Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Kent
02. Robyn
03. Familjen
04. Håkan Hellström
05. The National
06. The Radio Dept.
07. Jens Lekman
08. Acid House Kings
09. The Bear Quartet
10. Teenage Fanclub
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is giving away the Gidge remix of the new Familjen single "Det var jag": http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=277
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Robyn
02. Kent
03. The Radio Dept.
04. The Drums
05. Familjen
06. Ratatat
07. Jens Lekman
08. Wild Nothing
09. LCD Soundsystem
10. Bob Hund
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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Baby Alice - Piña colada boy
02. TALK 1
03. CEO - Come with me
04. Faster Katt - The girl and the crow
05. EL-SD - Walking sideways
06. Masshysteri - Dom kan inte höra musiken
07. TALK 2
08. Champagne Riot - The champagne anthem
09. Khoma - In it for fighting
10. Dear Euphoria - Rescue
11. Haust - Anti-reproductive
12. TALK 3
13. This Is Head - 0011
14. Familjen - Det var jag
15. Mikkel Meyer - Tunge (feat. Non)
16. TALK 4
17. Rasmus Kellerman - The greatness & me
18. Grande Roses - The astronaut
19. We Live In Trenches - White knuckles
20. The Amazing - And it looks like today
21. TALK 5
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
I really wanted to like the new Familjen album "Mänskligheten", but it is tragically marred by gratuitous neo-soul diva vocals. Not that the debut "Det snurrar i min skalle" was wholly immune, but one track ("Kom säger dom") and a b-side ("Feber") make it the exception, not the rule. It's not all bad for the new one though, lead single "När planeterna stannat" is a solid dancefloor stomper and the instrumental "Viggo" would fit right in on Håkan Lidbo's interesting "Musiken från framtiden" comp. My favorite track though, would have to be "Det var jag", which sounds like a combination of those two tracks into something greater. It's got the driving beat and bassline of the former as well as the Eastern melody of the latter and is supremely catchy in the way I expect from Familjen. And no damn distracting vox. Thank god.
Familjen - Det var jag
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Robyn
02. Familjen
03. Oskar Linnros
04. The Drums
05. Jens Lekman
06. Efterklang
07. The National
08. Shout Out Louds
09. Dungen
10. Bob Hund
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is giving away a plethora of Andreas Tilliander remixes as free downloads: http://www.adrianrecordings.com/default.asp?newsid=274
Contributing artists include labelmates Familjen and Boeoes Kaelstigen as well as Minilogue, Pellarin, Vapnet and many others.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Rasmus Kellerman
02. The Bear Quartet
03. Familjen
04. Robyn
05. The Radio Dept.
06. Beach House
07. Shout Out Louds
08. Teenage Fanclub
09. The National
10. Jens Lekman
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Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. The Radio Dept.
02. The National
03. Familjen
04. Shout Out Louds
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Kent
07. Jonathan Johansson
08. LCD Soundsystem
09. The Bear Quartet
10. Robyn
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Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Kopfer Kat - UberVolt
02. TALK 1
03. Pan Sonic - Radio Qurghonteppa
04. Johannes Heldén - Vortex count
05. Dear Euphoria - No more time to weep
06. TALK 2
07. The Bear Quartet - We're not gonna make it
08. The Shock! - In silence
09. MF/MB/ - The big machine
10. TALK 3
11. Familjen - När planeterna stannat
12. Kausal - The conquistador
13. The Nature - Din medicin
14. TALK 4
15. Ignatius - Så jävla religiös
16. Okkultokrati - Tomb City rockers - Pungent stench
17. Haust - Anti-Reproductive
18. TALK 5
19. Carolina Wallin Pérez - Utan dina andetag
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Band of Horses
02. Familjen
03. Håkan Hellström
04. The Radio Dept.
05. The National
06. Shout Out Louds
07. jj
08. The Bear Quartet
09. Jonathan Johansson
10. Robyn
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This week's top 20 Swedish album chart:
01. Timoteij - Längtan
02. Titanix - Drömmar får liv
03. Scotts - Vi gör det igen
04. The Ark - In full regalia
05. Salem al Fakir - Ignore this
06. Anna von Hausswolff - Singing from the grave
07. Anna Bergendahl - Yours sincerely
08. Melissa Horn - Säg ingenting till mig
09. H.E.A.T - Freedom rock
10. Pain of Salvation - Road salt one
11. Mikael Wiehe - Ta det tillbaka!
12. Johnossi - Mavericks
13. Rolandz - Jajamen
14. Mojje - Att leka i finrummet
15. Cookies n Beans - Beg, borrow and steal
16. The Radio Dept. - Clinging to a scheme
17. John Norum - Play yard blues
18. Familjen - Mänskligheten
19. Dan Berglund - Tonbruket
20. Björn Skifs - Da capo
Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:
01. Familjen
02. The Radio Dept.
03. The National
04. Jens Lekman
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Anna von Hausswolff
07. The Bear Quartet
08. Robyn
09. Band of Horses
10. Shout Out Louds
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FamiljenThe opening of Familjen's "Mänskligheten" was enough to give me pause. Here is one of my favorite Scandinavian electronic artists and an album I've been looking forward to for a little while now, and the first track sounds like a lazy, bedroom remix of a forgettable '90s techno track. Even with the outstanding "När planeterna stannat" following quickly after the trainwreck of an opener, a bad taste was left in my mouth as the album progressed. What has always attracted to me to Familjen is the songwriting, the indiepop playfulness embedded into the electronic framework. This is lacking from an artist like Kleerup, who is great in his own right, but approaches electronic music with more of an affinity for the mainstream. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this tact, it's just not what I've come to expect from Familjen after falling for "Det snurrar i min skalle". "Mänskligheten" -- with the exceptions of "När planeterna stannat", "Man ser det från månen", "Viggo", and "Det var jag", the standouts in my opinion -- could act as the soundtrack to a film set in Ibiza. Is "Mänskligheten" a bad album? By no means. It's just that the clever songwriting that sold me on "Det snurrar i min skalle" is mostly sitting in the passenger seat on this particular journey.
- Lars Garvey Laing-Peterson
Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:
01. Enforcer - High roller
02. TALK 1
03. Robyn - Dancing on my own
04. The Amazing - And it looks like today
05. Årabrot - End of first chant: II
06. TALK 2
07. The Bombettes - Cherry shot
08. Underachiever - No rain (arson)
09. Lapko - Kiss 'n' cry
10. TALK 3
11. The Howard Way - Runaway
12. Familjen - Socker
13. Deathchain - The crawling chaos
14. Lågkonjunkturen - Den här låten handlar om...
15. TALK 4
16. Anna von Hausswolff - Track of time
17. Marit Bergman - Free falling
18. Jennie Abrahamson - I lost my heart
19. TALK 5
20. Menfolk - Rubato (con song)
Reminder: my show airs every week on Sundays and Mondays at 11pm ET on Sirius XMU. That's channel 26 on Sirius, 43 on XM and 831 for DirecTV subscribers.
