While you couldn't really say that Koko has a unique premise about it, you could quite comfortably declare that it sounds interesting -- an '80s pop elixir laced with electro tanginess and served up by the tongue of Dear Euphoria. Mmmm, tasty. The thing is that despite the potential here -- not least down to the unique and untouchable voice of Elina Johansson -- this debut full-length falls a good bit short of the mark in terms of retaining any initial interest. It just seems like second-rate, done-before, Swedish electropop that, while well enough executed, gets pretty tired pretty quickly. There's a thin air or pretension about "K.O." -- a feeling that a contrived effort to 'think outside the box' has been the main driving force of any kind of variation here. It's a shame, but at the end of the day -- whether contrived or authentic -- "K.O." just doesn't pack the punch it needs to render it essential. - John Norby
Another tune from the upcoming Vyn album, due out December 7 via /. If you dig pastoral rock like Björn Olsson or The Amazing, you'll dig this and hey -- Christoffer Gunrup from the latter band will be playing some acoustic songs at the release party on December 3 at Folkoperan in Stockholm.
has confirmed that Vyn, the instrumental duo of Magnus Josefsson (Blända) and Julia Heberling, will be releasing their debut album "Riksettan" on December 7.
The new David Fridlund album "Some day, eventually, in the future..." now has a release date: March 31 via . The first single is called "Diamonds & photographs".
Koko