Malmö, Sweden indie pop luminaries Hater are gearing up for their first-ever U.S. tour, announced today with a moving new jam, taken from the group's forthcoming 7" single. "Four Tries Down" finds the band as dreamily bittersweet as ever, Caroline Landahl's effortlessly poignant voice hushed and reserved as she lulls us through choppy waters, her emotional plea only erupting into its full urgent, devastating force for the song's stormy coda...
Stockholm's Kornél Kovács shares the visuals for one of our favorite songs of 2019, the glowing opening track from his new album Stockholm Marathon, out now on Studio Barnhus. The dream-like, balmy summer night jam "Purple Skies", which features vocals from Rebecca & Fiona, gets a fittingly romantic and surreal video from director Alexandra Dahlström, starring Ruben Menninger + Manuela Gotskozik Bjelke as two star-crossed lovers/long distance runners traversing the city, and featuring a brief cameo from Kovács himself...
The Studio Barnhus crew stays absolutely killing it this year, blessing us with more than our fair share of their distinct style of vibrant and adventurous house music that works as well as a soundtrack for whatever you're doing right now -- work, commuting to work/school, late-night walks, flying, daydreaming -- as it does up in the club...
Sweden's Bella Boo follows up one of the best late-night house records in recent memory in last year's Fire 12" with more sumptuous and hypnotic bedroom dance grooves, in the form of a softly sparkling new 3-song single, out today on Studio Barnhus...
Swedish house producer Kornél Kovács shares the vibrant and dreamy lead single from his new album Stockholm Marathon, coming in April on Studio Barnhus, and inspired by what Kovács calls his "beautiful, boring" hometown. Listen to "Rocks", featuring vocals from Rebecca & Fiona, below:
With their glittery haze of a chillwave classic "TTYL" still winning the hearts of everyone who hears it, our favorite Stockholm dream-pop duo Morabeza Tobacco return with a misty new slo-mo psych-pop ballad, the album-closer from their forthcoming debut full-length, coming this spring on Luminelle Recordings...
Malmö, Sweden group Death and Vanilla share the haunted opening track from their forthcoming LP Are You A Dreamer?, premiering here today with our highest recommendation for fans of Mazzy Star, Broadcast, and Twin Peaks...
We're extremely psyched to announce that we'll be working with Stockholm-based group Morabeza Tobacco to release their debut LP in North America in 2019 on our label Luminelle Recordings, with our friends at Naiv Recordings taking care of the rest of the world...
I was already a devoted fan of Sweden's Hater before seeing them perform a handful of times at SXSW back in March, but I (and everyone else in attendance, I assume) left those shows convinced that they were one of the best, most underappreciated bands in the world, feelings in a puddle on the streets of Austin, but life affirmed...
Sweden's Bella Boo graces us with yet another warm and woozy late-night gem, taken from Stockholm label/collective Studio Barnhus' first ever label compilation, which also features contributions from DJ Koze, Kornél Kovács, John Talabot, Baba Stiltz, and more, out August 31st on triple vinyl. Listen to "boyboy" below: