Category: Swedish Music

First Watch: Icona Pop ‘I Love It’

It’s those two cheeky Swedish geniuses. They’re back with one catchy piece of electropop that’s been on my iPod all week…

Watch out.. Andreas Moe will take you over…

I’ve made no secret of how much I like Andreas Moe. He’s making huge impact over in native Sweden for his effortlessly catchy and beautifully stylish songs. Anyway, he’s finally coming over to the UK to plug his sounds via his new debut EP Collecting Sunlight on June 25th, and so it feels only right to give it a mention.

Having played in several bands in Sweden, and having leant his voice to a number of dance tracks, he signed his first UK publishing deal in January 2011. His collaborations already include DJ Avicii (Fade into Darkness) and John de Sohn (Long Time).

But he still describes his sound as being The Script meets Robyn meets Prince: “electronic but organic.” Check out here.

Sometimes you enjoy a song more when you don’t understand the lyrics…

I’m a firm believer that you can fall in love with songs sung in different languages. I like to make up my own interpretations of lyrics in these cases, and that ends up making these songs even more personal to me than they were probably intended to be. This is one such song. It drums up images of church, sounds of hymns and general warmth. I like it.

If you’re looking for a nice Nordic pop album to buy…

… give this one a try. They’re one of my favourite Scandi duos and they deserve world domination. Here’s a bit of blurb… ‘

Wild arctic nature. Big city pulse. Fearless synthesizers, miles and miles of reverb, and delicate rhythms. Delicious swedish indietronica from Stockholm by way of San Francisco and the cold northern regions of Sweden. Long nights of dancing and long hikes in the mountains.

Single UR Road feels like a long fun summer distilled into four minutes of sweet electropop with bouncy hooks and lush vocals. There’s even some whistling in there as well.

Sameblod is one of Swedens most promising and exciting new acts – Frederick and Mikael in Sameblod have received lots of blog-attention, even more plays on Soundcloud and hopefully this is just the beginning.

Sameblod release their debut album april 20th through Norwegian indie label Riot Factory.