Top tens for 2010: It's a Trap! Contributors

Monty - Orden

Out today via Hybris, the new Monty (nee Montt Mardié) single "Orden".

New Monty album coming

Monty (nee Montt Mardié) reports that he's already begun work on his second album, tentatively titled "Autokraten": http://www.entillhimmel.se/news/sommaren-2010/

Monty
2010
Hybris

David Pagmar is proving himself to be quite the prolific pop-artist, and with his new moniker Monty, he's at his most straightforward yet. The change of name is to signify his switch into his native language craft, and the focus found on past releases not wane at all -- in fact, it is up there with "Clocks" as his tightest set of songs. Like most of his releases (barring the aforementioned "Clocks"), "2010" took me a few listens to realize his accomplishment. As a reference point for Montt Mardié fans, this release has the feel of the world he created on "Metropolis" throughout the entire album, a mood piece so to speak, that hides itself in dimly-lit corners only to reveal itself as not an aspect to fear, but one to embrace. However that is not all, because on "2010" Pagmar is also embracing the listener in every track -- it's dank sparseness is an enveloper in an oddly comforting way.
- Matt Giordano

Top 10s for 2009: It's a Trap!

Chromewaves says Montt Mardié is best of 2009

Montt Mardié made it on Chromewaves' top albums list for 2009: http://www.chromewaves.net/2009/12/chromewaves-favourite-albums-of-2009/

Monty - En till himmel (video)

Here's the video for the new Monty (nee Montt Mardié på Svenska) single "En till himmel": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQs6bWN0Pqo

Monty - En till himmel

The new Monty (nee Montt Mardié, aka David Pagmar) single "En till himmel" is out now and it has its own website: http://www.entillhimmel.se/
David grows with every new release and this is no exception; I like it a lot. His debut album under his new name will be out March 10, 2010 via Hybris.

Debut Monty single next week

The new Monty (nee Montt Mardié) single "En till himmel" will be released on November 16 and features a guest appearance from rapper Lorentz of Lorentz and M. Sakarias.

Hybris: new website, new signing

Hybris have revamped their website: http://www.hybrism.com/
They've also announced that while Sibiria and Vapnet have joined forces to sing in English with Kommun, labelmate Montt Mardié has done the opposite: he's working on a new album in Swedish under the name Monty.

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Mew
02. Jenny Wilson
03. Kristofer Åström
04. Kent
05. Håkan Hellström
06. Montt Mardié
07. Love Is All
08. JJ
09. Sally Shapiro
10. The Bear Quartet

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This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Loney, Dear
02. The Fine Arts Showcase
03. Montt Mardié
04. Phoenix
05. The Bear Quartet
06. Frida Hyvönen
07. Detektivbyrån
08. Jens Lekman
09. Hello Saferide
10. Passion Pit

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Sirius playlist week #21

Here's the playlist for this week's radio show Sirius XMU:

01. TALK 1
02. Small - Sunshine lover
03. Samtidigt Som - Constant in motion
04. Ironville - Roses
05. Montt Mardié - Dancing shoes
06. TALK 2
07. Samuraj Cities - Spoonful of talk
08. Fronda - Discomusik
09. Billie the Vision & the Dancers - You'd better watch out, 'cause I like you
10. Robert Svensson - I was summer, you were
11. TALK 3
12. Florence Valentin - Spring ricco
13. Lacrosse - We are kids
14. Superfamily - Let's go dancing
15. TALK 4
16. Turboweekend - Trouble is
17. Dyno - Don't speak love
18. Cilihili and DaBook - Orinoco flow
19. TALK 5
20. High Hats - The end
21. Two White Horses - Good times are gone forever
22. Margaret Berger - Robot song
23. TALK 6

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.

Montt Mardié - We're all The Pirate Bay

Swedish pop artist Montt Mardié has written an anthem for The Pirate Bay and of course it's available for free download: http://thepiratebay.org/special/2009mmtpb.php

This week's Last.fm chart

Here is the It's a Trap! listening group top 10 artists of the week, unique to our group:

01. Anna Järvinen
02. Håkan Hellström
03. Camera Obscura
04. Bob Hund
05. Andreas Tilliander
06. Loney, Dear
07. Kent
08. The Fine Arts Showcase
09. Montt Mardié
10. Jens Lekman

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