
A year end albums list is kind of a strange thing, especially when it's one person compiling it. Since this blog is a committe of one, it can become quite capricious. In all likelyhood I wrote about some records this past year that I was overtly enthusiastic about at the time. Now the end of the year rolls around and some of those records are not on the list. "What gives?" you might ask. It's hard to remember which label flew me to Tahiti and which one comp'd my CMJ this year, so I may have forgotten to include a [...]

Have you ever wished you could jetset back to 1964 and relive the bossa nova heyday? Or maybe you are a more practical dreamer and wish that the High Llamas still wrote pop songs. Maybe you just choose to sit at a Cafe Blue all day long and sip out of tiny cups while daydreaming about trips to Aja. Whatever the case, Sweden's Top Sound have got you covered with their debut album. It had been two years since the virtual single that they released on the Friendly Noise web site. [...]
Relatively new track/video from Top Sound that seems to have slipped through all the regular Swedish blog cracks. I like the slightly jangly Beach Boys vibe complete with soaring harmony vocals. "Your Summer Was Over In June" Bonus track: Francophile (via P4k ) Talk about slipping through the cracks; this video was put online in Nov 2009. Had I known at the time I would have made a big stink and demanded that you all check it out. Better [...]

Top Sound - A Matter of Precision Top Sound är en kvartett från Stockholm som bjuder på fin och lättsmält pop. I kväll spelar de på Club King Kong i Stockholm!
by kevin diamond As the heat burns us and boils our insides, we need a run through the sprinklers, or a bucket of ice water over the head to remind us that we're human and we're attached to this earth. The hype filter this week is designed to be that ice cold bath you are looking for. We start with Nude Beach's self-titled single, a slow burn of drum machine bass and snare, and reverb-laden vocals, with a singular guitar line fleshing out the [...]
![[MP3] New Top Sound: "A Matter of Precision" (finished version)](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1904271_lg.jpg)
Stockholm, Sweden's Top Sound have just released new single "A Matter of Precision" as a free download on Friendly Noise , along with a gorgeous French-sung B-Side, "Francophilie". Both tracks are sugary indie pop in its truest form - "A Matter of Precision" has a catchy, piano filled, electronic percussion/synth beat (with vocals that are, at times, eerily similar to Stars' Torquil Campbell's) while "Francophilie" starts off with handclaps and doesn't let up. The tunes have hit the airwaves before but in incomplete form - these are new and finished versions, so join me in listening while [...]
Digfi has a new live studio session posted with Stockholm-based act Top Sound : http://www.digfi.com/default.a spx?id=11960