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Taken from Swedish producer Kornél Kovács' forthcoming LP The Bells, out this summer via Stockholm house label/collective Studio Barnhus:

We're honored to debut one of the most beautiful releases of 2016, Merely's intensely emotional, post-apocalyptic new LP Uncanny Valley. It's a soaring triumph for the Swedish artist and Team Rockit member, one that evokes vivid windswept landscapes from an otherworldly dystopian future -- with references to mysterious biblical works of unknown origin, the darkest material known to man, and the re

Another stellar, dreamily pulsing and lush balearic pop (the Swedish kind) gem from the mysterious, jj-affiliated artist Lidija, who just dropped the full song from the teaser video they posted a few weeks back:

Sweden's Merely shares another soaring highlight from her beautiful new full-length Uncanny Valley, out one week from tomorrow on Sincerely Yours. Listen to "Yang", featuring jj, below + download it here.

Yoo-Yoo is a new group from Sweden that, as former Korallreven member Marcus Joons tells us via email, is "made up by Korallreven, ORKID, Thanxxx, friends and lovers". Their blissed-out debut single elicits a breezy wistfulness and the distinct, welcome tinge of instant nostalgia, not unlike the feeling we got the first time we heard Korallreven's magical tropical balearic pop back in 20

A glacial, dream-like new track from a mysterious (and definitely jj-related) new Swedish artist/group called Lidija:

Swedish singer and producer Merely unveils the majestic lead single from her beautiful new full-length, due in June via the legends at Sincerely Yours. The soaring, windswept "Libertine" exemplifies the record's widescreen, cinematic scope -- the press release says "her upcoming album is a letter from the post apocalypse...

Sweden's Postiljonen share another shimmering track from one of our most anticipated releases of 2016, their stellar forthcoming LP Reverie. With "How Can Our Love Be Blind" (and the also great previously released album gems "The Open Road", "Go...

Sweden's Postiljonen share their glowing new single, taken from the group's forthcoming LP Reverie, out February 19, 2016. With the stellar recent singles they've unveiled from the new record, these guys are really staking their claim as the greatest remaining Swedish Balearic dream-pop group — RIP Air France and Korallreven — and the gorgeous, windswept "The Open Road" might be their mo