It’s unfair to call MGMT’s new album Little Dark Age a ‘comeback’. After all, the duo’s 2010 album Congratulations might be their best, and their 2013 self-titled wasn’t bad either. But those were both weird records, and Little Dark Age is definitely the most conventionally listenable music they’ve made since they became monstrously big with their debut Oracular […]
Three years ago, Dolores Haze released debut album The Haze Is Forever as Stockholm’s coolest new punks, four kids barely out of school playing abrasive, fuck-you rock music. Three years on, things have changed a little. After recalibrating as a three-piece (due to losing a member to an alpaca farm obviously), they’ve expanded their sound from […]
There are many paths to pop stardom, but Tove Styrke’s took a little bit of a swing. The singer and musician initially came up through talent show Idol, and released a self-titled debut album back in 2010. But she then suffered from burn out and took some time off, before exploding back onto the scene […]
The Japanese House’s music is a tribute to carefully constructed, airy pop music. Amber Bain’s released a couple of EPs over the last few years, each consisting of origami-layered, flowing creations that sit on the border of mainstream pop and more house music leanings. She’s now dropped two singles in 2018, Lilo and Follow My […]
Joy never really slows down, but this winter she’s speeding up even more. She returned with a new single in October, Coin Collector (with Scam 3.14), which marked a career first for the artist – her first music in English. Coin Collector is a slick, exuberant piece of electro-pop that lets Joy’s natural charisma shine, […]
If Girl Band were the last great muscular rock band to emerge from the Irish scene, then Fontaines D.C. might just be poised to follow them. Their Buzzcocks-meets-The-Fall sound, all draped in a clear Dublin drawl, has seen them hit the international circuit this summer, playing European festivals, a KEXP live session and a tour […]
You might have noticed Portland rapper Aminé for the first time when he popped up with a verse on Lykke Li’s So Sad So Sexy track Two Nights this summer. Or it might have been when he broke through with debut single Caroline last year. Either way, he’s firmly made his mark at this point with […]
“The heart is the organ of desire”: so goes the line that opens Norwegian musician Farao, aka Kari Jahnsen’s, new album Puro-O, which came out late last year. That line works well as a postcard from the album’s world – its’s a journey through relationships, both of the present and the future, delivered with scientist’s […]
MANKIND’s combination of indie rock and brutal punk muscle hasn’t been heard from since 2017, when they released their EP Death. Now they’re on the way back, with a new single My Luck Will Change. To celebrate that, they’re playing a show with a packed bill at Debaser Strand, organised by rock club Garageland. Joining […]
What is neoclassical music? Well, it’s something that sounds a lot like Nils Frahm. The German composer’s long, lush, delicate compositions are creatures of the kind of intricate attention to detail and sound obsessiveness that defined classical, built from modern electronica. His latest album, 2018’s All Melody, is proving to be his most popular yet, […]
A former child acting star (with credits for both Disney and Nickelodeon) turned pop star, Hayley Kiyoko’s ownership of and pride in her LGBTQ identity has lead her fans to dub her ‘Lesbian Jesus’. Her main single, Girls Like Girls, features the line “Girls like girls like boys do – nothing new” and her activism […]
Two of the most popular names in hip-hop, Nicki Minaj and Future announced their joint tour, NickiHndrxx, recently and Stockholm is on the list for 2019. In just the last two years, Future has released three albums (Evol, Future and Hndrxx) and two mixtapes (Purple Reign and Super Slimy ft. Young Thug). While Minaj hasn't released an album […]
Last year marked the return of the legendary Neneh Cherry with a new album Broken Politics. As you can guess from the title, the new album is a political record, and she has described lead single Kong as a protest song against the injustices refugees are having to suffer, especially in the camp in Calais. “There […]
Two years ago in 2017, even you can even remember a time so long ago, Maggie Rogers played a Swedish show at Debaser Strand. Two years later, with her career having spent much of that time with its foot on the accelerator pedal, she’s stepped up to Berns. The American artist has just dropped her […]
Musical talents being discovered through Youtube and Soundcloud have become common in today’s music scene. But what about Vine? The six-second video app produced one of the most talented pop voices in recent memory. Shawn Mendes became an overnight sensation in early 2014 and is now enjoying a successful music career. And he isn't showing any mercy […]
The 90s was the era of Britpop, but Jason Pierce’s Spiritualized stood out from that crowd for producing music more sprawling, creative and compelling than any of his louder-shouting contemporaries could lay a finger on. His mad, tragic, beautiful masterpiece Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space is one of the decade’s best records, but […]
Icelandic trio Vök have just released their sophomore album In The Dark, which takes the smooth, airy dance that fuelled their debut album Figure, and reimagines and updates it into a more immediate pop sound, with bigger choruses and more accessible songs. Few bands hit the road as hard as them when they go on […]
After starting out as Clementine Creevy’s scrappy musical project when she was just 15, Cherry Glazerr have been through a lot for such a young band, with a shifting line-up and having found the time to already put out three albums. The latest, Stuffed and Ready, sees Creevy in a mood somewhere between feral and […]
Erik Lundin has been a household name in Sweden since he released his EP *Suedi* in 2015, which told the story of a young black man growing up in modern Sweden in a manner that ranged between elegant and incendiary, but was always compelling. He went on to win ‘Årets Textförfattare’ (Lyricist of the Year) […]
Bedroom pop is one of the musical movements of our time, and when Norwegian Jakob Ogawa first emerged he was definitely grouped in with that wave, for this hazy productions released via Soundcloud as much as anything else (a collab with Clairo, one of the genre’s other stars, also helped). Since then his sound has […]
