. Δεδομένου ότι το σώμα μας αποτελείται κατά τα 70% από νερό, κανονικά και τα ψώνια μας θα έπρεπε να έχουν την ίδια [...]

Pallers - The Kiss [mp3] Swedish electronic duo Pallers left us pining for more when they released their debut single "Humdrum" back in 2008. Now they have finally re-emerged with a new track, "The Kiss". The single will be released May 26th on Labrador . Additionally, Pallers have remixed the current Club 8 single "Western Hospitality". You can grab that track below. Club 8 - Western Hospitality (Pallers remix) [mp3]

This Saturday we find ourselves with a pretty wide array of music. Today's tracks include Nantes-based trio Smooth , Swedish pop duo Club 8 , Jason Schwartzman 's solo project Coconut Records , Peruvian electronic group Novalima , Baltimore's Beach House , the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the first song off the Basque band Delorean 's Subiza , which was released last month, an unexpected Paris / Atlanta connection, and a MGMT cover ( and I liked it ). Smooth - [...]
Swedish electropop duo Pallers , soon to release the single "The Kiss" on Labrador, has described their music as: "Dance music for the lazy, the blazers and for the slightly depressed". Here they transform the Afrobeat of the track "Western Hospitality" from indie outfit Club 8 into a: "synth-drenched, dubby excursion. A bright psychedelic trip extracting colours from everywhere". Club 8 - Western Hospitality (Pallers remix) (YSI) Club 8 - Western Hospitality (Pallers remix) (drop.io)
Another day another pop album from the Swedish duo Club 8. With the kind of music that the duo have been making I would have never thought of their music to be "remixable." But with tracks from their previous album The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming having been remixed and sounding perfectly fine, [...]

To quote my dear friend Clay Davis from HBO's The Wire : "Sheeeeeeee-it." That, along with an ear-to-ear smile, is really the only appropriate reaction to Club 8 's new single "Western Hospitality." The Swedish duo—who've been around since the mid-90s—shake things up for their May 12th release The People's Choice , channeling everything from disco to tribal music, all connected by an insanely giddy guitar riff. And it works, extraordinarily well. Club 8 - "Western Hospitality" [...]

('Harlequin's Carnival' por Joan Miró) To kick this week off we have a pretty diverse mix, a few remixes (Obscuresounds & Marky), a track from my new favourite Northern Irish band, Two Door Cinema Club , the best track song off FM Belfast's How To Make Friends , and an energic swedish tune courtesy of Club 8 . Phoenix - '1901 (Obscuresounds Remix)' Sneaky Sound System - 'When We Were Young (Juan McLean Remix)' [...]

Club 82 s new album The People's Record , coming out on May 12, is a treat for the oncoming summer. Take it with you for the lying about in the park watching kites! The band is Swedish, comprising of Karolina Komstedt & Johan Angergård. I actually like the rest of the album better, but here's "Western Hospitality". Before I looked them up I thought they were Brazilian, and if I paid no attention to the lyrics, which is in English, I'd think this song was a vintage Disco number from a 70's Bollywood movie. Not kidding, check out disco [...]

Club 82 s new album The People's Record , coming out on May 12, is a treat for the oncoming summer. Take it with you for the lying about in the park watching kites! The band is Swedish, comprising of Karolina Komstedt & Johan Angergård. I actually like the rest of the album better, but here's "Western Hospitality". Before I looked them up I thought they were Brazilian, and if I paid no attention to the lyrics, which is in English, I'd think this song was a vintage Disco number from a 70's Bollywood movie. Not kidding, check out disco [...]
There's enough great music on the cutting room floor this time around to make a whole nother show. (Yes, I just wrote "whole nother." People say it all the time, way more than "NEW-kye-ler," and yet that's in the dictionary now as an acceptable pronunciation of nuclear. Maybe it should have an apostrophe. "Whole 'nother?" Yeah, that's better.) (artist - song - album + purchase link :: extra info) Aloha - Moonless March - Home Acres Band Of Horses - [...]
If you're yearning for spring—or, at least, the thought of it—then Club 8's Latin American-inflected "Western Hospitality" should help alleviate the winter blues while awaiting the real thing. Before recording their upcoming seventh LP, The People's Record (Labrador), the veteran Swedes traveled to Brazil and listened to a plethora of '70s-era West African records for inspiration, [...]

There's plenty of new music that hasn't made its way into posts but is worth a listen. Here's the first in a occasional series of posts to round up stuff I meant to write about earlier. Moon Duo (Sanae Yamada and Erik Johnson of Wooden Shjips) released the four-song album Escape last month. These guys sound a lot like Wooden Shjips (heavy psychedelic). Sweden's Club 8 is generating a lot of buzz with its electro-pop single Western Hospitality in advance of its album The People's Record (out in May). [...]

Club 8 are an indie pop duo from Stockholm, Sweden consisting of Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård. Someone categorized them as "anorak pop." While I have no idea what the hell that means, I can guarantee that this song is cheery in the best way. Rumbling percussion, sassy guitar, hushed Swedish vocals….ahhhhh. Club 8 - "Western Hospitality" — Basil

Tonight I hit the kitchen to compile the second FensePost podcast, or FenseCast, while cooking up one of my signature dishes: spicy steak enchiladas with homemade sauce. For desert, a delicious slice of gluten free cake courtesy Andi (the girlfriend), whose photo you can see above. Unlike the first podcast, this one had a range of bands that stemmed into several genres rather than focusing on garage rock and pop. Within I reminisce on one of my favorite bands of all time, occasionally hover around bedroom pop, and pass along one imperative ingredient in my homemade enchilada [...]

. Ο καημένος ο Hippo Litto έχει τρελαθεί με το μοντέλο GINA της BMV! Έτσι όπως είναι φτιαγμένο από ύφασμα, οι δίπλες του θυμίζουν στον αγαπημένο μου ιπποπόταμο τη γενιά του. Ευτυχώς το πιό flexible αυτοκίνητο στον κόσμο δεν θα βγει στην αγορά αλλά θα μπει κατ΄ευθείαν στο μουσείο της BMV. Πρόκειται για κούκλα πάντως όπως φαίνεται και στο video . Ακολουθεί συλλογή για οδηγούς μπέμπας. kisses : bermuda [...]

Photograph by Yuula Benivolski Bruce Peninsula may not have made the shortlist for the 2009 Polaris Music Prize as we would have liked , but that doesn't change the fact that their debut album A Mountain Is a Mouth is one of the more memorable Canadian folk albums of recent years. Deservedly so, they're some of the first stars to come from the loosely-affiliated collective growing around Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park, who may give that other Toronto social scene a run for their money in the coming years. After the band concludes their American tour [...]

*Club 8-Western Hospitality ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Casper Bangs-Kiss Me Goodnight ( mp3 ) ( web ) *The Tenant-The Stranger ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Capywara-The Wimp ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Shark Speed-Killing Kind ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Dum Dum Girls-Heart Of Stone (The Raveonettes Cover) ( mp3 ) ( web ) *Class Actress-Careful What You Say ( mp3 ) ( web ) *RJD2-A Shining Path (Alan Wilkis Remix) ( mp3 ) ( web )
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The Sweet Serenades are, well, just that; a sweet compilation of all things happy or sad, in mourning or bliss. This Swedish duo look as though they could be pounding lagers amongst muscly, flanneled woodsmen, but damned if they wouldn't hesitate to break into a beautiful ballad at any moment. "Die Young", from their amazing album Balcony Cigarettes , is a beautiful track serenading (pun, intended) one of the greatest yet most heartbreaking mistakes human beings can make: the one night stand. With guest vocals from Club 8's Karolina Komstedt, this tremendous little [...]