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Last heard as the vocalist on foreverandever’s so guud, Summer Heart nee David Alexander is back with his first single of 2017. The song 101 is a catchy, low-fi, heat-drenched sythpop of hazy, lazy grooviness. Recall a time during the hottest months of summer, when your body is melting under that great ball of fire […]
Swedish producer Adam Öhman, aka Mountain Bird, creates synth-y, moody beats and his latest single Cliché continues his run as “Scandinavian sound” maestro. Featuring sultry electronic R&B vocals from Nashville-based singer Emily Autrey, Cliché describes the early stages of a relationship when the desire to be perceived as independent and in control is simultaneously overpowered by […]
Come in from the cold and set yourself down by this fire / We all need time to help us mend our hearts Karmacloud, a Swedish-Danish-Irish alt-folk trio, have released the sweetly haunting single Elysia via all streaming and digital platforms. The song follows The Longing as the 2nd single to be released this year that the band […]
The latest single from Swedish glitter punk-pop trio The Magnettes is out! So Bad is a moody, mid-tempo, millennial ballad about the disconnect of gender bias, and is released in advance of their 11-track debut album “Ugly Youth” scheduled to be out next month. Other singles from their debut that already out are Bones, Killers […]
Sportsman aka Per Magnusson has released his White Shark into the digital sea. The second single from the Swede’s upcoming debut album “Neverland,” the hushed, shushed yearning in White Shark continues the reminiscent bleached beach vibe we enjoyed in his first single Running On A Beach, but painted in cool water-colored sounds. “White Shark is about […]
Stockholm-based synthpop artist foreverandever has teamed up with fellow Swede and Nordic Spotlight friend Summer Heart to produce the new lo-fi space jam so guud. I need you around / Need you in my space / Make me new A song about attraction, so guud encapsulates that disconnected “amped up, yet time is standing still” […]
Swedish singer Tove Styrke returns with the bouncy electro-pop single Say My Name. Wear it out like a sweater that you love / Cause I can’t get enough when you / Say my name Back with her first new music since her 2015 platinum album Kiddo, Tove’s Say My Name is a playful, breezy earworm […]
“And this is what it feels like / To be alive” It’s OK is the latest single from Swedish talent Frida Sundemo, and it’s a bittersweet, euphoric track that summons the experience of the stark, glacial reconciliation with what reality is and what it can be. The song “is about making peace with the weak […]
With yesterday’s release of the single Young and Wild, Swedish trio The Magnettes now have the last track written for their debut album “Ugly Youth,” which is scheduled for release this summer. This rebel-fueled, fuck-you-with-glitter pop song is sweetly infectious. “It’s about bliss and fearlessness,” says the band, “realizing that the moment you’ve been waiting for is now […]
Sportsman (a moniker of Per Magnusson) has unleashed his alt-pop, nostalgia-glazed single Running On A Beach, which is from his debut album “Neverland” scheduled for release June 2nd. He’s also released a video for the track. Once part of the Swedish soul-pop quintet The Sonnets, Sportsman journeyed to Kenya after disbandment for decompression, reflection and inspiration as to […]