Top 10s for 2009: All Scandinavian

PopMatters reviews psych-rock revivalists The Works: http://popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/works-st2005.shtml

The Works
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Subliminal Sounds

This Stockholm band has close ties to Dungen, which comes as no surprise after a few listens to the dense psychedelia on this debut. Everything about it screams "1967"--the acid rock, the guitar sounds, the album art. Sometimes that's a good thing, like on opener "Everybody", with its rousing chorus and overall feeling of discovery but suitable restraint from solo excesses. The wide-eyed, booming "Speak your mind" is a good showcase for the vocal range of Andreas Stellan. Elsewhere though, hallmarks of bad psych-rock creep in: endless guitar noodling, straying from the melody, even a flute part! If you're into psych-rock and can accept the excesses mentioned above, The Works just might be for you.
- Matthew W. Smith

Dusted reviews Swedish retro psych act The Works: http://dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2175

Stylus reviews 60s revivalists The Works: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3011

GetLevitation talks about and posts some tracks from Swedish psych-rockers The Works: http://getlevitation.blogspot.com/2005/05/puttin-on-works.html

Also coming up from Subliminal Sounds is the debut album from fellow Swedish psych-rockers The Works. It comes out in April.

Subliminal Sounds, the label of current media darling Dungen, has signed The Works and will release their debut album sometime around February.

Recent Subliminal Sounds signees The Works have just started recording their debut album. They expect to have it ready in time for a late September release.

Dungen will be throwing a record release party for their new album "Ta det lugnt" at Klubb Spenat in Stockholm on June 16. Joining them on the bill will be folkpsyche band Lynx Lament and The Works. More info: http://www.subliminalsounds.se/