The wait is over. Finally here it is. The real hits of 2020 gathered in one boombastic playlist. A determined work group of experts consisting of me, myself and I have been working hard to seperate the wheat from the chaff. But we put our differences aside and came out with 50 masterpieces. Put your partner to bed, put your headphones on and enjoy!
Månadens playlist är 125 låtar tjock. Hela listan finns här. Men jag lägger till några absoluta video-favoriter.
Enjoy!
Varför inte lite 80-tals inspirerad synth-indie från Barcelona…
Här lever också nyanser av ett tidigt 80-tal, i samklang med hur ett soulstänkt the 1975 kunde låta.
En 25-årig Sörmlänning låter som en 103-årig Leonard Cohen.
De låter som förr, de ser ut som förr och han dansar som förr. I love it.
Mera svensk begåvning från Sörmland.
It’s time to evaluate the results of my musical treasure hunt in June.
The playlist contains about 100 tracks, as always.
First up, my absolute favorites.
1. Emmet Kai – Super tangerine
2. J.S. Ondara – Pulled out of the market
3. Holly Humberstone – Overkill
4. Sports Team – Fishing
5. Constant Smiles – Only love
6. Gordi – Unready
7. KennyHoopla – How will I rest in peace if I’m buried by a highway?
8. The Land Below – Safe to dream
Best summer in forever. Crazy warm daze trying to stay out of the sun. Fans and sunshades sold out in the whole country. Mayby not the best conditions for music hunting. Not for me at least, since I do most of my tune chasing indoors. Managed to come up with 100 sensational tracks nevertheless. August 2018
Sink your teeth into this musical bliss with acts like;
Blood Orange. HONNE, Capital Cities, Ariana Grande, Still Corners, Death From Above 1979, Troye Sivan, Death Cab For Cutie, WhoMadeWho, Tunng, Family Of TheYear, LANY, Mitski, Cullen Omori, Observer Drift, Hilang Child, Midlake, Tor Miller, Wilderado, Miles Kane, Ben Khan, Jane’s Party, Iron & Wine, PD Liddle, Austin Lucas, Kitten, Cayucas, NIGHT FLIGHT, L. Martin, Twin Peaks, Amos Lee, The Heartbeat Band, Conner Youngblood, Ruby Empress, Ben Browning, IAMX, Fine Points, Swim Good Now, Villagers, D.A. Stern, Gold Star, Cornelia Murr, Dusted, Dictaphone Blues, White Denim, Drew Beskin, Jan And Naomi, Triptides, Bird Streets, Van El, Joel Henry Little, Ljus, Danny Saucedo, Miljon, and Johan Heltne.
Here are my absolute favorites this month.
I absolutely adore;
1. Wild Nothing – Letting go
I absolutely praise
2. John Grant – Love is magic
I absolutely would cut off my left foot pinky if having written:
3. Michael Nau – On ice
I absolutely cry to:
4. The Paper Kites – On the train ride home
Absolutely independent pop
5. Mating Ritual – Low light
I absolutely rrrrrrespect
6. Nicki Minaj – Ganja burns
I absolutely think Reuben kicks Editors and White Lies asses
7. Reuben And The Dark – Dreaming
Absolutely the best and most joyful thing to come out of Russia, alongside vodka.
8. Pompeya – Fire in my heart
I absolutely wouldn’t be who I am without their debut Inside in / inside out
9. The Kooks – No pressure
Absolutely Interpol!
10. Interpol – If you really love nothing
So thats all folks! Roughly a 100 tracks from August. Enjoy! August 2018
August brought some new tracks to my plalists. Here are all 121 newcomers.
Best new albums were delivered by Work Drugs, Lana Del Rey, Beeches (EP), Dua Lipa, Emmit Fenn, The Preatures, Talos and Luke Sital-Singh.
Other artists are;
Arcade Fire, Passion Pit, Boo Seeka, First Aid Kit, Coldplay, Frankie Rose, Foster The People, Lola Marsh, Arkells, Albin Lee Meldau, A Beautiful Friend, Krista Siegfrids, Nadja Evelina, Oskar Linnros, Mondo Cozmo, Blonder, Avicii, Fast Romantics, Dan Croll, Christopher, Coast Modern, John Joseph Brill, Declan McKenna, Smallpools, The Districts, TeamMate, The Real Numbers. Fionn Regan, The Tallest Man on Earth, Kirin J Calinan, Pajala Truck co, Sol Flare, Fountaineer, Goss, Yukon Blonde, Corridor, Hayden Calnin, Tora, Hot Spoke, Jay Pray, The Jungle Giants, The Kite String Tangle, Kyle Lionhart, London Grammar, Luke Christopher, Maximo Park, MISSIO, Softer Still, and more…
Here are my top 12 songs this month;
Singapore-based melodic bedroom-pop.
1. Sobs – Girl
Cinematic songwriter songscapes.
2. Emmit Fenn – Blinded
Edinburgh 4-piece indie.
3. Beeches – Redline
4. Dua Lipa feat. Miguel – Lost in your light
Twin Shadow vibes
5. Chain Gang Of 1974 – Wallflowers
Like a Sacha Baron Cohen character Nick Cave wannabe.
6. Kirin J Calinan – S.A.D
Danish jangle.
7. Luster – You’ve got the heat
In the footsteps of Blood Orange and Bipolar Sunshine.
8. Kwaye – Cool Kids
Philadelphia dream pop.
9. Work Drugs – Magic in the night
Feelgood r’n’b from Stockholm.
10. Marlene – Next to me
Second album Time is a riddle out by this fantastic singer songwriter who breaths new life into an tired genre.
11. Luke Sital-Singh – Hunger
Boy band pop? Nostalgia for some.
12.LANY – Super far
Here is the Playlist for July 2016
More than 100 tracks from all over the world. I’ll tease you with my favorite 10 tracks from this month.
Enjoy!
Indie with 70’s touch from label Secretly Canadian.
1. Whitney – No matter where we go
Remember Sweet disposition? Australian rockers are back after a 4-year break.
2. Temper Trap – Burn
Great Ep Bound, by Gothenburg indie-quartet.
3. School ’94 – Common sense
Pittsburgh chill from one man band of Jared Gulden.
4. Emerson Jay – When it’s night
Welsh-American post-punk revival. Enjoy!
5. Drowners – Cruel ways
Double vanity is the third album from this Oklahoma indie rock constellation.
6. BRONCHO – Fantasy boys
Yes! Yes! Yes!
7. Blood Orange – Augustine
Is this a boyband? I don’t know. It’s great though. California three peace dream pop band.
8. LANY – Where the hell are all my friends
Telecoast is the full length debut by this Boston dance pop band
9. Bearstronaut – Curacao
This New York lo-fi noir duo has been flying under the radar far too long.
10. The Blancos – Cameras
Playlist contains much more. For example Maxwell, Delorean, Tegan And Sara, Broods, Deco Pilot, Cat’s Eyes, Peter Bjorn and John, Caveman, Band Of Horses and Gabriel Bruce.
With promises of warm weather comes The Summer of 2015 Playlist.
At the moment it contains 25 tracks but I’ll be listening, dragging and dropping all summer long. So feel free to follow if you’re in a summer mood, or want to get into it.
I’ve mashed up both oldies and fresh songs. Here’s a few apetizers.
Indie new wave pop from Moscow.
Pompeya – Liar
Pretty song in a chapel by Irish folkers
Villagers – Hot scary summer
And if you want to follow the blog playlist here it is; Världens Bästa Musik 2
Here is the old one with 654 track from the past 3 years Världens Bästa Musik
Have a warm and nice summer! Summer Of 2015
As always talk is cheep. Here is the playlist for June 2015. 160 cracking songs.
Here we have Active Child, Florence + The Machine, SOAK, Duran Duran, LP, Made In Heights, Major Lazer, Prinzhorn Dance School, Nate Ruess, Porcelain Raft, Trey Songz, Waves & Waves, Algiers, LANY, Mao Ra Sun, Part Time, Daughn Gibson, Allman Brown, Treasure Davis, Hints, Ben Browning, Outfit, Jason Derulo, Tyler Lyle, The New Division
and Great stuff from Sweden with Kinetics, Dolce, Colleagues, Slim Loris, Vera Vinter, Brittsommar, Death And Vanilla, Frida Selander, Bob Hund, Little Children, Ola Salo, Mando Diao, Tove Styrke, Closure (Martins Skölds band) The Tarantula Waltz, The Sun Days, David Pagmar and Ida Redig,
and Icelandic Vök and Of Monsters And Men.
And if you like Bowies german period you have to listen to Pat Jordache.
Finnish contributions with Skip Zone, Månskensbonden and electro virtuosis Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Here are 13 favorites from June
It’s a C-86 summer rain washing over you, playing lo-fi synth on your backbone.
1. Summer Camp – Bad love
Former therapist Linus Lutti search his soul for vulnurability and team up with the angelic voice of Titiyo.
2. Little Children feat. Titiyo – Falling through darkness
Psychedelic dreams from New Zealand.
3. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Multi-love
Swedens Zhala is a pop princess waiting to happen.
4. Zhala – Holy bubbles
Ex Girls front man release another painfully beautiful song.
5. Christopher Owens – When you say I love you
Dialect pop from the Swedish parts of Finland. Great video.
6. Månskensbonden – Döpt i Kyrå älv
Sweet naive pop from big Russia.
7. Hospital – Revelation
The Vaccines keep producing riffs and catchy melodies.
8. The Vaccines – Dream lover
The seventies sound of glammy Sparks fusioned with the ”Take me out” stomp of Franz Ferdinand. I bless this marriage.
9. FFS – Johnny Delusional
Amazing dream pop from Stockholm with some of those 80’s emotions that i love.
10. Colleagues – Talk it out
Great summer song from Canadian five-piece indie poppers.
11. Yukon Blonde – Como
Authentic 60’s sound from Tokyo Police Club frontman. Another summer song that could’ve been a forgotten Monkees song.
12. Dave Monks – The rules
Manchesters contribution to the music scene. I like the album ”Get to heaven”. Not just plain pop. It’s a bit art, a bit avant-garde even, and still catchy when the chorus hits you.
13. Everything Everything – Regret
Well, that’s it. Check out the whole playlist Juni 2015
And watch out for the summer playlist coming soon!
Nu är det bråttom. Jag har semester och måste skynda på att njuta. Bonustiden är förbi och man ska ha roligt nu! Det är grillkoja, myggsvärmar, blindtarmsoperation, fjällvandring, fågelholkssnickring, taklaminering, gräsklippning, ölprovning, bastubad, fiske, utedasstömning, vedhuggning, ektjärning, hembränning och förståss ny musik. Hinner inte skriva så mycket dock. Så här följer juni-playlistan i sin allra enklaste form, med månadens mest spännande upptäckter. Här finns t.ex. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Kyla La Grange, How To Dress Well, gdansk, Owen Pallett, Lorenz, Rush Midnight, Say Lou Lou, James, Lana Del Rey, Jack White, Wolf Gang, Markus Krunegård, Nottee, The Antlers, och Cocktails som går i Tom Pettys fotspår från 70-talet. Det finns ungefär 175 låtar men här nedan finns ett smakprov på 10 absoluta favoriter. Börja med dom och sen är du kär.
Juni 2014
1. LANY – ILYSB
2. TOPS – Change of heart
3. Miniature Tigers – Oblivious
4. Hurula – 22
5. Kamp! – A new leaf
6. Tales In Space – Shades
7. First Aid Kit – Silver lining
8. Lust For Youth – Armida
9. Tiny Victories – Scott & Zelda
10. Craft Spells – Komorebi
Musik, Litteratur & Tv Världens Bästa 