sweden – Backseat Mafia

Album Review: The Slow Summits have ‘Every Intention’ to blast a ray of luminescent pop sunshine into your ears all the way from Sweden.

Anyone else remember the children’s Swedish detective series Agaton Sax by Swedish author Nils-Olof Franzén and illustrated by Åke Lewerth, with Quentin Blake illustrating the English editions? Agaton Sax also ran the local newspaper,…

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PREMIERE: Sweden’s De Arma pivot to darkwave on intense new EP ‘Nightcall’

It says a lot about how long Swedish gothic rock band De Arma had been sitting on second album Strayed in Shadows (finally released last June after years in limbo)…

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Album Review: The Ghost of Helags unveil the shimmering and impressingly beautiful album ‘We Came From the Stars’

Here at Backseat Mafia HQ we have been following synth pop duo The Ghost of Helags for a while – covering a series of extraordinary beautiful dreamy singles and even…

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Album Review: Feskarn – Ravens Way

Feskarn is a one man Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal band hailing from Uppsala, Sweden. The one man being Niklas Larsson along with new studio gear, Ibanez guitar, soundcard and upgraded software, he…

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LIVE: Avatar Ages – ‘Age of Madness’ Review

The world has been missing out on quite a few things of late. Though perhaps not at the top of everyone’s list, for some people the loss of live music…

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Album Review: Eskobar rejuvenate and refresh the past with swaggering new album Chapter 2

Nordic groove masters, Eskobar, are a band that isn’t afraid to wear their influences on their sleeve – their debt to the Madchester era, The Stone Roses, Britpop and all…

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TRACK: Summer Heart’s ‘Good Together’: pristine dreampop announces new label home

SUMMER HEART, the dreampop recording alias of Swede David Alexander, has announced his signing for Icons Creating Evil Art with the release of a sweet and soaring new synthpop tune,…

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Track: Swedish Rockers GÅS Share Debut Release – Epitaph

Epitaph is the first track taking from the debut release by a new band from Sweden called GÅS. The release is a two track 7″ ‘Epitaph’ and ‘The North Wind…

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Marble Mammoth – ‘Have The Sun Lick Your Mind’: big Swedish rock shapes

COMING atcha out of Stockholm, Marble Mammoth have an interesting thing goin’ on, mining in that space somewhere between harder edged psych and classic hard rock like Led Zep –…

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Track: Eskobar – Hey Sister

I’ve mentioned before that there are limited stories to tell just as there are a finite set of musical notes to play. It’s not the story, it’s the way it’s…

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