Saturday was Record Store day and I spent the day doing a mini tour through the three most important record stores in Stockholm: Bengans, Pet Sounds (a favourite of Quentin Tarantino) and Record Hunter. Lots of acts played short sets in each store but I didn’t really have time or energy to stay and watch. [...]
Monthly Archives: april 2011
Air Waves – Knock Out
It’s intriguing how Air Waves’ extremely simplistic major chord progression on Knock Out, the standout from last year’s Dungeon Dots album, can strike such an emotional single chord inside of me. It’s a chord of depression-via-helplessness-gone-indifferent towards the state of things. The rest of the simple instrumentation around that brilliant chord progression is aptly kept [...]
Rainbow Arabia @ High Life, Debaser Slussen, Stockholm, April 14, 2011
Debaser Slussen is deserted like the desert of Arabia when I get in. Sahara, or whatever. Having booked the interesting LA wife-husband duo Rainbow Arabia, the dude-chick duo that run the tropical club High Life invited Stockholm to a party in true pre-summer spirit playing exotic stuff like the stuff you can check out on [...]
The Long Blondes – Once And Never Again
From devilish femme fatal seduction to… a slightly more joyous and… innocent… seduction. This song just baffles you with its jangly joy and hysteric euphoria, while the melody still injects a little drama. ”Nineteen! You’re only nineteen for God’s sake! Oh, you don’t need a boyfriend!” exclaims The Long Blondes’ lead singer Kate Jackson in [...]
Elektrochemie – You’re My Kind
You’re My Kind oozes with drug-addled menace. Caitlin Devin is a femme fatale seducing its victim: you, the listener. Try resisting the lines ”Covet me. You’re my kind”. It starts from a quiet low, a throbbing bass drum merely pumping its addictive venom into your veins from the very start. Not to mention the synth [...]
