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premiere: Hater – Four Tries Down
premiere: Hater – Four Tries Down
premiere: Hater – Four Tries Down
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 it
premiere: Death and Vanilla – A Flaw in the Iris
premiere: Death and Vanilla – A Flaw in the Iris
premiere: Death and Vanilla – A Flaw in the Iris
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. "A Flaw in the Iris" is a shadowy, softly twinkling late night pop-noir apparition that the group calls "the perfect soundtrack for driving at night in the middle o
Alice Boman – Dreams
Alice Boman – Dreams
Alice Boman – Dreams
Malmö, Sweden's Alice Boman returns with the sublime, heartbreaking new single "Dreams". The limited (300 copies) hand-stamped, hand-numbered Dreams 7" is out today via the Control Group. Boman says of the track:
premiere: Hater – Coming Down
premiere: Hater – Coming Down
premiere: Hater – Coming Down
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
premiere: Hater – Cry Later
premiere: Hater – Cry Later
premiere: Hater – Cry Later
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
premiere: hear Swedish indie-pop group Hater’s lovesick anthem “Had It All”
premiere: hear Swedish indie-pop group Hater’s lovesick anthem “Had It All”
premiere: hear Swedish indie-pop group Hater’s lovesick anthem “Had It All”
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