• Seafret is the acoustic North Yorkshire duo of Jack Sedman and Harry Draper. Folllowing up from the success of the recent Give Me Something EP, last week they released Seafret’s new EP Oceans.
Check out the bands tumbling, emotional, captivating, contagious cover of Hozier’s Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene which was recorded for Zane Lowe?s Radio 1 show. Honest & raw, sit down, enjoy.
• We head on with cruel, beautiful, nervy, wonderful, Swedish, Americana music. The Tarantula Waltz is fronted by Stockholmbased singer-songwriter Markus Svensson who played with badass greatness´ as The War on Drugs and First Aid Kit.
Later this year Tarantula will announce their second album, produced by The Tallest Man On Earth aka Kristian Matsson himself. Check out song 17 – ”I wish I was wiser when I was seventeeeeen…” – from the album Tinder Stick Neck.
• From the capital city of Sweden we find the garage punk rock act of Lucern Raze. The single Someone Like You from the upcoming debut album Stockholm One (release Feb 25) is plain awesome. A slow moving roller coaster of hidden emotions, drugs to our muddy ears.
Lucern Raze is a new project from Luke, ex-frontman of London-band Sex Beet. Talented geezer, no doubt.
• Mary Caroline from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories got us hooked immediately on her folky vibe and gritty northern imagery. The Canadian singer-songwriter lives just below the Arctic Circle and works on a Animal Planet/Discovery show called Ice Lake Rebels. It gives her the opportunity to live ”off the grid” and focus on her songwriting. We salute her for every tune down that rocky road.
Check out MC´s debut album Life On Earth, released January 27th, and the great title track below.
• T’day we got The Deep Dark Woods spinning their magic web over our dull office space. All the way from Saskatoon, and with an alt-country sound others only pray for.
This tight unit of friends have been playing together forever and you can tell by the perfect swing. We found a real treasure – deep within the dark forests of Canada.
Give sweet song Sugar Mama from album The Place I Left Behind a go!
• Swedish psych-rockers Slowgold is heavily on our mind. The Gothenburg dream catchers is foremost the beautiful voice and essence of Amanda Werne – a poetic heroine if there ever was one.
Check out new single Det Osynliga (The Invisible) from their upcoming EP. It’s music slowly turning to gold, alchemists of wicked vibes.
• Nashville man Ethan Luck made a great EP in 2014 – Hard Seas – and got a Wild West Rock N Roll vibe we adore. His voice is the attention type, and if your into Social Distortion or Gaslight Anthem this is a def-must.
Like an early Christmas gift, we receive a fresh new single from Gothenburg band Wea.
Wea is an explosive, alt-blues-pop band with influences, from bands such as Feist, Beck, The Black Keys and Wilco. But the sounds is more unique and self made than anything else.
Having released two EP’s starting in 2011, this third album will hit the streets spring 2015.
Today they release the first single ”My Spell” from the upcoming album. This was love at first listen. This is new music for 2015. I can’t wait for the rest of the songs to hit me.
Wea are:
Vocals/guitar/lyrics: Alexandra Wennersten
Guitar/producer: Thomas Andrén
Bass: Karl Jonsson
Drums/Percussion: Johan Östling