Found another track from the great Lionheart brothers on their management‘s website today. It’s a track from their album “White angel Black apple” from 2003, and it still sounds good today. The band has just updated the look of their website to the better, and hopefully there will be a nice sound section there too. According to their new guestbook, new material from the band can be expected next summer.
Here’s the song:
The Lionheart Brothers – a-b-c learning

Midaircondo are three girls playing experimental electronic music, or as they say themselves: “midaircondo is a constellation who explores beat, sound, voice, improvisation in an audio-visual environment.” Their song “Serenade” is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard since the last time I wrote something like that , and I think you should hear it too!
Midaircondo – serenade
Midaircondo – careless you

It seems to be an overweight of swedish bands in my posts these days… Here’s another swedish indiepop trio for you: The Soft Eyes. They have a new album out at the moment, “let’s dance to our own beats” on instant feelings recordings. The Soft Eyes features members of the concretes, my orchard and marit bergman’s band, and their debut is all about lo-fi melancholy pop. The album also includes their lovely single ‘never the last time’ and an acoustic cover of my bloody valentine’s ‘when you sleep’.
Here are some songs from this great band:

The soft eyes – never the last time
The soft eyes – living through memories

Amandine is the name of a band of four musicians from Sweden, and together they make beautiful music in the alt.country/folk genre.
In the spring of 2004 the band sent demos out to various record labels and other media-type people. Of those, British label FatCat Records (Sigur Ros, Mum, Animal Collective, Set Fire to Flames etc) was the most interesting choice and a collaboration was established. The album “This is Where Our Hearts Collide”, recorded in April-May 2005, will be released in Europe November 14. And in the United States October 17. Here are two songs from the upcoming album:

Amandine – blood and narrow
Amandine – halo

Website: http://www.amandinemusic.com

Here’s a goodie for you! Beneath her parachute is the name for Eivind Bøe‘s sideproject where he does everything that doesn’t fit in his other band, Monzano. In my ears, the two projects sound quite the same, and both make very- very- very good music. People who like the great songwriting of Ben Gibbard/ Death cab for cutie or the popsongs from Pavement will surely love this. Beneath her parachute was chosen as this weeks artist at norwegian broadcasting company NRK’s urört-pages.

Beneath her Parachute will record some songs in studio ‘when he’s got the time’, and Monzano will probably be around playing on some Oslo-scene during the next months. In november you can see them live in Trondheim and probably also in the surrounding cities.

Here are some songs from the two projects:
Beneath her parachute – Pine trees
Beneath her parachute – sharing a window

Monzano – phonograph
Monzano – the sound of frozen milk
(more from monzano on their website and especially on their urört-pages)