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Malmö, Sweden indie-pop group Hater's stellar You Tried LP is a raw and emotionally charged collection of nostalgic, lovesick jams that remains one of our favorite albums of 2017. "Coming Down", a mostly unheard stunner from the You Tried sessions released as a Japan-only bonus track, is more evidence that Caroline Landahl slays, and that every song she sings feels like an empowering, po

We briefly referenced the "surreal romantic Lynchian horror vibes" of demen's sublimely spooky and poignant "ambur" when we premiered her debut single "niorum" about a month back, and today the reclusive Stockholm artist officially shares the otherworldly highlight from her stunning forthcoming debut LP...

We've heard a few of the lovelorn highlights from You Tried, the emotional new LP from Malmö, Sweden’s Hater, out next week on PNKSLM, and now you can stream the record in all its glory below, via Hype Machine:

We're excited to introduce the newest addition to the esteemed Kranky roster (home to such luminaries as Grouper and Benoit Pioulard, among others), a reclusive and enigmatic new Swedish artist from Stockholm named Irma Orm, aka Demen. She creates in solitude these beautifully glacial otherworldly elegies -- the label calls them "hermetic gothic swan songs" -- that haunt and disquiet on

The Night Land, John Talabot + Axel Boman's hypnotic new LP -- "a journey inwards, an attempt to reach our subconscious and to document our dreams" -- is out next week on R&S, but you can stream the record in its entirety below now:

Psyched to premiere another gut punch of a track from Malmö, Sweden’s Hater, taken from the group's wonderful forthcoming LP You Tried, out next month on Stockholm label PNKSLM. Like the previous singles from the new record -- "Mental Haven" + "Had It All" -- "Cry Later" is a very good lovelorn indie-pop song that's elevated to greatness by Caroline Landahl's gorgeous

John Talabot + Axel Boman share the mesmeric first full track from The Night Land, their forthcoming collaborative LP as Talaboman, out next month on R&S. Listen to "Safe Changes" below, and pre-order the record on double gatefold vinyl here:

John Talabot + Axel Boman share a preview of the sprawling, eight-and-a-half minute journey "Loser's Hymn", taken from their stellar new record as Talaboman, The Night Land, out March 3rd on R&S. The duo says the record is "an attempt to reach our subconscious and to document our dreams...

We're excited to premiere the new single from our favorite record of the year -- so far, 18 days in -- from Malmö, Sweden's Hater. It takes something very special to get us this psyched about indie pop these days, and in Hater's case, that is the raw emotional heft of frontwoman Caroline Landahl's gorgeous, achingly bittersweet vocals, perpetually swaying between comforting and devastating... Read

Stockholm producer Quiltland, who we last heard from on the haunting closing track from Merely's extremely underappreciated 2016 record Uncanny Valley, shares a beautifully sweeping and emotionally moving (that viola) new song of her own, taken from this new compilation of experimental Swedish music...