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Sweden's Nora Karlsson aka Boys delivers on all of the promise of last year's perfect Alvvays-esque jam "Rabbits" on her glorious new LP, out this week on Stockholm label PNKSLM. Rest in Peace is an alternately soaring and wistful indie-pop mini-opus that spans the last 5 years of Karlsson's life, starting when she was just 17...

We were introduced to young Stockholm artist Nora Karlsson aka Boys via her 2017 single "Rabbits", a charming, Alvvays-esque lo-fi gem that remains one of our favorite tracks of last year. Karlsson expands Boys' sonic palette just a bit on the buzzing lead single from her stellar debut album Rest In Peace, which we're premiering here today...

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:

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

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