Swedish Dew...

Amazingly I'm still catching up from the holiday break. Yesterday I learned that Swedish indie pop trio Dew had uploaded 4 tracks to the band's Myspace profile during my holiday (please don't ever do that again!). Again is a brand new track and the first recorded as a trio (the bass player Lars Kvarnström has been added to the line-up) and the other 3 tracks are from the 2005 album Somewhere Else (which I'm still trying to get my hands on). If the new recording somehow means that more productive days are ahead I don't know, but it is great to know that the band is very much alive. The first time I wrote about the band I compared Dew to The River Detectives and the new songs certainly haven't made me change my mind!
+ Again (new track)
+ Cheat and Lie
+ Lady of Mine

And two more from Somewhere Else
+ All That I'm Leaving Behind
+ Still Looking

Another one of those I'm busy at work posts...

a PLAGUE of ANGELS has a brilliant post on Dew from Sweden.

Radio LXMBRG is another Swedish band (from Stockholm) playing indie pop. Need I say more? Apparently a new album has been recorded, but no further info is available. Meanwhile enjoy these two "oldies" found at Myspace.
+ It's Cruel Up North
+ Male Mystique

A Classic Education has mailed me another track called Victories At Night. It's ace and I've asked for (and hopefully will receive) permission to post it.

Italian blog polaroid > un blog alla radio > has been added to the blogroll.

Just came across French indie pop/rock band Exsonvaldes over at Last.fm. To good not to mention. Both of the tracks below are from the 2004 album Time We Spent Together. I don't speak a word French, but I believe the band is still very much alive.
+ Going Away
+ All I Have

Check the new single by The Mary Onettes. Avi labels the band JAMC-wannabees. Not quite sure if I agree. Not quite sure either if the band deserves the hype!
+ Void

Songs...

I'm really, really busy at work these days, so I have very little time to update the blog. But here are few quick ones!!!

Swedish band Dew has been so kind to send me a couple of their tracks in a better quality than the ones I posted the other day. Now there are no longer any excuses for not checking them out!
+ Still Looking
+ All That I'm Leaving Behind

Rodolfo has asked for (and been given) permission, to post the catchy and danceable (new) single by Scarlet BLONDE.
+ Electric

Falk recommends the really cool track Impurity by UK Gothic rock act The Faces of Sarah.
+ Impurity

Sorry about this rather incomplete post, but it's the best I can do right now......

Seeing through the snow...

Great Danish music blog emodreng & indiepige has a new home.

Download Keane's cover version of the classic The Sells Sanctuary by The Cult over at Torr. Awesome!

Chris and I could have saved ourselves a lot of troubles the other day. Cobra by Oliver North Boy Choir is available over at Last.fm!
+ Cobra

Skatterbrain recommends DAYS!

Yesterday I compared Dew to The River Detectives. Check out this track from the (brilliant) 2005 album King of The Ghost Train Ride.
+ Some Kind of Love

Guess what I'll be doing March 31!?
+ To The Lighthouse
+ Artboy Meets Artgirl

Came across the simply wonderful Suddenly Everythings Happens by California Snow Story over at Myspace tonight, just to learn that Indie MP3 had mentioned it earlier today. But it's certainly good enough to be mentioned by me (and plenty of others) as well, so grab this great new freebie by Letterbox Records.
+ Suddenly Everything Happens

Swedish Dew

Found the Swedish band Dew over at Myspace tonight and below I've listed pretty much all the information I can find:
- Formed in 2000 and released an album in 2005 (I believe it must have been called Somewhere Else).
- Two band members (Tommy & Dan). So it's a duo (I'm clever eh?).
- The band has five Myspace "friends". Hopefully they'll accept my request to make it six!
- Influenced by many genres, but mostly by British group from the late 70's and early 80's.
To me this is exactly the type of charming indie pop that so regularly and generously flows from Sweden to spoil us all.....hmmm - now that I think of it, Dew actually reminds me quite a lot of The River Detectives if anyone remember that Scottish band!? Check out Dew even though the songs are in the typical (low) Myspace "quality"!
+ All That I'm Leaving Behind
+ Still Looking
+ Somewhere Else