Adeena consistently delights me with her style of polished Scandi dance pop, and this release is no different.
”I Ain’t Like That is a song written from a state beyond our insecurities. It invites you to feel good about yourself and to embrace your own force instead of meeting other people needs. It’s a tune for you to dance into spring and feel yourself completely.’’
“I wrote it from my personal experience from working a lot in the States and being apart from my then girlfriend, but now wife. It’s inspired by the feelings that come from spending a lot of time away from each other and waking up each morning without another day seeing her.”
Polished beats, infectious hooks and a crystal-smooth vocal… Another week, another stellar Swedish talent emerges!
Taken from the forthcoming EP ‘Timing’.
Brother Leo’s latest release now comes with visuals directed by Sashinski and was filmed in England’s Southend, shortly before lockdown began.
“Me and Sasha wanted to create a dark and restrained visual for Hallelujah, that in a symbolic way expressed the struggle in trying to make peace with the painful fact that certain things just can’t be fixed, no matter how hard you try.”
“Where do feelings go when they don’t belong? When they’re not invited or when they are left out? When you push them away? I guess I’m still looking for the answer, but I don’t think you get rid of emotions just by trying not to feel them and I hope I haven’t ever made my feelings feel lonely by not recognising them. I guess this is a song to all the feelings that ever felt left out and made us feel left without within. Where do lonely feelings go?”
Finessed Swedish pop with strong elements of RnB.
“I wrote it when i lived in London and felt a little lost and scared about the changes that had just taken place. Now when I look back – I guess it was all good stuff that I was afraid to lose.”
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Coming from the same incredible Swedish label behind Molly Hammar and Frida Sundemo, songwriter Aron Blom returns today with his third solo release, ‘Water’.
It’s a song with a theme common to most of us, being that awkward time in a relationship when two people start to realise each other’s flaws. Delivered with a subtle sense of intensity and anxiety, this is Swedish power-pop at it’s finest.
“I’ve heard that there’s a second wind to every relationship, about a year and a half into it, when the infatuation settles and we start to see each other in all our flaws and imperfections. It’s about assessing the situation and, by doing that, then understanding that we’ve truly and madly fallen for the other person. Most of us did just fine before that other person ambled into our lives. But still somehow every atom in our body suddenly craves that other person to the point of it becoming an absolute necessity. To the point of it becoming water.”
It is almost impossible not to feel good listening to SWAYDAY’s new release. Swedish pop at its most infectious.
”’Talking To The Moon’ is about all your inner demons that you’re always struggle with. In our case it’s about not feeling comfortable with opening up fully to a real person, so you turn to the moon (like a metaphor of talking to nothingness) and that you never get an answer.”
Another showstopper from Swedish pop-RnB powerhouse, Molly Hammar.
“I think everyone struggles with loneliness. Sometimes you love it, sometimes you hate it. ‘‘Alone’ is about someone trying to escape loneliness and hurting people along the way. If this song can become a wake-up call for someone to deal with their emotional life better, or if someone can find comfort in gaining some perspective in themselves I have achieved my goal with “Alone”.
“’Hallelujah’ is about broken illusions in a broken world. It’s that moment of realisation when you know you have to make peace with something that just can’t be fixed. I wouldn’t call myself religious, but this song came out almost like a prayer. It was a cry for help in a hopeless situation. In the end religion didn’t save me, but neither did the shrink or the pills that he gave me. This song gave me an escape and some kind of piece. Like so many times before, music was the answer.”
A fresh face from Sweden, fusing indie with some beautiful soul… In a very masterful way.
“I let myself be personal. It’s about this person I was beginning a relationship with, my first impression of her and what our relationship might become.”
The Swedish rockers return with another big release that’s set to get your blood pumping!
“We wrote ‘Low Road’ about being your own worst enemy. About running from your own demons only to realise that you can’t, because the problem is inside of yourself. ‘Low Road’ is maybe one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written, filled with the brutalness of the human mind, that can be both vicious and lost.”
“I was never good at talking about my feelings so I wrote them down instead. When I felt sad, me and my mum wrote letters to each other about it. So expressing myself through songs came pretty naturally for me.”
Exciting new music talent from this 3-piece Stockholm group. An infectious and nicely written piece of indie pop.
“We live in success, we strive and we chase success. At the beginning of the process we wrote the song more as a joke. We were talking about how success is controlling everyones life today and we started to recognise ourself in the message of the song. It resulted in an ironic song with a relatable topic.”
“Silver Spoon is about two people, very different from each other, who choose to hold on. They’re not the perfect match, but they feel it’s better to be unhappy together than alone. It’s love after all.”
Taken from the debut EP, ‘First Take’.
