Country and folk underwent a kind of revival around the turn of the decade, as younger musicians started to bring a new authenticity to the genre after years of it being locked in tacky, clichéd stagnancy. Lissie, full name Elisabeth Corrin Maurus, was at the forefront of that movement with her debut album Catching a […]
Five years between albums seems like a long time, doesn’t it? Well, it is. Although it’s easier to forgive someone when they’re Justin Timberlake. One of the most popular R&B/pop artists of his time, the 37-year-old Timberlake returned from the dark of the forest, as he released his fifth album, Man of the Woods, in […]
Perhaps the most popular name in music right now, 22-year-old Post Malone followed up his 2016 debut album Stoney, with the critically acclaimed and top-selling Beerbongs and Bentley’s (2018), released in April. The album broke Spotify’s first-day streaming record and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. The “Rockstar” singer provides hip-hop beats and […]
Hey Elbow made their name with their debut album Every Other, which was packed with sweeping, epic art-pop that made its way into a lot of people’s end-of-year lists in 2015. It also sent the band on tour around Europe and the US, which meant that it has taken Julia Ringdahl, Ellen Petersson and Liam […]
This summer, it’s time to take the lush jazz of Fasching out from their concert hall and into the open at Vitabergsparken. They’re organising a special, two-act show in the park at the end of August, a feast for nature and jazz lovers alike. Opening on the day is Ann-Sofi Söderqvist and her Ann-Sofi Söderqvist […]
Popaganda returns in August, and after booking from the second tier of British indie bands last year with The Vaccines, they’ve upgraded this year with the genuine class of Franz Ferdinand. The Scottish art-rock gang aren’t, debatably, even the main draw here – Veronica Maggio, Tove Styrke, Little Dragon, First Aid Kit and Jenny Wilson […]
As someone who identifies both as queer and Christian, and hailing from the musical heartland of Memphis Tennessee, Julien Baker is often pitched as the voice of a new generation of musicians from the American South. But she wouldn’t have gotten to that position if she didn’t have songs, and those she has in abundance […]
Usually, when an artist disappears from the solo scene for eight years, it means their career is over. Although few artists are Sweden's own José González. The native of Gothenburg released In Our Nature in September 2007, which reached number two on Sverigetopplistan, this was his last solo album before he released Vestiges and Claws in 2015. During […]
Soccer Mommy is another of the artists to emerge from the depths of Bandcamp with a guitar and an album’s worth of jangling indie pop. But what makes Sophie Allison stand out from her contemporaries, who can sometimes lean too hard into messy-hair twee, is a sense of real rawness. Take the opening line from […]
Iceage have lived many lives since they emerged in 2011 as cold, industrial brutalists on their debut album New Brigade. They expanded their stylistic range on the follow-up You’re Nothing, and reinvented themselves as Nick Cave heirs and scribbled poetry dark romantics on their sweeping third album Plowing Into The Field Of Love. On their […]
With his hit song, Panda featured on Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo in 2016, the career of Desiigner got off to a quick start. The aforementioned song reached number one on Billboard charts. At just 19, he was among the most popular rappers in the industry. He released his first mixtape New English in June 2016. Desiigner has […]
A Canadian rapper is coming to Stockholm and no, it's not Drake. It's Tory Lanez. The 25-year-old first gained popularity with his 2014 mixtape, Lost Cause and continued his rise with his debut album I Told You in 2016, which reached as high as number two on some music charts. Lanez mixes his style between Rap and […]
On her debut EP Away For All Time, Many Voices Speak’s Matilda Mård showed herself to be a master of cinematic melancholy, sadness rendered with touching grace and elegance. This talent culminated in her covering Blue Moon, probably the ultimate example of the genre. She released her debut album Tank Town at the end of August, […]
Lykke Li is probably still at the top of the table for ‘making music that makes misery sound beautiful’, but Hater have been running her hard over the past couple of years for the title. The four-piece are back with a new album, Siesta, this autumn, and new single It’s So Easy is the first track out of […]
A few months ago, we wondered exactly what Héloïse Letissier was up to. The superstar behind Franco-pop geniuses Christine and The Queens had only given a hint of an upcoming album (her first since 2016’s Chaleur Humaine, originally released in France in 2014, put her in the musical big leagues), a poster with the “-tine […]
When Lykke Li returned this summer, possibly motivated by Sarah Klang’s challenge to her title as Sweden’s saddest popstar, she made sure not to do things by half, hence the title of her new album, So Sad, So Sexy. But while the sadness remained, she’d updated her sound, moving away from the old-school acoustic pop […]
Norwegians Highasakite were always pop, but always a band. Now, pared down to a duo after the release of their dark 2016 album Camp Echo, Ingrid Helene Håvik and Trond Bersu are embarking on a new adventure. The debut single of the new era, 5 Million Miles indicated that they were aiming down the throats […]
MØ’s journey from teenage punk playing at squat raves around Europe to major label-signed popstar has been one of the more curious narratives in music over the last few years. After releasing an album of heavy, rough-edged art pop called No Mythologies To Follow in 2014, her career pivoted around one song, the monster hit […]
Finish pop auteur Jaakko Eino Kalevi has been absent from the solo album game since 2015’s self-titled record, but now he’s finally back. He made his return in August with Emotions In Motion, a brisk, slick synth-pop track, and followed it up with People In The Centre Of The City. His new album Out Of […]
