Ghost...

Danish duo Bodebrixen has been signed by Playground Music and earlier this week the lads published first single Ghost from their forthcoming album Out of Options. The track has an appealing summer-pop-feel-good sound to it, but the lyrics (“you’re a living ghost…hiding in your basement”) are surprisingly darker when compared to the almost uplifting sound. Promises well for the album!

Ghost by Bodebrixen

A northern forest...

Two years ago Tender Objects (or The Candy Twins as they were called back then...or was that a completely different band...I'm not sure) recorded a brilliant tribute song to Northern Portrait called The Next Big Thing. Now the band has been inspired once again and in a Facebook message yesterday, David of the band wrote that he has written this new track after listening to the Sambassadeur track Kate. If that is what it takes to inspire people to write fine new pop songs, people should certainly listen more the Sambassadeur! Will be streaming for a short time only (whatever that means exactly?)...

A Northern Forest by Tender Objects

Sambassadeur - Kate by Labrador Records

+ The Next Big Thing

The liberation of love...

copy...paste...inserting (almost everything from) yesterday's post... UK trio Charlie Big Time has been added as well to the growing Matinée roster...learn more about the recent additions on the revamped and great looking Matinée website...

Charlie Big Time - The Liberation of Love by Matinée Recordings

Grenade...

According to It's A Trap this is "the best new video in the world right now" and have to admit that both video and song (Grenade by Henric de la Cour) are indeed incredibly cool. If you enjoy dark goth inspired synthpop, you'll definitely love this one! From his forthcoming limited edition 7" vinyl.

There may come a time...

Bart & Friends is the most recent addition to the Matinée "roster" and title track There May Come A Time from the band's forthcoming EP is just as sweet and catchy (with jangling guitars of course) as you have come to expect from anything released by this superior label.

Bart and Friends - There May Come A Time by Matinée Recordings

Perfect pain...

Just found this one in the mailbox. Superb indie pop track by UK act (quartet or quintet?) The Vestals! Grab the track for free at Facebook...



The Vestals - Perfect Pain

Marianne...

Blink and the good ones are taken. Been away from the computer for a couple of days, meaning that I’m a bit late posting this new track by California Wives…which I believe they are giving away to sort of celebrate that they’ve been signed to Vagrant Records. Being late or not, I just have to post it; for a number of reasons. First and foremost it simply needs to be shared, because California Wives is one of the best and most interesting new bands around (despite that horrible, horrible band name). Everything put out by the band so far has been stunningly brilliant and new track Marianne is no exception, being a real catchy indie-pop-new-wave kind of thing. Furthermore the title reminds of a rather wonderful girl I once knew, whose name was…you guessed it…Marianne, whom I actually dreamt of marrying (though I never got around asking her that big question). Sadly (and luckily) things never worked out as I hoped they would, so we split, and a few years later I met another girl (even more wonderful), and this one I did in fact end up marrying. And nearly 12 years later we still are! But Marianne still has this little soft spot in my heart…

Marianne by California Wives

Sunflowers...

Stream/download intriguing debut track/single Solsikker by new Danish act Navneløs. Probably best described as a real close “relative” to Under Byen, which hopefully means that it will appeal to one or two non-Danish speaking listeners?

Solsikker (single udgave) by Navneløs

I made a promise...

Stream new track I Made A Promise by The Sexual Outlaws. They still have a horrible band name, but they sure write some pretty fine indie pop tunes!

the sexual outlaws - I Made A Promise

This Vision...

If you like catchy electronic pop songs, I highly recommend that you check out Swedish duo This Vision. Their sophomore album The Golden Age We Lost was released last Friday and contains 10...well; no surprise really...catchy electronic pop songs!



 This Vision - Ashes by Devotion Records