Indie Folk Darlings: The Weepies - Hideaway

09-May-08


Little Bird [MP3]
Takes So Long [MP3]
Gotta Have You [MP3] (from Say I am You, 2005)
Being partners in life, as well as in music, Deb Talan and Steve Tannen have a great story to share. Falling in love, admiring each other’s work and forming The Weepies. The duo writes sincerely sweet, quiet and simply crafted songs. Another intimate homemade record, Hideway (2008), is the result of all the couple has experienced and absorbed so far. The Weepies deliver delightful folk songs, full of clever phrasing, loveliness and darker moments.
Links:
Official website
MySpace Profile

Cute Indie Pop: Arrah And The Ferns - Evan Is A Vegan

28-Mar-08


Science Books [MP3]
Apple for Evan [MP3]
Arrah and the Ferns Accompanied by a Wurlitzer keyboard, a banjolin, drums, a glockenspiel and guitars, the witty and well written songs of Arrah and the Ferns are the perfect weekend pop fun. Folk, Indie Rock and Alt Country influences create a bright and cute indie pop mixture. Arrah and the Ferns will make you smile and shine.
LINKS:
Official website
MySpace Profile

Melodramatic Popular Songs: New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere

06-Feb-08


newbuffalo.jpgLyrical and delightful, New Buffalo’s album Somewhere, Anywhere (2007) is full of Sally Seltmann’s beautiful voice. Her very clean bright sound is permeated with innocence, gentle humor and hope, but without being in the slightest bit overdone. Lovely, emotional and utterly memorable, New Buffalo makes you ache and smile, all at once.
Links:
Official website
MySpace profile
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Feminine Desires: Dillinger Girl & Baby Face Nelson - Bang!

04-Dec-07


Stranger [MP3]
Puke [MP3]
dillinger_girl_and_baby_face_nelson.jpgTo me it feels like Bang! is full of wishes. It evokes the image of the Dillinger Girl begging and wishing in front of her Baby Face Nelson. Musically, this record exists somewhere between Jazz and Contemporary Folk. Our Dillinger Girl is a demanding woman, craving, lusting, sexual and warm. This record has a wonderful voice, the voice of a lustful love with all its fear and hope.
Links:
Buy this album
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Good Pop: Windy & Destiny - Words For Such A Riot

10-Nov-07


Dear Grace [MP3]
In Another Day [MP3]
Good Pop: Windy & Destiny - Words For Such A RiotPop is a music genre just like any other. It’s not this radical sellout that we witness over the last few years, which is usually not even based in the fact that there was something to sellout at first. Pop started before Rock at it was made to be popular, but it was also made to be of high quality. The Brill Building and Tin Pan Alley guys were real and excellent musicians who made enchanting melodies. Now I feel I can present you with a wonderful new Pop record that will warm and lighten up your winter days. Windy & Destiny’s debut (released on Earsay records) is a well crafted Indie Pop record. It’s light but heartfelt lyrics covered with thin breezy tunes. A most wonderful winter treat.
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Nordic Balkans: Detektivbyrån

14-Jul-07


E18 [MP3] (from Hemvägen EP)
Dansbanan [MP3] (from Hemvägen EP)
Lyckans Undulat [MP3] (from Lyckans Undulat)
Nordic Balkans: DetektivbyrånIn the same way that Julie Andrews leaps at the mountains in Austria in the Sound of Music, Detektivbyrån glides over the ice capped Nordic Balkans. With their minimal carnival music, always happy and forever minimal, they can exist in no other place. The grassy Balkans are no doubt not a place for these pale skinned Swedes, and none will argue that it’s hard to carry a small orchestra in the ice covered planes of Sweden. Thus, they exist in one place - in the Nordic Balkans.
Links:
Official website
Myspace profile

Photo by Malin Ringsby.