Summer has come to and end. Great music hasn’t and won’t. August has a lot of summery stuff in it. Some very interesting bands from Finland, Sweden and Canada, and the rest of the world of course. Remember the name Kode Maya. A mix of Empire of the Sun, MGMT and Peter Bjorn & John. A dynamic duo from Ostrobothnia Finland.
More than 150 tunes on the August playlist with majestic Weeknd, Daniel Romano, Seapony, Lianne La Havas, Drake, X Ambassadors, Georgia, The Jungle Giants, Night Beds, JJ, Laura Mvula, Laakso, Valtter Vin, Trevor Something, RHODES, Dirty Ghosts, Spector, The Fratellis, Gwilym Gold, Royal Concept, Imperial State Electric, Gardens & Villa, Satchmode, Clarity, Tay Walker, Peter Wolf Crier, Kid Cadaver, The Attic Sleepers, The Chemical Brothers, Xoel Lopez, Bon Jovi, The Beach, Yo La Tengo, Last Dinosaurs, Ronya, Destroyer, Rayland Baxter, Black Atlass, and Beach House!!!!!
Here are a few of my monthly favorites:
The sound of Strokes.
1. Albert Hammond jr – Losing touch
Scottish lo-fi indie.
2. Admiral Fallow – Holding the strings
Exciting debut single.
3. Chloe Black – 27 Club
Intense creativity and improvisations turns into dreamy walks in the musical Swedish forrests.
4. This Is Head – People
One of my favorite chill wave pop bands
5. Work Drugs – Minor Flaws
Better keep your eyes and ears open in the future, because Finlands Kode Maya is coming to getcha. Check out their soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/kodemaya
6. Kode Maya – Hollow feeling
Portland pop. Check out the fresh EP Heatwaves here.
7. Wild ones – Dim the lights
English wunderkind produces great melody.
8. Will Joseph Cook – Hearse
Multi instrumentalist synthpop with raised on cassettes era veins.
9. Evan Voytas – Disappear into the stars
Boy and girl duo in the chill waves of Beach House.
10. New Shack – Mickey and Judy
One of Swedens greatest songwriters give us one more evergreen. Here in English: Song about us
11. Eva Dahlgren – Filmen om Oss
More beautiful balearic rock on the fresh album Stations
12. Woolfy vs Projections – Jackie
Kalle from Canada with a Ryan Adamsish song and a fun video with a lot of record covers.
13. Kalle Mattson – Avalanche
Risk a Stockholm-syndrom with swedish indie synth duo.
14. Cape Lion – Called you mine
People namedrop Bob Dylan, Townes van Zandt and Nick Drake. No small shoes to fill.
15. Zachary Cale – Sundowner
The band has been dropping off monthly romantic pop singles for a while. Now the debut album is here.
16. The Modern Electric – Slow-motion jeans
Enjoy!
And here is the August playlist
and July playlist
and the Summer of 2015 playlist if you need more sun
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