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Nr 1. Fröst 

Ny omgång med många spännande låtar. Nr 1, 2 och 4 är från band, som

uppträdde på DIALS-festivalen i Portsmouth förra helgen. 

1 Fröst (UK) is a collaboration between French-Swedish sound artist Johanna Bramli (vocalist for Stereolab offshoot Imitation Electric Piano) and Fujiya & Miyagi’s synth player and producer Steve Lewis. You can hear some of their previous work reflected in the pacing and arrangement of the track. The arrival of their debut album Matters opens up more scope for the pair to explore this intriguing alchemy. Threading throughout the record is a variety of broad influences, including Silver Apples, Gazelle Twin, Fever Ray and Laurie Anderson. electricity-club.co.u

2 Thyla (UK) From Brighton. Sounds like: The new guard break down and wilfully incorporating New Wave, Post-punk, New Romantics into pop for the 21^st Century. For fans of: The Cocteau Twins. The Cure, Interpol   NME

3 Peel Dream Magazine (US)   is the nom de plume of New York City-based musician Joe Stevens. A nod to BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel, arbiter of all things underground, Peel Dream Magazine is highly evocative of a certain strain of independent music. As Stevens explains, "I wanted to create an outlet for subcultural wanderers. Something you can subscribe to." Stevens harkens back to the early 1990s, when The Velvet Underground resurged as an inspiration to a new set of bands wielding synthesizers, off-set guitars, and a political bent. The Peel Dream experience is defined by a gentle, fuzzy psychedelia Slumberland Records

4 Hotel Lux (UK) In the short time that they have been together, Hotel Lux have become one of the most talked about bands on the scene. Emerging from the same South London circuit that has birthed faves like Shame and Goat Girl, the Portsmouth-raised quintet have been championed for their “pub rock” sound, gritty realness and deliciously dark lyrics. Portsmouth-raised and now based in London, who could become the next in a long line of indie bands making waves everywhere. WonderlandMagazine
“Hotel Lux was a hotel in Moscow where communists were exiled to,” he says. “It’s where a lot of them ended up being killed during Stalin’s purges, taken from Hotel Lux. It was essentially meant to be a safe house, but it didn’t end up being very safe I guess.”   NME

5 The Natvral (US) A lot has changed for Kip Berman in the past couple of years. Since recording the last Pains Of Being Pure At Heart album, the lead singer and songwriter of the New York indie-pop band has moved to New Jersey, become a father, and started recording new music under a new name: the Natvral. “I wanted to pick up my guitar and sing songs in a natural way, without all the things about music that aren’t music,” Berman explains. He doesn’t see the project as a solo project or a side project, just an outlet for new music that feels connected to his First single from my debut album "Miles to go before I sleep". new life.  Stereogum

6 Featherfin (NOR) är ett project av Knut Börre Lindbjör. First single from my debut album "Miles to go before I sleep".. Etter å ha lagd musikk på og av siden 1985, så har jeg endelig fått fingeren ut og gitt ut et ordentlig album, på cd, digitalt og Spotify, som en godt voksen mann. Stilmessig er det noe sånt som "elektronisk basert dream pop med shoegaze- tendenser", og blogger har sammenlignet det med New Order, Slowdive og "old school psych". Knut Börre Lindbjör själv från den fina norska facebookgruppen Musikk för oss med sinnsykt god musikksmak.

7 Elvis Costello (UK) Look Now is Costello’s 25th album. He claims to have reIt’s in the funk disco shimmy of “Burnt Sugar is So Bitter” (co-written with Carole King), the synthetic Sam Cooke sounds of “Unwanted Number” and the grimy groove of “Mr & Mrs Hush”, and it all makes for an album double-dipped in pop classicism and painted perfectly from memory.convened his backing band The Imposters to channel 1982’s edgy Imperial Bedroom. Independent

8 Dream Wife (UK) The London-based rock band Dream Wife didn’t mean to be taken seriously when they formed. In 2014, guitarist Alice Go, bassist Bella Podpadec, and Iceland-born vocalist Rakel Mjöll started the group as an art project while studying at Brighton University. This is an album that proudly wears its influences on its sleeve. Along with those clear punk forebears, the band’s members have cited artists like Be Your Own Pet, Sleigh Bells, and Le Tigre, a traceable lineage if you listen closely. But some of the most revealing parallels come from New York City’s early-2000s rock revival. Pitchfork

9 Les Big Byrd (SWE) Psykedelisk rymdrock verkar vara den logiska konsekvensen av Åhlunds liv som musikalisk kameleont, för på “Iran Iraq Ikea” lyckas Les Big Byrd hela tiden balansera perfekt på gränsen mellan de smala och de breda uttrycken. Tyska Klaus Dinger-pretentioner möter vemodig svensk indiepop av den sort som kan få 30 000 personer att klä sig i vitt på en arenakonsert, och det bara funkar.  Vi har den smittsamma A Little More Numb, Eonoch senaste singeln I Fucked Up I Was A Child, som alla ingår i symbios med kroppens pop-DNA. Kristianstadsbladet

10. Villagers (UK) Conor O’Brien har aldrig gjort en dålig eller ointressant skiva. Även på The Villagers fjärde album är det gedigna låtskrivandet centralt, och den här gången finns det dessutom ett intimt soulsväng i de folkpopiga melodierna, allra snyggast i A Trick of the Light och i suggestiva Sweet Saviour.  Det lätta handlaget i hans jazzrockiga rytmer bidrar till skivans organisk struktur, där måsskrik blandas med snarare än kontrasteras mot modernt elektroniska ljud. Det speglar också väl den ambivalenta hållning Conor O’Brien i sina texter intar till det högteknologiska samhället. NG.SE

Ni har två veckor på er. Poängen ska vara inlämnade senast söndag den 28 oktober.

Här är länken. 

Nr 2. Thyla