"The Stars Above Looked So Bright And Green" by Swedish band Let's Say We Did is a play on opposites, a bittersweet tune that effortlessly blends joy and sorrow. Sunny pop melodies back pleasant, melancholy vocals. It's all a bit comforting, the sway that's borderline jangle yet contemporary to modern Swedish indie pop, the soft guitars and playful percussion, the harmony vocals that chime in during the chorus. Let's Say We Did is poised to release their sophomore LP, and this is its first single. [...]
It has been a while since we've had a round-up from round the web and our favourite blogs. These are some of the tunes that have been monopolising the MM stereo recently and should get your week off with a snap, crackle and pop! We have a new track from The Crocodiles with the snaking, noise-pop of Endless Flowers from forthcoming album of the same name and some more crunchy garage rock from the prolific Fresh & Onlys with new single I Would Not Know The Devil . Third up, is [...]
I've written about Let's Say We Did a couple of times before here on the blog. Then it was about their EP trilogy, where the last one was released about a year ago. I November they released their first full length album, an album where you will recognize about half of the songs from the the EP:s. Everything has a new production, though, with Pelle Gunnerfeldt behind the wheel, and I think that he's done a really good job at refining the band's nice, rough indie pop. The sound feels more open, with more depth and with [...]
Let's Say We Did esteve à espreita na periferia da cena musical sueca há alguns anos. Nascida das cinzas de projetos anteriores, a banda vem recebendo crescentes elogios de blogueiros ao redor do mundo por suas canções de refrãos fáceis de pegar, enraizadas em um indie rock de primeira. Os caras já foram comparados por aí com os trabalhos iniciais de Ryan Adams, com Pavement, com Silver Jews e com outras bandas suecas como Wannadies e Popsicle. As palavras acima não são minhas, saíram do Bandcamp da banda . Mas, não poderia ter escrito melhor. [...]
Già solo per il fatto di alludere nel nome a una canzone dei Silver Jews (o almeno così mi piace credere) gli svedesi Let's Say We Did mi stanno subito simpatici. Poi faccio partire questo loro album omonimo, uscito su Big Rig dopo alcuni ep, ed è come se ci conoscessimo da sempre. La prima impressione è che queste canzoni potrebbero essere la risposta scandinava, meno noise e più melodica, a certo revival Novanta delle ultime stagioni (Yuck in testa), vedi i ripetuti riferimenti a Teenage Fanclub, soprattutto nelle ballate in scaletta - un paio di [...]
RUSSIA : Big Echo Arktor - Pier ft. Didjelirium Раз в месяц тайный музыкальный альянс, состоящий из 36 музыкальных блогов со всего, собирается вместе, чтобы собрать гигантский сборник. Это что-то вроде ВТО, только без нарушений прав человека. 2012 год уже не за горами и давление подведения итогов чувствуется буквально в каждом mp3 файле. Русский выбор на этот месяц – работа Artkor, о которой я в деталях рассказывал в одном из [...]
Otra vez con algo de retraso, pero vamos ya casi es navidad! Esta es la última edición del Music Alliance Pact de este año, así que a disfrutar. En esta ocasión este humilde aporta cuenta con la participación de la increíble banda nacional Gris Volta. La tradición de las listas por final de año no se perderá, así que espero poder publicarlas como de costumbre el 31 de diciembre, stay tuned! Para descargar las 36 canciones en un único archivo, hacer click aquí . [...]
Presentamos la última edición del año del Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop, que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países, y de la cual Super45 forma parte desde hace más de 2 años. Destacamos este mes a Tío Lucho, banda que recientemente lanzó Innombrable , su nuevo álbum para el sello Cazador. CHILE : Super 45 Tío Lucho - [...]
SINGAPORE : I'm Waking Up To... Sonicbrat - Bed Of Forty Winks Sonicbrat is the enduring moniker of sound artist Darren Ng, whose work is characterised by an intricate tapestry of field recordings and found sounds, strung together by subtly processed acoustic instrumentation with a classical bent. Gentle, stirring and complex, Ng's music is the sort that invites itself into and comfortably inhabits one's imagination. His latest release, Hana, is his musing on the [...]
ROMANIA : Babylon Noise Absurdcus - Puppy Slippers Absurdcus is the solo project of Transylvanian bass player/multi-instrumentalist Laszlo Demeter. His music has been a continuous work in progress since 2003, when he first started recording bits and pieces under this pseudonym. His music stylistically ranges from alternative rock and funk to electronica and even metal. You can download his debut album here . [...]
MAP, eller Music Alliance Pact, er et samarbeid mellom musikkblogger fra hvert sitt land rundt omkring i hele verden. Det fungerer sånn at alle hver måned velger ut et band og en låt fra sitt eget land, og alt sammen samles opp og postes hos alle. Vårt bidrag denne måneden er Sunturns med låta "Hallelujah (Christmas Is Here!)". Klikk her for å laste ned alle 34 sangene i en fil NORWAY : Birds Sometimes Dance [...]
I didn't know what to get you for Christmas... so I came up with an idea. The Jukebox player on the right-hand side of this blog was launched 17 months ago and, since then, 39 people have paid £5 each to get a track on it for a month, raising a total of £180.06 (after PayPal took their cut). I pledged to use every donation "to support grassroots music" and now you're about to find out what I blew the budget on... I've been a huge fan of [...]
Dec 15, 2011, 3:00am
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Beinahe zwei Jahre hat es nun gedauert, bis wir den ersten Schweizer Mundart-Künstler beim Music Alliance Pact eingereicht haben. Es handelt sich um Alejandro Jiménez, der am 9. Dezember seine neue Platte "Nabelschau" veröffentlicht hat. SWITZERLAND : 78s Alejandro Jiménez - Die Fragestellung In Frage Stellen Alejandro Jiménez is actually more poetry slam than singer-songwriting. He also [...]
Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a .zip file of the whole 36-track compilation via MediaFire . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie The Empire Of The Moon - Transition The Empire Of The Moon is the new project of Juan Sábato, a former member of Brian Storming, a band that was featured [...]
Dance Macabre NEW ZEALAND : Einstein Music Journal The Eversons - I'm A Conservative Fronted by Mark Turner (ex-Little Pictures) and with Chris Young (Insurgents, No Aloha), Tim Shann and Blair Everson, The Eversons have a crisp, clear garage-rock vibe that strongly recalls Art Brut and American college rock with its undeniable [...]
Não há Júlia nem carjacking, por aqui. Há apenas o muito talento de João Correia (voz, guitarras, percussão) e Bruno Pernadas (guitarra). Depois de um ano após o lançamento do seu EP de estreia, com a ajuda de alguns amigos, este duo editou o seu álbum de estreia, "Parasol". A surpresa é grande e boa, tendo em conta os inúmeros projectos nacionais sem personalidade, que se limitam a pobres imitações de bandas estrangeiras do momento; muitas vezes, com a caricata característica de "cantarem" num inglês aprendido em sopas de letras. "Parasol" bronzeia e não provoca escaldões. [...]
Rjóminn tekur í desember mánuði í fyrsta skipti þátt í Music Alliance Pact en þar taka tónlistarblogg um allan heim sig saman og kynna tónlist frá hverju landi. Þessi gjörningur er orðinn nokuð þekktur og fá þeir listamenn sem valdir eru hverju sinn talsverða athygli í netheimum fyrir vikið. Fyrir íslands hönd í þetta skiptið er það góðvinur Rjómans, Ryan Karazija , eða Low Roar eins og hann kallar sig. Textinn er birtur eins og á ensku hjá flest öllum þátttakendum og mun Rjóminn gera það að þessu sinni. [...]
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